Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

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

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

A Physical-Based Cellular Automaton Model for Forest-Fire Propagation

(2011) A. Collin et al.   COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and hardwood dynamics in a fire-maintained ecosystem: A simulation approach

(2011) E.L. Loudermilk et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

(2011) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Distinct roles of savanna and forest tree species in regeneration under fire suppression in a Brazilian savanna

(2011) Erika L. Geiger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Alternative stable states and the role of fire–vegetation–soil feedbacks in the temperate wilderness of southwest Tasmania

(2011) Sam W. Wood et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Simply the best: the transition of savanna saplings to trees

(2011) Julia L. Wakeling et al.   OIKOS

Bark thickness determines fire resistance of selected tree species from fire-prone tropical savanna in north Australia

(2011) Michael J. Lawes et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa

(2011) S. P. Good et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Newly discovered landscape traps produce regime shifts in wet forests

(2011) D. B. Lindenmayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Spatial-temporal distribution of fire-protected savanna physiognomies in Southeastern Brazil

(2010) Marcelo H.O. Pinheiro et al.   ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS

TURNER REVIEW No. 19. Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

(2010) Jeremy J. Midgley et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

How does fire intensity and frequency affect miombo woodland tree populations and biomass?

(2010) Casey M. Ryan 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

Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

(2010) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Experimental evidence that fire causes a tree recruitment bottleneck in an Australian tropical savanna

(2010) Lynda D. Prior et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America

(2010) Marina Hirota et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Allocation to leaf area and sapwood area affects water relations of co-occurring savanna and forest trees

(2010) Sybil G. Gotsch et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2010) William J. Bond   PLANT AND SOIL

Not all forests are expanding over central Brazilian savannas

(2010) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Vegetation, Fire, and Feedbacks: A Disturbance‐Mediated Model of Savannas

(2009) Brian Beckage et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo 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

Differences in growth patterns between co-occurring forest and savanna trees affect the forest-savanna boundary

(2009) Davi Rodrigo Rossatto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Establishment and early persistence of tree seedlings in an annually burned savanna

(2009) Jacques Gignoux et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fire feedbacks facilitate invasion of pine savannas by Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius)

(2009) Jens T. Stevens et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Do Fires in Savannas Consume Woody Biomass? A Comment on Approaches to Modeling Savanna Dynamics

(2008) Niall P. Hanan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

(2008) LUCAS C. R. SILVA 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

Drought-induced tree death in savanna

(2008) R. J. FENSHAM 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

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

(2008) J. Barlow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forest expansion and grassland contraction within a Eucalyptus savanna matrix between 1941 and 1994 at Litchfield National Park in the Australian monsoon tropics

(2003) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

(2003) Kirsten Thonicke et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY