Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts

Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

(2013) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evidence of Physiological Decoupling from Grassland Ecosystem Drivers by an Encroaching Woody Shrub

(2013) Jesse B. Nippert et al.   PLoS One

A test of critical thresholds and their indicators in a desertification-prone ecosystem: more resilience than we thought

(2012) Brandon T. Bestelmeyer 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

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root characteristics of C4 grasses limit reliance on deep soil water in tallgrass prairie

(2012) Jesse B. Nippert et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comment on "Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions"

(2012) Z. Ratajczak et al.   SCIENCE

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

(2012) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

(2011) Zakary Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie

(2011) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie

(2011) Zak Ratajczak et al.   Ecosphere

Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

(2010) Alan Hastings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

(2010) Adriaan J. Teuling et al.   Nature Geoscience

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT