When is a 'forest' a savanna, and why does it matter?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 653-660

  Ratnam, Jayashree ^a,b   Bond, William J ^c   Fensham, Rod J ^d,e   Hoffmann, William A ^f   Archibald, Sally ^g   Lehmann, Caroline E R ^h   Anderson, Michael T ⁱ   Higgins, Steven I ^j   Sankaran, Mahesh ^a,b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d QUEENSLAND HERBARIUM   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^h CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Degraded forests; Fire tolerance; Functional traits; Mesic savannas; Shade intolerance; South asia; Tropical dry forests; Tropical savannas

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DRY FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIXED FOREST; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SAVANNA; SHADE TOLERANCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

SOUTH ASIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 79961131495     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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