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Afforestation reduces fire occurrence in Colombia’s tropical savannas

Environmental Research Letters
Changes in land use, climate, and socio-ecology drive altered fire regimes that in turn reshape global ecosystems. Rapid afforestation with commercial tree plantations is transforming fire-prone savannas and grasslands globally and particularly in ...
Dolors Armenteras, Arnold Garcia-Samaca, Walter Garcia-Suabita, Federico Mosquera-Guerra, Liliana M Dávalos   +4 more
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Inserting Tropical Dry Forests Into the Discussion on Biome Transitions in the Tropics

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Tropical moist forests and savannas are iconic biomes. There is, however, a third principal biome in the lowland tropics that is less well known: tropical dry forest.
Kyle G. Dexter, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, R. Toby Pennington, Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, Marcelo L. Bueno, Pedro L. Silva de Miranda, Danilo M. Neves, Danilo M. Neves   +8 more
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Tropical savanna small mammals respond to loss of cover following disturbance: A global review of field studies

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Small-mammal faunas of tropical savannas consist of endemic assemblages of murid rodents, small marsupials, and insectivores on four continents. Small mammals in tropical savannas are understudied compared to other tropical habitats and other taxonomic ...
Bradley J. Bergstrom, Samuel B. Scruggs, Emerson M. Vieira   +2 more
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Soil carbon in tropical savannas mostly derived from grasses [PDF]

, 2023
Tropical savannas have been increasingly targeted for carbon sequestration by afforestation, assuming large gains in soil organic carbon (SOC) with increasing tree cover.
Emma F. Gray, Andrew B. Davies, Silva, Lucas, Gray, Emma F, Yong Zhou, Edmund C. February, Coetsee, Corli, Jamie L. Wright, February, Edmund, Bond, William, Barbara Bomfim, A. Carla Staver, Madelon F. Case, Bomfim, Barbara, Case, Madelon, Boutton, Thomas, Case, Madelon F, Staver, A Carla, Davies, Andrew, Gray, Emma, Wright, Jamie, Staver, A. Carla, Zhou, Yong, February, Edmund C, Wright, Jamie L, Davies, Andrew B, Corli Coetsee, Thomas W. Boutton, William J. Bond, Lucas C. R. Silva, Boutton, Thomas W, Bond, William J, Silva, Lucas CR   +32 more
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Reviews and syntheses: Australian vegetation phenology: new insights from satellite remote sensing and digital repeat photography [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2016
Phenology is the study of periodic biological occurrences and can provide important insights into the influence of climatic variability and change on ecosystems.
C. E. Moore, T. Brown, T. F. Keenan, R. A. Duursma, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, J. Beringer, D. Culvenor, B. Evans, A. Huete, L. B. Hutley, S. Maier, N. Restrepo-Coupe, O. Sonnentag, A. Specht, J. R. Taylor, E. van Gorsel, M. J. Liddell   +16 more
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Elevated Wildfire and Ecosystem Carbon Loss Risks Due to Plant Hydraulic Stress Functions: A Global Modeling Perspective

Fire, 2022
Wildfire risks are increasing due to the atmospheric and vegetation aridity under global warming. Plant hydraulic stress (PHS) functions regulate water transport along the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum under water stress conditions, which probably ...
Haohao Wu, Congsheng Fu, Lingling Zhang, Huawu Wu   +3 more
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Tree cover bimodality in savannas and forests emerging from the switching between two fire dynamics.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Moist savannas and tropical forests share the same climatic conditions and occur side by side. Experimental evidences show that the tree cover of these ecosystems exhibits a bimodal frequency distribution.
Carlo De Michele, Francesco Accatino
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Indigenous impacts on north Australian savanna fire regimes over the Holocene

Scientific Reports, 2021
Fire is an essential component of tropical savannas, driving key ecological feedbacks and functions. Indigenous manipulation of fire has been practiced for tens of millennia in Australian savannas, and there is a renewed interest in understanding the ...
Christopher M. Wurster, Cassandra Rowe, Costijn Zwart, Dirk Sachse, Vladimir Levchenko, Michael I. Bird   +5 more
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Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents [PDF]

, 2019
Aim An emerging framework for tropical ecosystems states that fire activity is either “fuel build‐up limited” or “fuel moisture limited”, that is, as you move up along rainfall gradients, the major control on fire occurrence switches from being the ...
Alvarado, Swanni T, Thiago Sanna F. Silva (8216718), Alvarado, Swanni T. [UNESP], Silva, Thiago S F, Silva, Thiago S. F. [UNESP], Swanni T. Alvarado, Niels Andela, Thiago S. F. Silva, Archibald, Sally, Niels Andela (7884056), Sally Archibald (560905), Alvarado, Swanni T., Thiago Sanna F. Silva, Andela, Niels, Swanni T. Alvarado (8216715), Sally Archibald, Silva, Thiago S. F.   +16 more
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Precipitation as driver of carbon fluxes in 11 African ecosystems [PDF]

, 2008
This study reports carbon and water fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere in eleven different ecosystems types in Sub-Saharan Africa, as measured using eddy covariance (EC) technology in the first two years of the CarboAfrica network operation ...
F. Timouk, Cappelaere, B, Bonnefond, J.M., Veenendaal, E.M., Muchinda, M., Ardö, Junas, Kutsch, WL, Y. Nouvellon, E. Ceschia, El-Khidir, H.A.M., El-Tahir, BA, Ramier, D, El-Khidir, HAM, Kutsch, Werner L., Veenendaal, Elmar M., Timouk, F., Nouvellon, Y, L. Kergoat, E. Mougin, Bonnefond, J., C. Bruemmer, Falk, U, El Khidir, H.A.M., Kutsch, W., A. de Grandcourt, Ceschia, E., Grandcourt, A., de, B. A. El-Tahir, U. Falk, Kutsch, W. L., Bonnefond, Jean-Marc, J.-M., Brueggemann, N., Bonnefonds, J.M., Boulain, N, Scholes, Robert J., Cappelaere, B., Kergoat, L, El-Tahir, B.A., Veenendaal, EM, Nouvellon, Y., B. Cappelaere, de Grandcourt, A., Bruemmer, C., Timouk, Franck, H. A. M. El-Khidir, R. J. Scholes, Cappelaere, Bernard, Veenendaal, E., Ceschia, Eric, J. Lloyd, D. Ramier, Ramier, David, Nouvellon, Yann, J. Ardö, Bruemmer, C, Ardö, Jonas, Kergoat, L., Ceschia, E, S. Archibald, El Tahir, B.A., Mougin, Éric, Lloyd, J., Ramier, D., Le Dantec, V., Timouk, F, El-Khidir, H. A. M., Boulain, N., Scholes, R., Falk, U., Mukelabai, M. M., M. Muchinda, Mougin, E, V. Le Dantec, E. M. Veenendaal, Lloyd, Jon, N. Brueggemann, Lloyd, Jonathan, A. Arneth, El-Tahir, B. A., Merbold, L, Scholes, RJ, Merbold, L., O. Roupsard, Scholes, R.J., N. Boulain, El-Khidir, H., Le Dantec, V, Ardö, J, Veenendaal, E. M., Archibald, S, Scholes, R. J., De Grandcourt, Agnès, Bonnefond, J. M., Lloyd, J, Kutsch, W.L., Brueggemann, N, Arneth, A., L. Merbold, Ardö, J., Archibald, S., M. M. Mukelabai, Dantec, V., Le, W. L. Kutsch, Mukelabai, M., Le Dantec, Valérie, Bonnefond, Jean-Marc, El-Tahir, B., Bonnefond, Jean-Marc,, Roupsard, O, Roupsard, Olivier, Mougin, E., Arneth, A, J. M. Bonnefond, Boulain, Nicolas, Muchinda, M, De Grandcourt, A, Roupsard, O., Mukelabai, MM, Bonnefond, JM, Mukelabai, M.M., Arneth, Almut, Kergoat, Laurent   +121 more
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