What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2011) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando 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

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

Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   Nature Communications

Humid tropical rain forest has expanded into eucalypt forest and savanna over the last 50 years

(2011) David Y. P. Tng et al.   Ecology and Evolution

How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness

(2011) Michael J. Lawes et al.   Ecosphere

Using generalized autoregressive error models to understand fire-vegetation-soil feedbacks in a mulga-spinifex landscape mosaic

(2010) Brett P. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Has global environmental change caused monsoon rainforests to expand in the Australian monsoon tropics?

(2010) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Do nutrient-poor soils inhibit development of forests? A nutrient stock analysis

(2010) William J. Bond   PLANT AND SOIL

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

(2010) D. B. McWethy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

(2010) S.D. Mooney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Measuring Woody Encroachment along a Forest–Savanna Boundary in Central Africa

(2009) E. T. A. Mitchard et al.   Earth Interactions

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

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

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

Frequent fires reduce tree growth in northern Australian savannas: implications for tree demography and carbon sequestration

(2009) BRETT P. MURPHY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Using carbon isotope analysis of the diet of two introduced Australian megaherbivores to understand Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions

(2009) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Livistona palms in Australia: Ancient relics or opportunistic immigrants?

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Fire in the Earth System

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

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

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

(2008) SIMON SCHEITER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Alternative stable states in Australia’s Wet Tropics: a theoretical framework for the field data and a field-case for the theory

(2008) Laura Warman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY