Walter’s two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

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

Evolutionary context for understanding and manipulating plant responses to past, present and future atmospheric [CO2]

(2012) A. D. B. Leakey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Water sourcing by trees in a mesic savanna: Responses to severing deep and shallow roots

(2011) Richard J.T. Verweij et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Unravelling the limits to tree height: a major role for water and nutrient trade-offs

(2011) Michael D. Cramer   OECOLOGIA

Coexistence of a C4 grass and a leaf succulent shrub in an arid ecosystem. The relationship between rooting depth, water and nitrogen

(2011) Edmund Carl February et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The stability of African savannas: insights from the indirect estimation of the parameters of a dynamic model

(2010) Steven I. Higgins et al.   ECOLOGY

Understanding plant rooting patterns in semi-arid systems: an integrated model analysis of climate, soil type and plant biomass

(2010) Mark T. van Wijk   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A depth-controlled tracer technique measures vertical, horizontal and temporal patterns of water use by trees and grasses in a subtropical savanna

(2010) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A resource ratio model of the effects of changes in CO2 on woody plant invasion

(2010) David Ward   PLANT ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between grass and succulent shrubs at the ecotone between an arid grassland and succulent shrubland in the Karoo

(2010) Ndafuda Shiponeni et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

What are the effects of substrate and grass removal on recruitment of Acacia mellifera seedlings in a semi-arid environment?

(2010) David Ward et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Do Acacia and Tamarix trees compete for water in the Negev desert?

(2009) A.A. Sher et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Which of these continents is not like the other? Comparisons of tropical savanna systems: key questions and challenges

(2009) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Woody-grass ratios in a grassy arid system are limited by multi-causal interactions of abiotic constraint, competition and fire

(2009) Catherine E. M. Nano et al.   OECOLOGIA

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Rooting depth and above-ground community composition in Kalahari sand woodlands in western Zimbabwe

(2008) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Unravelling below-ground plant distributions: a real-time polymerase chain reaction method for quantifying species proportions in mixed root samples

(2008) L. MOMMER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Seasonal patterns in depth of water uptake under contrasting annual and perennial systems in the Corn Belt Region of the Midwestern U.S.

(2008) H. Asbjornsen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Seasonal changes in depth of water uptake for encroaching trees Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa and two dominant C4 grasses in a semiarid grassland

(2008) K. D. Eggemeyer et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species

(2007) Katrin M. Meyer et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS