| A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa GP Hempson, S Archibald, WJ Bond Science 350 (6264), 1056-1061, 2015 | 275 | 2015 |
| Ecology of grazing lawns in Africa GP Hempson, S Archibald, WJ Bond, RP Ellis, CC Grant, FJ Kruger, ... Biological Reviews 90 (3), 979-994, 2015 | 246 | 2015 |
| Spiny plants, mammal browsers, and the origin of African savannas T Charles-Dominique, TJ Davies, GP Hempson, BS Bezeng, BH Daru, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (38), E5572-E5579, 2016 | 191 | 2016 |
| Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa S Archibald, GP Hempson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371 …, 2016 | 180 | 2016 |
| The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa GP Hempson, S Archibald, WJ Bond Scientific reports 7 (1), 17196, 2017 | 173 | 2017 |
| A unified framework for plant life‐history strategies shaped by fire and herbivory S Archibald, GP Hempson, C Lehmann New Phytologist 224 (4), 1490-1503, 2019 | 125 | 2019 |
| Drought‐response strategies of savanna herbivores JO Abraham, GP Hempson, AC Staver Ecology and evolution 9 (12), 7047-7056, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas CM Beale, CJ Courtney Mustaphi, TA Morrison, S Archibald, ... Ecology Letters 21 (4), 557-567, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation AC Staver, JO Abraham, GP Hempson, AT Karp, JT Faith Journal of Ecology 109 (8), 2804-2822, 2021 | 85 | 2021 |
| Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages CL Solofondranohatra, MS Vorontsova, GP Hempson, J Hackel, S Cable, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1927), 20200598, 2020 | 81 | 2020 |
| Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa JC Aleman, A Fayolle, C Favier, AC Staver, KG Dexter, CM Ryan, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (45), 28183-28190, 2020 | 69 | 2020 |
| A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems BJ Wigley, T Charles-Dominique, GP Hempson, N Stevens, M TeBeest, ... Australian Journal of Botany 68 (8), 473-531, 2020 | 68 | 2020 |
| Alternate grassy ecosystem states are determined by palatability–flammability trade-offs GP Hempson, S Archibald, JE Donaldson, CER Lehmann Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34 (4), 286-290, 2019 | 61 | 2019 |
| Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti‐Mara ecosystem JR Probert, CL Parr, RM Holdo, TM Anderson, S Archibald, ... Global change biology 25 (10), 3406-3423, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| The ecology of drought-a workshop report AM Swemmer, WJ Bond, J Donaldson, GP Hempson, J Malherbe, ... South African Journal of Science 114 (9-10), 1-3, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| Herbivore population regulation and resource heterogeneity in a stochastic environment GP Hempson, AW Illius, HH Hendricks, WJ Bond, S Vetter Ecology 96 (8), 2170-2180, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| Comparing bark thickness: testing methods with bark–stem data from two South African fire‐prone biomes GP Hempson, JJ Midgley, MJ Lawes, KJ Vickers, LM Kruger Journal of Vegetation Science 25 (5), 1247-1256, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Savanna tree evolutionary ages inform the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of our hominin ancestors TJ Davies, BH Daru, BS Bezeng, T Charles-Dominique, GP Hempson, ... Scientific Reports 10 (1), 12430, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity GP Hempson, CL Parr, S Archibald, TM Anderson, CJC Mustaphi, ... Ecography 41 (6), 889-899, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Determinants of savanna vegetation structure: Insights from Colophospermum mopane GP Hempson, EC February, GA Verboom Austral Ecology 32 (4), 429-435, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
Sally ArchibaldProfessor, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of theAdresse e-mail validée de wits.ac.za