Large herbivores promote habitat specialization and beta diversity of African savanna trees

Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering by megaherbivores

(2016) Tyler C. Coverdale et al.   ECOLOGY

Does primary productivity modulate the indirect effects of large herbivores? A global meta-analysis

(2016) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Mammal Browsers and Rainfall AffectAcaciaLeaf Nutrient Content, Defense, and Growth in South African Savannas

(2015) Benjamin J. Wigley et al.   BIOTROPICA

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

(2015) Hillary S. Young et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade

(2015) Adam T. Ford et al.   ECOLOGY

Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savanna

(2015) Robert M. Pringle et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL 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

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Plant and small-mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in an African savanna: five years of the UHURU experiment

(2014) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   ECOLOGY

Colonisation and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilisation parasitism in ant-plant symbioses

(2014) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Disentangling the drivers of context-dependent plant-animal interactions

(2014) John L. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Generalities in grazing and browsing ecology: using across-guild comparisons to control contingencies

(2014) Johan T. du Toit et al.   OECOLOGIA

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

(2014) R. M. Pringle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mechanisms of plant-plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah

(2014) A. M. Louthan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford et al.   SCIENCE

Native and domestic browsers and grazers reduce fuels, fire temperatures, and acacia ant mortality in an African savanna

(2013) Duncan M. Kimuyu et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A role for indirect facilitation in maintaining diversity in a guild of African acacia ants

(2013) Todd M. Palmer et al.   ECOLOGY

Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees

(2013) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness

(2013) Allison M. Louthan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Herbivory and drought interact to enhance spatial patterning and diversity in a savanna understory

(2013) Lauren M. Porensky et al.   OECOLOGIA

Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community across a Rainfall Gradient: The UHURU Experiment

(2013) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   PLoS One

Revisiting the Two-Layer Hypothesis: Coexistence of Alternative Functional Rooting Strategies in Savannas

(2013) Ricardo M. Holdo   PLoS One

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

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

Not all ants are equal: obligate acacia ants provide different levels of protection against mega-herbivores

(2010) Dino J. Martins   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna

(2010) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree

(2010) Maureen L. Stanton et al.   ECOLOGY

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

(2010) T. M. Palmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Refuge-mediated apparent competition in plant–consumer interactions

(2009) John L. Orrock et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size

(2009) Len Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Physical effects of soil drying on roots and crop growth

(2009) Andrew P. Whitmore et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

SAVANNA TREE DENSITY, HERBIVORES, AND THE HERBACEOUS COMMUNITY: BOTTOM-UP VS. TOP-DOWN EFFECTS

(2008) Corinna Riginos et al.   ECOLOGY

Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

(2008) T. M. Palmer et al.   SCIENCE

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

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