Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

A Policy-Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   Conservation Letters

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

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

(2015) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

(2015) Gerhard E. Overbeck et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

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

Updating models for restoration and management of fiery ecosystems

(2015) Jennifer M. Fill et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) Rodney J. Keenan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

The need for a consistent fire policy for Cerrado conservation

(2015) Giselda Durigan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Determinants of flammability in savanna grass species

(2015) Kimberley J. Simpson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Grassland degradation and restoration: a conceptual framework of stages and thresholds illustrated by southern Brazilian grasslands

(2015) Bianca O. Andrade et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

New insights on palaeofires and savannisation in northern South America

(2015) Valentí Rull et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Rough waters for native Chinese fish

(2015) P. E. Hulme   SCIENCE

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

(2015) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Seasonality of Fire Weather Strongly Influences Fire Regimes in South Florida Savanna-Grassland Landscapes

(2015) William J. Platt et al.   PLoS One

Fire and grazing modify grass community response to environmental determinants in savannas: Implications for sustainable use

(2014) Rajat Ramakant Nayak et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Regional Variations in Biomass Distribution in Brazilian Savanna Woodland

(2014) Sabrina do Couto de Miranda et al.   BIOTROPICA

How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain

(2014) Reed F. Noss et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2014) Zak Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

Land-use history alters contemporary insect herbivore community composition and decouples plant-herbivore relationships

(2014) Philip G. Hahn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Land-Use History and Contemporary Management Inform an Ecological Reference Model for Longleaf Pine Woodland Understory Plant Communities

(2014) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   PLoS One

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

(2014) B. Soares-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

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

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

(2013) Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation

(2013) Ian D. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Strong legacy of agricultural land use on soils and understory plant communities in longleaf pine woodlands

(2013) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire regimes and woody biomass dynamics in Australian savannas

(2013) Brett P. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological palaeoecology in the neotropical Gran Sabana region: Long-term records of vegetation dynamics as a basis for ecological hypothesis testing

(2013) Valentí Rull et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses

(2013) D. V. Silverio et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

(2013) Mireia Torello-Raventos et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cultural legacies, fire ecology, and environmental change in the Stone Country of Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park, Australia

(2013) Clay Trauernicht et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Understory plant communities and the functional distinction between savanna trees, forest trees, and pines

(2012) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

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

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 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

The Use of Fire in the Cerrado and Amazonian Rainforests of Brazil: Past and Present

(2011) Vânia R. Pivello   Fire Ecology

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

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

Tree topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of savanna–forest boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil

(2009) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Selective logging and fire as drivers of alien grass invasion in a Bolivian tropical dry forest

(2009) J.W. Veldman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dangers of carbon-based conservation

(2009) F.E. Putz et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

Diversity patterns in savanna grassland communities: implications for conservation strategies in a biodiversity hotspot

(2008) Mahesh Sankaran   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

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