Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

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

Tree cover-fire interactions promote the persistence of a fire-sensitive conifer in a highly flammable savanna

(2012) Clay Trauernicht et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of fire in structuring trait variability in Neotropical savannas

(2012) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn 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

Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire

(2010) Salvador Pueyo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do nutrient-poor soils inhibit development of forests? A nutrient stock analysis

(2010) William J. Bond   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2009) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Differences in growth patterns between co-occurring forest and savanna trees affect the forest-savanna boundary

(2009) Davi Rodrigo Rossatto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Wood density predicts plant damage and vegetative recovery rates caused by cyclone disturbance in tropical rainforest tree species of North Queensland, Australia

(2008) TIMOTHY J. CURRAN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

(2008) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS