Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

WJ Bond, GF Midgley - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Savannahs are a mixture of trees and grasses often occurring as alternate states to closed
forests. Savannah fires are frequent where grass productivity is high in the wet season. Fires …

Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannahs: overgrazing, global change or extinction aftershock?

N Stevens, BFN Erasmus… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Woody encroachment in 'open'biomes like grasslands and savannahs is occurring globally.
Both local and global drivers, including elevated CO2, have been implicated in these …

Landscape‐scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

GP Asner, SR Levick - Ecology letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivores cause treefalls in African savannas, but rates are unknown at large scales
required to forecast changes in biodiversity and ecosystem processes. We combined …

Determinants of woody encroachment and cover in African savannas

AP Devine, RA McDonald, T Quaife, IMD Maclean - Oecologia, 2017 - Springer
Savanna ecosystems are an integral part of the African landscape and sustain the
livelihoods of millions of people. Woody encroachment in savannas is a widespread …

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… - Australian Journal of …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Plant functional traits provide a valuable tool to improve our understanding of ecological
processes at a range of scales. Previous handbooks on plant functional traits have …

Ecosystem‐scale effects of megafauna in African savannas

GP Asner, N Vaughn, IPJ Smit, S Levick - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural protected areas are critically important in the effort to prevent large‐scale
megafaunal extinctions caused by hunting and habitat degradation. Yet such protection can …

First validation of GEDI canopy heights in African savannas

X Li, K Wessels, J Armston, S Hancock… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Savannas have complex, discontinuous woody vegetation structures that vary greatly in
vertical and spatial arrangement and change due to climatic, ecological and management …

An examination of the potential efficacy of high‐intensity fires for reversing woody encroachment in savannas

IPJ Smit, GP Asner, N Govender… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent fires are often proposed as a way of preventing woody encroachment in savannas,
yet few studies have examined whether high‐intensity fires can effectively reverse woody …

On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the tropics

EM Veenendaal, M Torello‐Raventos… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed data from 11 experiments examining the effects of the timing and/or frequency
of fire on tropical forest and/or savanna vegetation structure over one decade or more. The …