The deforestation story: testing for anthropogenic origins of Africa's flammable grassy biomes

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

(2016) Maria S. Vorontsova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Evidence of a tipping point in a southern African savanna?

(2015) Lindsey Gillson   Ecological Complexity

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

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

Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

(2015) Joseph W Veldman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment

(2015) Paul Laris et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Soil nutrients in an African forest/savanna mosaic: Drivers or driven?

(2015) Emma F. Gray et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Conservation policy and the measurement of forests

(2015) Joseph O. Sexton et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment

(2015) Paul Laris et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

The remarkable congruence of New and Old World savanna origins

(2014) R. Toby Pennington et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Savanna fire and the origins of the ‘underground forests’ of Africa

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global database of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2014) Colin P. Osborne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A multi-calibrated mitochondrial phylogeny of extant Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) and the importance of the fossil record to systematics

(2013) Faysal Bibi   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Continental-scale variability in browser diversity is a major driver of diversity patterns in acacias across Africa

(2013) Michelle Greve et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

(2013) Sebastian Hoetzel et al.   Nature Geoscience

Increasing atmospheric CO2overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa

(2013) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

(2013) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NW African hydrology and vegetation during the Last Glacial cycle reflected in plant-wax-specific hydrogen and carbon isotopes

(2013) R.R. Kuechler et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Spatial optimization of carbon-stocking projects across Africa integrating stocking potential with co-benefits and feasibility

(2013) Michelle Greve et al.   Nature Communications

A palynological insight into the Miocene aridification in the Eurasian interior

(2013) Zi-Hua Tang et al.   Palaeoworld

Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change-induced biome switch

(2012) Catherine L. Parr et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Fuel shapes the fire-climate relationship: evidence from Mediterranean ecosystems

(2012) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence for Adaptation to Fire Regimes in the Tropical Savannas of the Brazilian Cerrado

(2012) Marcelo F. Simon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

(2012) N. L. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Fuels or microclimate? Understanding the drivers of fire feedbacks at savanna-forest boundaries

(2011) WILLIAM A. HOFFMANN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

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

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

Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa

(2011) Byron B. Lamont et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

(2011) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest–savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter

(2011) E.T.A. Mitchard et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Grassland restoration after afforestation: No direction home?

(2010) NICHOLAS P. ZALOUMIS et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications

(2010) R. A. Bradstock   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

The Importance of Defining ‘Forest’: Tropical Forest Degradation, Deforestation, Long-term Phase Shifts, and Further Transitions

(2009) Francis E. Putz et al.   BIOTROPICA

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4grassy biomes

(2008) William J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation

(2008) J. G. Canadell et al.   SCIENCE