How to tell a shrub from a tree: A life-history perspective from a South African savanna

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

(2013) Steven I. Higgins 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

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Which trees dominate in savannas? The escape hypothesis and eucalypts in northern Australia

(2012) WILLIAM J. BOND et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Tree allometries reflect a lifetime of herbivory in an African savanna

(2011) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   ECOLOGY

Increased tree densities in South African savannas: >50 years of data suggests CO2 as a driver

(2011) R. Buitenwerf et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

A wide diversity of epicormic structures is present in Myrtaceae species in the northern Australian savanna biome – implications for adaptation to fire

(2010) G. E. Burrows et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna

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

Will a 385 million year-struggle for light become a struggle for water and for carbon? - How trees may cope with more frequent climate change-type drought events

(2010) HENRIK HARTMANN   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Contrasting demographics of tropical savanna and temperate forest eucalypts provide insight into how savannas and forests function. A case study usingCorymbia clarksonianafrom north-eastern Australia

(2009) PAUL R. WILLIAMS   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Thicket expansion in a South African savanna under divergent land use: local vs. global drivers?

(2009) BENJAMIN J. WIGLEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trade-offs in resource allocation that favour resprouting affect the competitive ability of woody seedlings in grassy communities

(2009) Peter J. Clarke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A hierarchical Bayesian approach for estimation of photosynthetic parameters of C3plants

(2009) LISA D. PATRICK et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Fire in the Earth System

(2009) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   SCIENCE

A demographic perspective on bush encroachment by Acacia karroo in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park, South Africa

(2008) DA Balfour et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

(2008) Xiaodong Zeng et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach

(2008) SIMON SCHEITER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Costs of persistence and the spread of competing seeders and sprouters

(2008) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY