ArticleBiological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society2022
How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest-grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest-steppe.
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- The global importance of grasslands underlined by the combination of multiple telemetry tracking techniques of a trans-equatorial loop migrant bird, the European roller (Coracias garrulus).Movement ecology · 2026Article
- Topography is a Major Determinant of Forest-Savanna Distributions in Mosaic Landscapes in Central Africa.Ecosystems (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Global alternatives of natural vegetation cover.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of plant-animal interactions in the long-term development of heritage landscapes in Europe.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Between-year weather differences and long-term environmental trends both contribute to observed vegetation changes in a plot resurvey study.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Topographic depressions can provide climate and resource microrefugia for biodiversity.iScience · 2023Article
- Empirical delineation of the forest-steppe zone is supported by macroclimate.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Recent advances in ecology and biogeography demonstrate the importance of fire and large herbivores - and challenge the primacy of climate - to our understanding of the distribution, stability, and antiquity of forests and grasslands. Among grassland ecologists, particularly those working in savannas of the seasonally dry tropics, an emerging fire-herbivore paradigm is generally accepted to explain grass dominance in climates and on soils that would otherwise permit development of closed-canopy forests. By contrast, adherents of the climate-soil paradigm, particularly foresters working in the humid tropics or temperate latitudes, tend to view fire and herbivores as disturbances, often human-caused, which damage forests and reset succession. Towards integration of these two paradigms, we developed a series of conceptual models to explain the existence of an extensive temperate forest-grassland mosaic that occurs within a 4.7 million km
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