Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

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How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness (2011, background): “…is an important driver of tree dynamics in savannas worldwide because it can limit seedling recruitment and prevent the transition of juvenile trees to the canopy (Prior et al. 2006, Bond 2008, v www.esajournals.org 1 April 2011 v Volume 2(4) v Article 42 Midgley et al. 2010, Murphy et al. 2010).”
Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality (2018, background): “Moreover, resprouting following top-kill (i.e. mortality of the aboveground ramet but not the genetic individual) confuses the very concept of fire-causedmortality (Midgley et al 2010).”
Bark thickness determines fire resistance of selected tree species from fire-prone tropical savanna in north Australia (2011, background): “Recent research demonstrates that fire damage to the tree stem and not the canopy causes topkill (Gignoux et al. 1997; Balfour and Midgley 2006; Midgley et al. 2010).”