Contrasting architecture of key African and Australian savanna tree taxa drives intercontinental structural divergence

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

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

How Was the Australian Flora Assembled Over the Last 65 Million Years? A Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective

(2013) Michael D. Crisp et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Buds, bushfires and resprouting in the eucalypts

(2013) G. E. Burrows   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phylogenetic position and revised classification ofAcacia s.l.(Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in Africa, including new combinations inVachelliaandSenegalia

(2013) Bruce Kyalangalilwa et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Which traits determine shifts in the abundance of tree species in a fire-prone savanna?

(2013) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2013) Justin Dohn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: a savanna/forest contrast

(2013) Michael J. Lawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Increasing atmospheric CO2overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa

(2013) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Which trees dominate in savannas? The escape hypothesis and eucalypts in northern Australia

(2012) WILLIAM J. BOND et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s.l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)

(2012) Joseph T. Miller et al.   AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Bayesian models for comparative analysis integrating phylogenetic uncertainty

(2012) Pierre de Villemereuil et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Setbacks to shoot growth are common in woody plants, so how are shoots of some species safer than others?

(2012) Don W. Butler et al.   ECOLOGY

Top-down determinants of niche structure and adaptation among African Acacias

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carbon Stocks in an African Woodland Landscape: Spatial Distributions and Scales of Variation

(2012) Emily Woollen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Soil water balance performs better than climatic water variables in tree species distribution modelling

(2012) Christian Piedallu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

(2012) L. Banin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tree allometries reflect a lifetime of herbivory in an African savanna

(2011) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Safety and streamlining of woody shoots in wind: an empirical study across 39 species in tropical Australia

(2011) Don W. Butler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

A wide diversity of epicormic structures is present in Myrtaceae species in the northern Australian savanna biome – implications for adaptation to fire

(2010) G. E. Burrows 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

The evolutionary history and biogeography of Mimosoideae (Leguminosae): An emphasis on African acacias

(2010) Yanis Bouchenak-Khelladi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments

(2010) Olivier Flores et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Savanna burning and the assessment of long-term fire experiments with particular reference to Zimbabwe

(2009) Peter A. Furley et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Climate change mitigation through afforestation/reforestation: A global analysis of hydrologic impacts with four case studies

(2008) Antonio Trabucco et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS