The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

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Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes (2013, result): “These data and several recent papers (42, 43) support our contention that fire is unlikely to be unilaterally responsive to climate in a deterministic way.”
Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming (2020, background): “Observational data further support the potential for multi-stability of the Amazon rainforest (Ciemer et al., 2019; Hirota et al., 2011; Staver et al., 2011).”
Using tree species inventories to map biomes and assess their climatic overlaps in lowland tropical South America (2018, background): “Recent 365 biome maps of LTSA, generally based on remote sensing, either fail to include major biomes 366 (e.g. Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest is absent from Hirota et al., 2011; Staver et al., 2011), or 367 are unable to distinguish amongst the dry tropical biomes of Savanna and SDTF (Beuchle et 36”
Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity (2020, background): “The shift to shrub-dominated vegetation observed adds to other transitions identified under wetter climates, 20 such as those occurring between forests and savannas (26) or C3- and C4-dominant grasslands (27), and provides novel and relevant information to understand how climate change may affect do”