The origin of the savanna biome

By D. Beerling, C. Osborne. 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Neotropical savanna ants show a reversed latitudinal gradient of species richness, with climatic drivers reflecting the forest origin of the fauna (2018, result): “This is consistent with other studies that indicate a late Miocene origin of tropical savannas (Beerling & Osborne, 2006).”
The evolution of African plant diversity (2014, background): “The link between the dominance of C4 grasses and fires is frequently made (Bond et al., 2003, 2005; Beerling and Osborne, 2006).”
Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire (2009, background): “2 J), and this is compatible with fire as a common underlying trigger prompting the evolution of endemic Cerrado species and lineages, although the precise dynamics of this are clearly complex (30, 31, 38).”
Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta‐analysis (2018, background): “For example, most savannas are maintained by either limited precipitation or disturbance, but some are maintained by seasonal flooding and infrequent fire, such as the Pantanal in South America (Assine & Soares, 2004; Beerling & Osborne, 2006; Murphy & Bowman, 2012).”
The origins and diversification of C4 grasses and savanna‐adapted ungulates (2009, background): “…epidermal silica densities of C4 grasses One of the commonly discussed nonclimatic factors that could have driven C4 grass evolution is herbivory (Coughenour, 1985; Belsky, 1986; Janis, 1993; Macfadden & Cerling, 1994; Chapman, 1996; Jernvall et al., 1996; Sage, 2001; Beerling & Osborne, 2006).”
Fire in the Earth System (2009, background): “It has been suggested that the expansion of savannas around 7–8 million years ago, for example, was a result of increases in wildfire that led to a drier climate through biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks to climate, and thus promoted expansion of drought-tolerant vegetation (Beerling and Osbo”
Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018, background): “The impacts this had on Earth system processes have not yet adequately been addressed, but presumably they altered above-ground biomass stocks and C, N and P cycling rates, with consequent impacts on regional climates (Beerling and Osborne 2006).”
Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority (2015, background): “This pattern coincides with the radiation and dominance of flammable C4 grasses in savannahs worldwide following a drying climate (Beerling and Osborne 2006).”
The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4 grassy biomes (2008, background): “…decreasing atmospheric CO2 through the Tertiary (Ehleringer et al., 1997), increased aridity and more frequent fires associated with the onset of monsoonal climates in the Miocene (Keeley & Rundel, 2005) or a combination of these factors with feedbacks between them (Beerling & Osborne, 2006).”
Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. (2011, result): “Our results contrast with the current view that fire-dominated vegetation originated much later, after global climate aridified and the monsoonal biome developed, in the late Miocen”
Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change–induced biome switch (2012, background): “…encroachment include changes in carbon stocks (and thus sequestration potential), nutrient cycling and hydrology (Asner et al., 2004; Bond, 2008), and at regional scales, there is the potential for large feedbacks to the earth-atmosphere system (Hoffmann et al., 2002; Beerling & Osborne, 2006).”
Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora (2018, background): “C4 grasslands began to replace the C3 grasslands in Africa 16–14 Ma, with a marked expansion at 9–4 Ma [82], as a response to the onset of summer rain, declining CO2 concentrations, increasing drought associated with falling temperatures, more frequent fire and intensified herbivory [83,84].”
Photorespiration and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. (2012, background): “The 30-million-year spread in the timing of the many C4 origins following the Oligocene CO2 decline now indicates that rather than serving as a trigger, low CO2 was a precondition for C4 evolution, enabling other factors to play a pivotal role.”
The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub‐Saharan Africa (2012, background): “…with the idea that the vegetation functions as a giant ecosystem engineer that creates the habitat for animals (Linder et al., in press), e.g. hot pyrophytic savanna (Bond et al., 2005; Beerling & Osborne, 2006) or shady cool forests (Pinto et al., 2010) can be found under the same climate.”
EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ANGIOSPERM ROOT TRAITS (2012, neutral): “Second, forests composed of these lineages have played a dominant role in driving terrestrial biogeochemical cycles over this time compared with grasslands and savannas, which are more recent (Beerling and Osborne 2006; Tipple 1 These authors contributed equally to this work.”
What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas (2008, background): “Beerling & Osborne (2006) have made an intriguing qualitative analysis of the multiple earth-atmosphere feedbacks that may have promoted the spread of C4 grassy biomes.”