Shared Drivers but Divergent Ecological Responses: Insights from Long-Term Experiments in Mesic Savanna Grasslands

Functional differences between dominant grasses drive divergent responses to large herbivore loss in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

(2015) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna

(2014) Felicia Keesing et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands

(2014) Sally E. Koerner et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa

(2014) Sally E. Koerner et al.   ECOLOGY

Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

(2014) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa

(2014) Stephanie Eby et al.   OECOLOGIA

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

(2013) Hillary S. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities

(2013) Kevin P. Kirkman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to fire and grazing

(2013) Sally E. Koerner et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis: A need for well-defined usage in ecology and conservation biology

(2013) Daniela Vetter et al.   Ecosphere

Habitat selection by large herbivores in a southern African savanna: the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces

(2013) Deron E. Burkepile et al.   Ecosphere

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing

(2012) A. K. Knapp et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

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

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

Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie

(2011) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Evidence for top predator control of a grazing ecosystem

(2010) Douglas A. Frank   OIKOS

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores: comparing consequences in a South African and a North American grassland

(2009) Catherine E. Burns et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production in Mesic Savanna Grasslands: An Inter-Hemispheric Comparison

(2009) Greg M. Buis et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large African herbivores decrease herbaceous plant biomass while increasing plant species richness in a semi-arid savanna toposequence

(2008) Shayne M. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS