Soils and fire jointly determine vegetation structure in an African savanna

Fire prevents woody encroachment only at higher-than-historical frequencies in a South African savanna

(2016) Madelon F. Case et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pre-rain green-up is ubiquitous across southern tropical Africa: implications for temporal niche separation and model representation

(2016) Casey M. Ryan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transpiration dynamics support resource partitioning in African savanna trees and grasses

(2015) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   ECOLOGY

Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas

(2015) Jesse B. Nippert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How does clay constrain woody biomass in drylands?

(2015) Roderick J. Fensham et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree–grass competition varies across select savanna tree species: a potential role for rooting depth

(2015) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Modelling Water Uptake Provides a New Perspective on Grass and Tree Coexistence

(2015) Michael G. Mazzacavallo et al.   PLoS One

A quantitative description of the interspecies diversity of belowground structure in savanna woody plants

(2015) Frances C. O'Donnell et al.   Ecosphere

Spatially explicit structural equation modeling

(2014) Eric G. Lamb et al.   ECOLOGY

Coexistence and environmental filtering of species-specific biomass in an African savanna

(2014) Matthew S. Colgan et al.   ECOLOGY

Is there a ‘browse trap’? Dynamics of herbivore impacts on trees and grasses in an African savanna

(2014) Ann Carla Staver et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

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

Influence of competition and rainfall manipulation on the growth responses of savanna trees and grasses

(2013) Edmund C. February et al.   ECOLOGY

Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna

(2013) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Revisiting the Two-Layer Hypothesis: Coexistence of Alternative Functional Rooting Strategies in Savannas

(2013) Ricardo M. Holdo   PLoS One

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Biomass partitioning and root morphology of savanna trees across a water gradient

(2012) Kyle W. Tomlinson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique

(2012) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evaluating Ecohydrological Theories of Woody Root Distribution in the Kalahari

(2012) Abinash Bhattachan et al.   PLoS One

An assessment of the implementation and outcomes of recent changes to fire management in the Kruger National Park

(2012) Brian W. Van Wilgen et al.   KOEDOE

Tree allometries reflect a lifetime of herbivory in an African savanna

(2011) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   ECOLOGY

Simply the best: the transition of savanna saplings to trees

(2011) Julia L. Wakeling et al.   OIKOS

Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa

(2011) S. P. Good et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems

(2010) James B. Grace et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

The distribution of tree and grass roots in savannas in relation to soil nitrogen and water

(2010) E.C. February et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The influence of increasing population size and vegetation productivity on elephant distribution in the Kruger National Park

(2009) KIM D. YOUNG et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Grazing and landscape controls on nitrogen availability across 330 South African savanna sites

(2009) JOSEPH M. CRAINE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Grass competition suppresses savanna tree growth across multiple demographic stages

(2009) Corinna Riginos   ECOLOGY

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

Growth of N2-fixing African savanna Acacia species is constrained by below-ground competition with grass

(2009) Michael D. Cramer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Juggling carbon: allocation patterns of a dominant tree in a fire-prone savanna

(2009) Alexander Ernest Noel Schutz et al.   OECOLOGIA

Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas

(2009) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Do Fires in Savannas Consume Woody Biomass? A Comment on Approaches to Modeling Savanna Dynamics

(2008) Niall P. Hanan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Effects of Herbivory, Fire and N2-fixation on Nutrient Limitation in a Humid African Savanna

(2008) Patrick G. Cech et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Stem mortality of Acacia nigrescens induced by the synergistic effects of elephants and fire in Kruger National Park, South Africa

(2008) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

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

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