The impact of shrub encroachment on savanna bird diversity from local to regional scale

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Exploring consensus in 21st century projections of climatically suitable areas for African vertebrates (2011, background): “In the case of grass-dominated savan-nas, the low levels of CO 2 that triggered their development during the last glacial are clearly being surpassed, with expected changes in tree cover (Bond et al. , 2003; Kgope et al. , 2010) and associated fauna (Sirami et al. , 2009).”
Are shrubs really a sign of declining ecosystem function? Disentangling the myths and truths of woody encroachment in Australia (2014, background): “…that we have assessed (C sequestration, biodiversity conservation, hydrology, plant pastoral nutrients, pastoral production, soil fertility; see Box 4) are likely to respond differently to increasing woody densities (adapted from Blaum et al. 2007; Sirami et al. 2009; Eldridge et al. 2013).”
Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change–induced biome switch (2012, background): “Ideally, a mosaic of thicket patches within a matrix of open savanna that promotes heterogeneity across scales would be preferable for maintaining regional diversity (see also Sirami et al., 2009).”