How resilient are African woodlands to disturbance from shifting cultivation?

Effects of cropping and short-natural fallow rotation on soil organic carbon in the Eastern Province of Zambia

(2014) Kaori Ando et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Recovery and resilience of tropical forests after disturbance

(2014) Lydia E. S. Cole et al.   Nature Communications

Pseudoreplication in Tropical Forests and the Resulting Effects on Biodiversity Conservation

(2013) BENJAMIN S. RAMAGE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Floristic composition, species diversity and carbon storage in charcoal and agriculture fallows and management implications in Miombo woodlands of Zambia

(2013) Felix Kanungwe Kalaba et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Allometric models for prediction of above- and belowground biomass of trees in the miombo woodlands of Tanzania

(2013) Wilson Ancelm Mugasha et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Land use and management effects on soil organic matter fractions in Rhodic Ferralsols and Haplic Arenosols in Bindura and Shamva districts of Zimbabwe

(2013) L. Mujuru et al.   GEODERMA

Which traits determine shifts in the abundance of tree species in a fire-prone savanna?

(2013) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Organic Carbon Dynamics in Different Soil Types After Conversion of Forest to Agriculture

(2013) T. B. Bruun et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Carbon Stocks in an African Woodland Landscape: Spatial Distributions and Scales of Variation

(2012) Emily Woollen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Carbon storage in successional and plantation forest soils: a tropical analysis

(2012) Erika Marín-Spiotta et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

(2012) Nathalie van Vliet et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

(2012) R. K. Colwell et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition

(2012) Daisy H. Dent et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Measured and modelled leaf and stand-scale productivity across a soil moisture gradient and a severe drought

(2012) J. K. WRIGHT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Above- and Belowground Carbon Stocks in a Miombo Woodland Landscape of Mozambique

(2011) Casey M. Ryan et al.   BIOTROPICA

The effects of cultivation history on forest recovery in fallows in the Eastern Arc Mountain, Tanzania

(2011) Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Quantifying small-scale deforestation and forest degradation in African woodlands using radar imagery

(2011) Casey M. Ryan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo

(2010) Nicholas J. Berry et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Saving Slash-and-Burn to Save Biodiversity

(2010) Christine Padoch et al.   BIOTROPICA

How does fire intensity and frequency affect miombo woodland tree populations and biomass?

(2010) Casey M. Ryan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Using DNA to assess errors in tropical tree identifications: How often are ecologists wrong and when does it matter?

(2010) Kyle G. Dexter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis

(2010) AXEL DON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

African exception to drivers of deforestation

(2010) Brendan Fisher   Nature Geoscience

Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city

(2010) A. Ahrends et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lability of soil organic carbon in tropical soils with different clay minerals

(2010) Thilde Bech Bruun et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The future of tropical species in secondary forests: A quantitative review

(2009) Daisy H. Dent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

(2009) Frans Bongers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Forest recovery after swidden cultivation across a 40-year chronosequence in the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil

(2009) Daniel Piotto et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Savanna burning and the assessment of long-term fire experiments with particular reference to Zimbabwe

(2009) Peter A. Furley et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Trends in shifting cultivation and the REDD mechanism

(2009) Ole Mertz   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient

(2008) Joseph M. Kimetu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Soil organic matter dynamics during 80 years of reforestation of tropical pastures

(2008) ERIKA MARIN-SPIOTTA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The role of dispersal ability, climate and spatial separation in shaping biogeographical patterns of phylogenetically distant plant groups in seasonally dry Andean forests of Bolivia

(2008) Reynaldo Linares-Palomino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Carbon sequestration and biodiversity of re-growing miombo woodlands in Mozambique

(2007) M. Williams et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT