Effects of fire and drought in a tropical eucalypt savanna colonized by rain forest

By R. Fensham, Russell Fairfax, D. Butler, D. Bowman. 2003

105 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Aim This study documents the effects of multiple fires and drought on the woody structure of a north Australian savanna never grazed by domestic stock.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. W. Bond
2. J. Woinarski
3. J. E. Keeley
4. T. Hertog
5. A. Andersen
6. Romain Julliard
7. J. Gignoux
8. Russell Fairfax

In Global and Planetary Change

1. W. Bond
2. J. E. Keeley
3. D. L. Vieira
4. Romain Julliard
5. J. Gignoux
6. Russell Fairfax
7. A. Scariot
8. J. Woinarski

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. W. Bond
2. J. E. Keeley
3. J. Gignoux
4. Romain Julliard
5. S. Barot
6. Gaëlle Lahoreau
7. D. L. Vieira
8. Russell Fairfax

Citations in the corpus

• Drought-related tree death of savanna eucalypts: Species susceptibility, soil conditions and root architecture (2007, background): “Fensham et al. (2003) have demonstrated that debilitated savanna Ironbarks with only epicormic growth do not generally recover.”
• Long‐term fire exclusion and ant community structure in an Australian tropical savanna: congruence with vegetation succession (2006, background): “In contrast, the incursion of rain forest taxa is extremely slow in the vast savanna landscapes of monsoonal north-western Australia(1), which experience extreme seasonal drought for up to seven months each year (Bowman, 2000; Fensham et al., 2003; Williams et al., 2003; Fensham & Butler, 2004).”
• Principles of Natural Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forests for Restoration (2006, background): “A high incidence of fire can convert dry forests to savanna-like formations (Rundel & Boonpragob 1995; Menaut et al. 1995; Fensham et al. 2003).”
• Fire as a global 'herbivore': the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems. (2005, background): “Bowman concluded that the only consistent difference between trees of the two formations was in their fire response: eucalypts have a remarkable ability to survive and thrive under frequent fires, whereas rainforest trees are killed by repeated burning[11, 58 ].”
• Establishment and early persistence of tree seedlings in an annually burned savanna (2008, background): “…demographic studies comparing seedlings or resprouts of forest and savanna trees, conducted in Brazilian and Australian savannas (Hoffmann 2000; Fensham et al. 2003), highlighting the considerable influence of fire on the composition of these plant communities (Trapnell 1959; Hoffmann et al.…”
• What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas (2008, background): “In Australia, Fensham et al. (2003) compared the responses of forest and savanna species to a series of fires in savannas protected from burning for more than a century.”