Resilience of tropical tree cover: The roles of climate, fire, and herbivory

Edge fires drive the shape and stability of tropical forests

(2018) Laurent Hébert-Dufresne et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Not only trees: Grasses determine African tropical biome distributions via water limitation and fire

(2018) Donatella D'Onofrio et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

(2018) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   PLoS One

Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon

(2018) Arie Staal et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate models predict increasing temperature variability in poor countries

(2018) Sebastian Bathiany et al.   Science Advances

Global patterns of drought recovery

(2017) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   NATURE

Floodplains as an Achilles’ heel of Amazonian forest resilience

(2017) Bernardo M. Flores et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A human-driven decline in global burned area

(2017) N. Andela et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonian forest-savanna bistability and human impact

(2017) Bert Wuyts et al.   Nature Communications

Rare, Intense, Big fires dominate the global tropics under drier conditions

(2017) Stijn Hantson et al.   Scientific Reports

Interpreting woody cover data in tropical and subtropical areas: Comparison between the equilibrium and the non-equilibrium assumption

(2016) Francesco Accatino et al.   Ecological Complexity

Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states

(2016) Chi Xu et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatially Explicit Modeling in Ecology: A Review

(2016) Donald L. DeAngelis et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Bistability, Spatial Interaction, and the Distribution of Tropical Forests and Savannas

(2016) Arie Staal et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire-vegetation feedback

(2016) G. Lasslop et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Scale matters: fire-vegetation feedbacks are needed to explain tropical tree cover at the local scale

(2016) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa

(2016) Sally Archibald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

(2016) Joseph W. Veldman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Do You Mean, ‘Tipping Point’?

(2016) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Synergistic effects of drought and deforestation on the resilience of the south-eastern Amazon rainforest

(2015) Arie Staal et al.   Ecological Complexity

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

(2015) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The need for a consistent fire policy for Cerrado conservation

(2015) Giselda Durigan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Projected strengthening of Amazonian dry season by constrained climate model simulations

(2015) Juan P. Boisier et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global fire size distribution is driven by human impact and climate

(2014) Stijn Hantson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Implications of the spatial dynamics of fire spread for the bistability of savanna and forest

(2014) E. Schertzer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Tree Cover Bimodality in Savannas and Forests Emerging from the Switching between Two Fire Dynamics

(2014) Carlo De Michele et al.   PLoS One

Mapping the Global Distribution of Livestock

(2014) Timothy P. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Exploring the tug of war between positive and negative interactions among savanna trees: Competition, dispersal, and protection from fire

(2013) Flora S. Bacelar et al.   Ecological Complexity

Humid savanna–forest dynamics: A matrix model with vegetation–fire interactions and seasonality

(2013) Francesco Accatino et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

(2013) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY

Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data

(2013) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The lanky and the corky: fire-escape strategies in savanna woody species

(2013) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns of the seasonal response of tropical rainfall to global warming

(2013) Ping Huang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

(2013) Milena Holmgren et al.   Nature Climate Change

Integrating Theoretical Climate and Fire Effects on Savanna and Forest Systems

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy 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

Grass feedbacks on fire stabilize savannas

(2011) Brian Beckage et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Decreases in Fire Spread Probability with Forest Age Promotes Alternative Community States, Reduced Resilience to Climate Variability and Large Fire Regime Shifts

(2011) Thomas Kitzberger et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

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

Rainfall-Tuned Management Facilitates Dry Forest Recovery

(2011) Judith Sitters et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

(2011) Jon E. Keeley et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire

(2010) Salvador Pueyo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Tree topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of savanna–forest boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil

(2009) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Selective logging and fire as drivers of alien grass invasion in a Bolivian tropical dry forest

(2009) J.W. Veldman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pulse-Driven Loss of Top-Down Control: The Critical-Rate Hypothesis

(2008) Marten Scheffer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics

(2008) Guido R. van der Werf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia

(2008) L. E. O.C Aragao et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product

(2008) D.P. Roy et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

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