Ecological legacies of civil war: 35-year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large-mammal declines

Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade

(2015) Adam T. Ford et al.   ECOLOGY

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events

(2015) Samuel B. Fey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes

(2014) Tim G O'Connor et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

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

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

(2014) R. M. Pringle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Elephants facilitate impact of large predators on small ungulate prey species

(2013) Craig J. Tambling et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security

(2013) Justin Sheffield et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

(2013) Hillary S. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF 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

Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community across a Rainfall Gradient: The UHURU Experiment

(2013) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   PLoS One

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

(2013) Milena Holmgren et al.   Nature Climate Change

Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change-induced biome switch

(2012) Catherine L. Parr et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

(2012) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing the red edge channel for improving land-use classifications based on high-resolution multi-spectral satellite data

(2012) Christian Schuster et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Changes in bird communities in Swaziland savannas between 1998 and 2008 owing to shrub encroachment

(2011) Clelia Sirami et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing

(2010) S. Archibald et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Stream invertebrate responses to a catastrophic decline in consumer diversity

(2010) Checo Colón-Gaud et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Application of Object Based Classification and High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Savanna Ecosystem Analysis

(2010) Cerian Gibbes et al.   Remote Sensing

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

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

Grazers, browsers, and fire influence the extent and spatial pattern of tree cover in the Serengeti

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sample size determination for image classification accuracy assessment and comparison

(2009) Giles M. Foody   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Quantifying historical changes in habitat availability for endangered species: use of pixel- and object-based remote sensing

(2009) Robert M. Pringle et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Changes in Stream Primary Producer Communities Resulting from Large-Scale Catastrophic Amphibian Declines: Can Small-Scale Experiments Predict Effects of Tadpole Loss?

(2008) Scott Connelly et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of African Elephants on Savanna Vegetation

(2008) Robert Guldemond et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges

(2008) G. Wittemyer et al.   SCIENCE

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

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