Resprouting as a response to disturbance is now widely recognized as a key functional trait
among woody plants and as the basis for the persistence niche. However, the underlying …

Fire shapes the distribution of savanna and forest through complex interactions involving
climate, resources and species traits. Based on data from central Brazil, we propose that …

Each year wildland fires kill and injure trees on millions of forested hectares globally,
affecting plant and animal biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and …

Wild large herbivores are declining worldwide. Despite extensive use of exclosure
experiments to investigate herbivore impacts, there is little consensus on the effects of wild …

Global variation in total bark thickness (TBT) is traditionally attributed to fire. However, bark
is multifunctional, as reflected by its inner living and outer dead regions, meaning that, in …

Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have
contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we …

Despite growing recognition of the conservation value of grassy biomes, our understanding
of how to restore biodiverse tropical and subtropical grassy biomes (grasslands and …

The causes underlying bark diversity are unclear. Variation has been frequently attributed to
environmental differences across sites. However, variation may also result from tradeoffs …

Over the past 15 years, 3 million hectares of forests have been converted into shrublands or
grasslands in the Mediterranean countries of the European Union. Fire and drought are the …

Despite widespread acknowledgement that large mammal herbivory can strongly affect
vegetation structure in savanna, we still lack a theoretical and practical understanding of …