Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

A human-driven decline in global burned area

(2017) N. Andela et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonian forest-savanna bistability and human impact

(2017) Bert Wuyts et al.   Nature Communications

Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks

(2017) Delphine Clara Zemp et al.   Nature Communications

Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states

(2016) Chi Xu et al.   ECOLOGY

Why are forests so scarce in subtropical South America? The shaping roles of climate, fire and livestock

(2016) Rafael E. Bernardi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire-vegetation feedback

(2016) G. Lasslop et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa

(2016) Sally Archibald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Do You Mean, ‘Tipping Point’?

(2016) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Synergistic effects of drought and deforestation on the resilience of the south-eastern Amazon rainforest

(2015) Arie Staal et al.   Ecological Complexity

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

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

Analysis of stable states in global savannas - a response to Staver and Hansen

(2015) Niall P. Hanan et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Feedbacks and landscape-level vegetation dynamics

(2015) David M.J.S. Bowman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

Implications of the spatial dynamics of fire spread for the bistability of savanna and forest

(2014) E. Schertzer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Mapping the Global Distribution of Livestock

(2014) Timothy P. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

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

Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data

(2013) Egbert H. van Nes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Analysis of stable states in global savannas: is the CART pulling the horse?

(2013) Niall P. Hanan et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global fire-productivity relationship

(2013) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

(2013) Milena Holmgren et al.   Nature Climate Change

Integrating Theoretical Climate and Fire Effects on Savanna and Forest Systems

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests

(2012) D. V. Spracklen et al.   NATURE

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

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

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

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

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

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years

(2010) Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree–grass co-existence in savanna: Interactions of rain and fire

(2010) Francesco Accatino et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Savanna burning and the assessment of long-term fire experiments with particular reference to Zimbabwe

(2009) Peter A. Furley et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics

(2008) Guido R. van der Werf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point

(2008) D. C Nepstad et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product

(2008) D.P. Roy et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

(2007) Y. Malhi et al.   SCIENCE