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Lesser Prairie-Chicken Avoidance of Trees in a Grassland Landscape

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Shrubland resilience varies across soil types: implications for operationalizing resilience in ecological restoration

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Assessing the Potential for Transitions from Tallgrass Prairie to Woodlands: Are We Operating Beyond Critical Fire Thresholds?

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Influence of drought on growing season carbon and water cycling with changing land cover

(2015) K.E. Logan et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Long-Term Dynamics and Hotspots of Change in a Desert Grassland Plant Community

(2015) Scott L. Collins et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

(2015) Gregory S Okin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Do early warning indicators consistently predict nonlinear change in long-term ecological data?

(2015) Sarah J. Burthe et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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(2015) Paula Villa Martín et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America

(2015) Zak Ratajczak et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fire, percolation thresholds and the savanna forest transition: a neutral model approach

(2015) Sebastián R. Abades et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts

(2014) Zak Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

Early Warning Signals of Ecological Transitions: Methods for Spatial Patterns

(2014) Sonia Kéfi et al.   PLoS One

Effect of woody-plant encroachment on livestock production in North and South America

(2014) J. D. Anadon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

(2013) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Refining thresholds in coupled fire-vegetation models to improve management of encroaching woody plants in grasslands

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations

(2013) Lei Dai et al.   NATURE

Evidence of Physiological Decoupling from Grassland Ecosystem Drivers by an Encroaching Woody Shrub

(2013) Jesse B. Nippert et al.   PLoS One

Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression

(2013) I. A. van de Leemput et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Repeated burning of eastern tallgrass prairie increases richness and diversity, stabilizing late successional vegetation

(2012) Marlin L. Bowles et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A test of critical thresholds and their indicators in a desertification-prone ecosystem: more resilience than we thought

(2012) Brandon T. Bestelmeyer 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

Anticipating Critical Transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   SCIENCE

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

(2012) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

(2011) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Fire history of a prairie/forest boundary: more than 250 years of frequent fire in a North American tallgrass prairie

(2011) Matthew S. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Spatial resilience: integrating landscape ecology, resilience, and sustainability

(2011) Graeme S. Cumming   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Linking plant growth responses across topographic gradients in tallgrass prairie

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Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

(2011) S. R. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE

Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie

(2011) Zak Ratajczak et al.   Ecosphere

Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

(2011) Brandon T. Bestelmeyer et al.   Ecosphere

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(2010) Alan Hastings   ECOLOGY

Historic Fire Regime of an Upland Oak Forest in South-Central North America

(2010) Ryan D. DeSantis et al.   Fire Ecology

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

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Tree seedling survivorship, growth, and allocation in the Cross Timbers ecotone of Oklahoma, USA

(2009) Randall W. Myster   PLANT ECOLOGY

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Pyric Herbivory: Rewilding Landscapes through the Recoupling of Fire and Grazing

(2008) SAMUEL D. FUHLENDORF et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial variance and spatial skewness: leading indicators of regime shifts in spatial ecological systems

(2008) Vishwesha Guttal et al.   Theoretical Ecology