Spatial structure in protected forest‐grassland mosaics: Exploring futures under climate change

A local optimization framework for addressing conservation conflicts in mosaic ecosystems

(2019) Shane Nowack et al.   PLoS One

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

(2018) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   PLoS One

Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa

(2018) Z. S. Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Transient phenomena in ecology

(2018) Alan Hastings et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonian forest-savanna bistability and human impact

(2017) Bert Wuyts et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanisms of shrub encroachment into Northern Chihuahuan Desert grasslands and impacts of climate change investigated using a cellular automata model

(2016) Domenico Caracciolo et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Bistability, Spatial Interaction, and the Distribution of Tropical Forests and Savannas

(2016) Arie Staal et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The future distribution of the savannah biome: model-based and biogeographic contingency

(2016) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Alternative stable states and the sustainability of forests, grasslands, and agriculture

(2016) Kirsten A. Henderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants

(2015) Owen L. Petchey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Revision of the EPICA Dome C CO2 record from 800 to 600 kyr before present

(2015) Bernhard Bereiter et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Topographic and Bioclimatic Determinants of the Occurrence of Forest and Grassland in Tropical Montane Forest-Grassland Mosaics of the Western Ghats, India

(2015) Arundhati Das et al.   PLoS One

Resilience of Alternative States in Spatially Extended Ecosystems

(2015) Ingrid A. van de Leemput et al.   PLoS One

Landowner perceptions of the value of natural forest and natural grassland in a mosaic ecosystem in southern Brazil

(2015) Kirsten A. Henderson et al.   Sustainability Science

Feedbacks between vegetation and disturbance processes promote long-term persistence of forest–grassland mosaics in south Brazil

(2014) Carolina Casagrande Blanco et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Distribution mapping of world grassland types

(2014) A. P. Dixon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Implications of the spatial dynamics of fire spread for the bistability of savanna and forest

(2014) E. Schertzer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

(2014) N. L. Stephenson et al.   NATURE

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

(2014) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Nature Communications

Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data

(2013) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The global fire-productivity relationship

(2013) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

At Risk of Population Decline? An Ecological and Genetic Approach to the Threatened Palm Species Butia eriospatha (Arecaceae) of Southern Brazil

(2013) Alison G. Nazareno et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes

(2013) Jianguo Wu   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems

(2013) Clinton Innes et al.   Scientific Reports

Integrating Theoretical Climate and Fire Effects on Savanna and Forest Systems

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

(2011) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Mechanisms of Araucaria (Atlantic) Forest Expansion into Southern Brazilian Grasslands

(2011) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire

(2010) Salvador Pueyo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change vulnerability of forest biodiversity: climate and competition tracking of demographic rates

(2010) JAMES S. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree–grass co-existence in savanna: Interactions of rain and fire

(2010) Francesco Accatino et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America

(2010) Marina Hirota et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modelling responses of pine savannas to climate change and large-scale disturbance

(2009) Brian Beckage et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

(2009) Milton Cezar Ribeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna

(2009) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of savanna–forest boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil

(2009) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Future change of temperature and precipitation extremes in South America as derived from the PRECIS regional climate modeling system

(2009) J. A. Marengo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics

(2008) Guido R. van der Werf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Spatio-temporal patterns of tree community dynamics in a tropical forest fragment in South-east Brazil

(2008) Pedro Higuchi et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Seed predation of Araucaria angustifolia (Araucariaceae) in the Brazilian Araucaria Forest: influence of deposition site and comparative role of small and ‘large’ mammals

(2008) Graziela Iob et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE