Alternative biome states challenge the modelling of species' niche shifts under climate change

On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology

(2021) Giovanni Poggiato et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

(2021) Pieter De Frenne et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dry corridors opened by fire and low CO2 in Amazonian rainforest during the Last Glacial Maximum

(2021) Hiromitsu Sato et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rainforest expansion reduces understorey plant diversity and density in open forest of eastern Australia

(2020) Andrew G. Baker et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Alternative Biome States in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2020) Juli G. Pausas et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Tropical tree size–frequency distributions from airborne lidar

(2020) António Ferraz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Strangers in a strange land: globally unusual thermal tolerance in Collembola from the Cape Floristic Region

(2020) W.P. Amy Liu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Megafauna biogeography explains plant functional trait variability in the tropics

(2020) Vinicius L. Dantas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

An operational definition of the biome for global change research

(2020) Timo Conradi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages

(2020) Cédrique L. Solofondranohatra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

(2020) Florian Zellweger et al.   SCIENCE

On the Three Major Recycling Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2020) Juli G. Pausas et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources

(2020) R. Valbuena et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A new system to classify global climate zones based on plant physiology and using high temporal resolution climate data

(2020) Alexandra S. Gardner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The diversity of post‐fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer

(2020) Natashi A. L. Pilon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flammability thresholds or flammability gradients? Determinants of fire across savanna–forest transitions

(2020) Brooklynn M. Newberry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover

(2020) Natashi A. L. Pilon et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

sP lot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

(2019) Helge Bruelheide et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels

(2019) Anna Norberg et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Rewilding complex ecosystems

(2019) Andrea Perino et al.   SCIENCE

Does a tradeoff between trait plasticity and resource conservatism contribute to the maintenance of alternative stable states?

(2019) Simon C. Power et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecology and biogeography in 3D: The case of the Australian Proteaceae

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Steal the light: shade vs fire adapted vegetation in forest-savanna mosaics

(2018) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Unearthing belowground bud banks in fire-prone ecosystems

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

(2018) Elise Buisson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Are forest-shrubland mosaics of the Cape Floristic Region an example of alternate stable states?

(2018) Michael D. Cramer et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Incorporating microclimate into species distribution models

(2018) Jonas Lembrechts et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

(2018) Zeqing Ma et al.   NATURE

Responses of ant communities to disturbance: Five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of a globally dominant faunal group

(2018) Alan N. Andersen   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Humboldt and the reinvention of nature

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biome: evolution of a crucial ecological and biogeographical concept

(2018) Ladislav Mucina   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire frequency filters species by bark traits in a savanna-forest mosaic

(2017) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The influence of forest/grassland proportion on the species composition, diversity and natural values of an eastern Austrian forest-steppe

(2017) L. Erdős et al.   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire-vegetation feedback

(2016) G. Lasslop et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Experimental evidence for heat plume-induced cavitation and xylem deformation as a mechanism of rapid post-fire tree mortality

(2016) Adam G. West et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future

(2016) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes

(2016) Brett P. Murphy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spiny plants, mammal browsers, and the origin of African savannas

(2016) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

Fossil evidence for open, Proteaceae-dominated heathlands and fire in the Late Cretaceous of Australia

(2015) Raymond J. Carpenter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

(2015) Gerhard E. Overbeck et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

(2015) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

(2015) Joseph W Veldman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The need for a consistent fire policy for Cerrado conservation

(2015) Giselda Durigan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central-eastern Europe)

(2015) Angelica Feurdean et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bud protection: a key trait for species sorting in a forest-savanna mosaic

(2015) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Feedbacks and landscape-level vegetation dynamics

(2015) David M.J.S. Bowman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology

(2015) David I. Warton et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Future of African terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems under anthropogenic climate change

(2015) Guy F. Midgley et al.   Nature Climate Change

How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain

(2014) Reed F. Noss et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps

(2014) Diego Nieto-Lugilde et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts

(2014) Zak Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

Bark thickness and fire regime

(2014) Juli G. Pausas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Is climate an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the Eastern United States?

(2014) Gregory J. Nowacki et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Savanna fire and the origins of the ‘underground forests’ of Africa

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

(2013) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY

Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: a savanna/forest contrast

(2013) Michael J. Lawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Increasing atmospheric CO2overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa

(2013) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire weather risk differs across rain forest-savanna boundaries in the humid tropics of north-eastern Australia

(2012) JEREMY K. LITTLE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat 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

A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic data suggest a natural prehuman origin of open habitats in northern Madagascar and question the deforestation narrative in this region

(2012) E. Quemere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fuels or microclimate? Understanding the drivers of fire feedbacks at savanna-forest boundaries

(2011) WILLIAM A. HOFFMANN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Contribution of disturbance to distribution and abundance in a fire-adapted system

(2011) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Alternative stable states and the role of fire–vegetation–soil feedbacks in the temperate wilderness of southwest Tasmania

(2011) Sam W. Wood et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

(2010) Don A. Driscoll et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: variable selection and scale

(2010) Mike P. Austin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic DNA Sequences from Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth Reveal Deep Speciation of Forest and Savanna Elephants

(2010) Nadin Rohland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Critical need for new definitions of “forest” and “forest degradation” in global climate change agreements

(2009) Nophea Sasaki et al.   Conservation Letters

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics