Repeated fires trap Amazonian blackwater floodplains in an open vegetation state

Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

(2015) Ane A. Alencar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

(2015) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fire Damage in Seasonally Flooded and Upland Forests of the Central Amazon

(2014) Angélica F. de Resende et al.   BIOTROPICA

Post-fire dynamics of woody vegetation in seasonally flooded forests (impucas) in the Cerrado-Amazonian Forest transition zone

(2014) Leandro Maracahipes et al.   FLORA

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

(2014) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Climate Change

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

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

A fire-driven shift from forest to non-forest: evidence for alternative stable states?

(2013) Michael-Shawn Fletcher et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf decomposition and fine fuels in floodplain forests of the Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) Aline Ramos dos Santos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Can savannas become forests? A coupled analysis of nutrient stocks and fire thresholds in central Brazil

(2013) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Tropical Peat Accumulation in Central Amazonia

(2013) Outi Lähteenoja et al.   WETLANDS

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

(2013) Milena Holmgren et al.   Nature Climate Change

The critical importance of considering fire in REDD+ programs

(2012) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Impact of Past Forest Fires on Bird Populations in Flooded Forests of the Cuini River in the Lowland Amazon

(2012) Camila D. Ritter et al.   BIOTROPICA

Caught in a fire trap: Recurring fire creates stable size equilibria in woody resprouters

(2012) John M. Grady et al.   ECOLOGY

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

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

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fire disturbance in Amazonian blackwater floodplain forests

(2012) Bernardo M. Flores et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Convergence and divergence in alternative successional pathways in Central Amazonia

(2012) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin

(2011) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

(2011) Y. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands

(2011) Wolfgang J. Junk et al.   WETLANDS

The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD

(2010) L. E. O. C. Aragao et al.   SCIENCE

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 Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

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