Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents

Science

Volumn 343, Issue 6170, 2014, Pages 548-552

  Lehmann, Caroline E R ^a,b   Anderson, T Michael ^c   Sankaran, Mahesh ^d,e   Higgins, Steven I ^f,g   Archibald, Sally ^h,i   Hoffmann, William A ^j   Hanan, Niall P ^k   Williams, Richard J ^l   Fensham, Roderick J ^m   Felfili, Jeanine ⁿ   Hutley, Lindsay B ^o   Ratnam, Jayashree ^d   San Jose, Jose ^p   Montes, Ruben ^q   Franklin, Don ^o   Russell Smith, Jeremy ^o   Ryan, Casey M ^b   Durigan, Giselda ^r   Hiernaux, Pierre ^s   Haidar, Ricardo ⁿ   Bowman, David M J S ^t   Bond, William J ^u   more..

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^h DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^j NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l CSIRO   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^o CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^p INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^q UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^r Floresta Estadual de Assis   (Brazil)

^s UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN;

BASAL AREA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; FIRE BEHAVIOR; MOISTURE CONTENT; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; SAVANNA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; SOIL PROPERTY; SOUTH AMERICA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84893026245     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1247355     Document Type: Article

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