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

MODIS VCF should not be used to detect discontinuities in tree cover due to binning bias. A comment on Hanan et al. (2014) and Staver and Hansen (2015)

(2017) France Gerard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Amazonian forest-savanna bistability and human impact

(2017) Bert Wuyts et al.   Nature Communications

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

(2016) T. R. Feldpausch et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

(2015) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

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

Analysis of stable states in global savannas: is the CART pulling the horse? - a comment

(2015) A. Carla Staver et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment

(2015) Paul Laris et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

New insights on palaeofires and savannisation in northern South America

(2015) Valentí Rull et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment

(2015) Paul Laris et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

Predicting the Effects of Woody Encroachment on Mammal Communities, Grazing Biomass and Fire Frequency in African Savannas

(2015) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   PLoS One

Fire in Australian savannas: from leaf to landscape

(2014) Jason Beringer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Anthropogenic fires and local livelihoods at Chyulu Hills, Kenya

(2014) Peter Ngugi Kamau et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Modelling Fire Frequency in a Cerrado Savanna Protected Area

(2014) Alfredo C. Pereira Júnior et al.   PLoS One

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

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

Analysis of stable states in global savannas: is the CART pulling the horse?

(2013) Niall P. Hanan et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses

(2013) D. V. Silverio et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

(2013) Mireia Torello-Raventos et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Rainfall, geology and landscape position generate large-scale spatiotemporal fire pattern heterogeneity in an African savanna

(2012) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Effects of fire regimes on herbaceous biomass and nutrient dynamics in the Brazilian savanna

(2012) Immaculada Oliveras et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

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

Temporal variability of forest fires in eastern Amazonia

(2011) Ane Alencar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree mortality following ENSO-associated fires and drought in lowland rain forests of Eastern Nicaragua

(2011) Íñigo Granzow-de la Cerda et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

(2011) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

(2011) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: a quasi-global estimate

(2011) J. Lloyd et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna

(2010) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2010) Salvador Pueyo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and the inter-annual variability of fire in southern Africa: a meta-analysis using long-term field data and satellite-derived burnt area data

(2010) S. Archibald et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Savanna fire regimes assessment with MODIS fire data: Their relationship to land cover and plant species distribution in western Burkina Faso (West Africa)

(2010) Jean-Louis Devineau et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effect of fires on soil nutrient availability in an open savanna in Central Brazil

(2010) Vânia Regina Pivello et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Tree diversity, composition, forest structure and aboveground biomass dynamics after single and repeated fire in a Bornean rain forest

(2008) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   OECOLOGIA

Impact of a drier Early-Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests

(2008) F. E Mayle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES