How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe

Oak regeneration at the arid boundary of the temperate deciduous forest biome: insights from a seeding and watering experiment

(2021) László Erdős et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Planting trees to combat drought

(2021) Jessica C. A. Baker   Nature Geoscience

Decoupled heatwave-tree growth in large forest patches of Larix sibirica in northern Mongolian Plateau

(2021) Liang Shi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”

(2021) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Underground deserts below fertility islands? Woody species desiccate lower soil layers in sandy drylands

(2020) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

Per‐gram competitive effects and contrasting soil resource effects in grasses and woody plants

(2020) Scott D. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

(2020) Susan C. Cook-Patton et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of Extrazonal Steppes in the Southern Urals over a 20-year Period amid Climatic Changes

(2020) N. V. Zolotareva   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Prohibited, but still present: local and traditional knowledge about the practice and impact of forest grazing by domestic livestock in Hungary

(2020) Anna Varga et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Fine-Scale Microclimate Pattern in Forest-Steppe Habitat

(2020) Gabriella Süle et al.   Forests

The effects of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest–steppe mosaic

(2020) Gábor Ónodi et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant composition and diversity at edges in a semi-natural forest–grassland mosaic

(2019) László Erdős et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Recovery of species richness lags behind functional recovery in restored grasslands

(2019) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Threatened and specialist species suffer from increased wood cover and productivity in Swiss steppes

(2019) Steffen Boch et al.   FLORA

Rainfall interception of typical ecosystems in the Heihe River Basin: Based on high temporal resolution soil moisture data

(2019) Chongyao Yang et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

(2019) William J. Bond et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

(2019) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   SCIENCE

“A herder’s duty is to think”: landscape partitioning and folk habitats of Mongolian herders in a mountain forest steppe (Khuvsugul-Murun region)

(2019) B. Gantuya et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Postfire recruitment failure in Scots pine forests of southern Siberia

(2019) Kirsten Barrett et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest-steppes

(2018) László Erdős et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

(2018) Pawlok Dass et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Effects of grazing on grassland communities of the forest-steppe of northern Mongolia: A comparison of grazed versus ungrazed places

(2018) Seiki Takatsuki et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the tropics

(2018) Elmar M. Veenendaal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and human impact in the catchment basin of the Upper Oka River (Mid-Russian Uplands): A case study from the Orlovskoye Polesye National Park

(2018) Olga V. Rudenko et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems: Inference and Diagnosis

(2018) Zak Ratajczak et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon

(2018) Arie Staal et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of grazing on grassland communities of the forest-steppe of northern Mongolia: A comparison of grazed versus ungrazed places

(2018) Seiki Takatsuki et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

Habitat heterogeneity as a key to high conservation value in forest-grassland mosaics

(2018) László Erdős et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Resilience of tropical tree cover: The roles of climate, fire, and herbivory

(2018) Arie Staal et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sustainability of Forest Cover under Climate Change on the Temperate-Continental Xeric Limits

(2018) Csaba Mátyás et al.   Forests

Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems

(2018) Angelica Feurdean et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Humboldt and the reinvention of nature

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

Thermal states, responsiveness and degradation of marginal permafrost in Mongolia

(2018) Mamoru Ishikawa et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Tree–herb co-existence and community assembly in natural forest-steppe transitions

(2018) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The boreal–temperate forest ecotone response to climate change

(2017) Piers Evans et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Longitudinal changes in species composition of forests and grasslands across the North Asian forest steppe zone

(2017) Nikolay Lashchinskiy et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Vegetation dynamics and fire history at the southern boundary of the forest vegetation zone in European Russia during the middle and late Holocene

(2017) Elena Y Novenko et al.   HOLOCENE

Soils and fire jointly determine vegetation structure in an African savanna

(2017) A. Carla Staver et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Synergistic effects of the components of global change: Increased vegetation dynamics in open, forest-steppe grasslands driven by wildfires and year-to-year precipitation differences

(2017) Miklós Kertész et al.   PLoS One

Late Holocene vegetation, climate, human and fire history of the forest-steppe-ecosystem inferred from core G2-A in the ‘Altai Tavan Bogd’ conservation area in Mongolia

(2017) Julia Unkelbach et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The boreal–temperate forest ecotone response to climate change

(2017) Piers Evans et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

(2016) Karsten Wesche et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia

(2016) Immo Kämpf et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation history, climate and human impact in the forest-steppe ecotone of European Russia: new data and a regional synthesis

(2016) Elena Y. Novenko et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Factors threatening grassland specialist plants - A multi-proxy study on the vegetation of isolated grasslands

(2016) Balázs Deák et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Botanical and geographical characteristics of forest steppe of the Altai-Sayan mountain region

(2016) N. I. Makunina   Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Fire and climate in Mongolia (1532-2010 Common Era)

(2016) Amy E. Hessl et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Long-term forest resilience to climate change indicated by mortality, regeneration, and growth in semiarid southern Siberia

(2016) Chongyang Xu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Scale matters: fire-vegetation feedbacks are needed to explain tropical tree cover at the local scale

(2016) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Exposure-related forest-steppe: A diverse landscape type determined by topography and climate

(2016) Martin Hais et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes

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

Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

(2016) Joseph W. Veldman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fir decline and mortality in the southern Siberian Mountains

(2016) Viacheslav I. Kharuk et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands — A multi-taxa approach

(2016) Orsolya Valkó et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Vegetation history, recent dynamics and future prospects of a Hungarian sandy forest-steppe reserve: forest-grassland relations, tree species composition and size-class distribution

(2015) L. Erdős et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Soil-moisture conditions indicated by field-layer plants help identify vulnerable forests in the forest-steppe of semi-arid Southern Siberia

(2015) Oleg A. Anenkhonov et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

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

Hydraulic lift as a determinant of tree-grass coexistence on savannas

(2015) Kailiang Yu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Transitions between community complexes: a case study analysing gradients through mountain ridges in south Hungary

(2014) László Erdős et al.   ACTA BOTANICA CROATICA

Climatic effects on plant species distribution within the forest-steppe ecotone in northern China

(2014) Hongyan Liu et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Varied responses of forest at its distribution margin to Holocene monsoon development in northern China

(2014) Qian Hao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

(2013) Orsolya Valkó et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Temperate mountain grasslands: a climate-herbivore hypothesis for origins and persistence

(2013) Peter D. Weigl et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Habitat complexity of the Pannonian forest-steppe zone and its nature conservation implications

(2013) L. Erdős et al.   Ecological Complexity

Origin and history of grasslands in Central Europe - a review

(2013) M. Hejcman et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Contrasting responses of seedling and sapling densities to livestock density in the Mongolian forest-steppe

(2013) Mookhor Khishigjargal et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

(2013) A. Feurdean et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation responses to mid-Holocene extreme drought events and subsequent long-term drought on the southeastern Inner Mongolian Plateau, China

(2012) Yi Yin et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

Edge and land-use effects on epiphytic lichen diversity in the forest-steppe ecotone of the Mongolian Altai

(2012) Markus Hauck et al.   FLORA

Vegetation-microclimate feedbacks in woodland-grassland ecotones

(2012) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Topography-Controlled Soil Water Content and the Coexistence of Forest and Steppe in Northern China

(2012) Hongyan Liu et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Seedling emergence and establishment of Pinus sylvestris in the Mongolian forest-steppe ecotone

(2012) Choimaa Dulamsuren et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems

(2012) R. Alkemade et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire risk in Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) plantations under various temperature and wind conditions

(2011) Imre Cseresnyés et al.   ACTA BOTANICA CROATICA

Reconstructing fire history in central Mongolia from tree-rings

(2011) Amy E. Hessl et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

The frequency of forest fires in Scots pine stands of Tuva, Russia

(2010) G A Ivanova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Holocene persistence of wooded steppe in the Great Hungarian Plain

(2010) E.K. Magyari et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ground vegetation in the Mongolian taiga forest-steppe ecotone does not offer evidence for the human origin of grasslands

(2009) Ch. Dulamsuren et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Performance of Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila) on steppe slopes of the northern Mongolian mountain taiga: Drought stress and herbivory in mature trees

(2009) Choimaa Dulamsuren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The effects of climate, permafrost and fire on vegetation change in Siberia in a changing climate

(2009) N M Tchebakova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Climate change in Inner Mongolia from 1955 to 2005—trends at regional, biome and local scales

(2009) N Lu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

An idealized model for tree–grass coexistence in savannas: the role of life stage structure and fire disturbances

(2009) Mara Baudena et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Experimental warming does not enhance soil respiration in a semiarid temperate forest-steppe ecosystem

(2008) E. Lellei-Kovács et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Water relations and photosynthetic performance in Larix sibirica growing in the forest-steppe ecotone of northern Mongolia

(2008) C. Dulamsuren et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Effects of insect herbivory on the performance of Larix sibirica in a forest-steppe ecotone

(2007) Markus Hauck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory

(2007) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY