Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

(2011) Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age

(2011) I. C. Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: a quasi-global estimate

(2011) J. Lloyd et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna

(2010) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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 Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

Intrinsic water-use efficiency of temperate seminatural grassland has increased since 1857: an analysis of carbon isotope discrimination of herbage from the Park Grass Experiment

(2009) IRIS H. KÖHLER 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

Causes and consequences of woody plant encroachment into western North American grasslands

(2009) O.W. Van Auken   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years

(2009) Mark Pagani et al.   NATURE

Juggling carbon: allocation patterns of a dominant tree in a fire-prone savanna

(2009) Alexander Ernest Noel Schutz et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Fire in the Earth System

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

A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

(2008) LUCAS C. R. SILVA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global characterization of fire activity: toward defining fire regimes from Earth observation data

(2008) EMILIO CHUVIECO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disturbance, rainfall and contrasting species responses mediated aboveground biomass response to 11 years of CO2enrichment in a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem

(2008) TROY J. SEILER 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

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

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

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

(2007) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY