A proposed CO2‐controlled mechanism of woody plant invasion in grasslands and savannas

By W. Bond, Guy F. Midgley. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. W. Bond
2. Petr Pyšek
3. D. Richardson
4. C. Parr
5. J. E. Keeley
6. Philip W. Rundel
7. M. Rejmánek
8. D. S. Kubien

In Plant Science

1. D. Richardson
2. Petr Pyšek
3. W. Bond
4. M. Rejmánek
5. L. Foxcroft
6. M. Cramer
7. D. S. Kubien
8. Richard J. Hobbs

Citations in the corpus

• Role of nurse plants in Araucaria Forest expansion over grassland in south Brazil (2006, background): “© 2006 Ecological Society of Australia et al. (1988) suggested a global tendency for increased woody plant abundance in grassland ecosystems, possibly caused by global climatic change or increased atmospheric CO2 concentration ( Bond & Midgley 2000 ).”
• Setting Effective and Realistic Restoration Goals: Key Directions for Research (2007, background): “An example is the ongoing increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which have been shown to have profound influence on vegetation dynamics in some parts of the world (Bond & Midgley 2000; Bond et al. 2003).”
• On the origin of southern African subtropical thicket vegetation (2005, background): “Bond and Midgley (2000) implicate rising levels of CO2 in this process.”
• Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents (2017, unknown): “Increased [CO 2 ] will also directly increase the rate of carbon uptake by plants, potentially increasing growth rates and the recruitment of woody plants (Bond & Midgley, 2000; Hoffmann et al. , 2000; Kgope et al. , 2010).”
• Biological invaders in a greenhouse world: will elevated CO2 fuel plant invasions? (2003, background): “Alternatively, changes in CO2 that increase the growth rates of woody plants may make them less susceptible to fire by raising vulnerable tissues above the flames (Bond and Midgley 2000).”
• The role of topkill in the differential response of savanna woody species to fire (2003, background): “Therefore, topkill and the rate of resprout may control changes in tree cover in moist tropical savannas (Bond and Midgley, 2000; Higgins et al., 2000).”
• A patch-dynamics approach to savanna dynamics and woody plant encroachment – Insights from an arid savanna (2006, background): “Furthermore, an increased amount of carbon may become available for (iii) a faster escape of seedlings from the zone of influence of grass fires (Bond and Midgley, 2000), or for (iv) investments in carbon-based defence compounds, such as tannins, which are the main defence compounds of many…”
• The origin of the savanna biome (2006, background): “…r 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2023 of recent advances in our understanding of how fire and smoke influence climate (Andreae et al., 2004; Koren et al., 2004), with previous work on savanna ecology in a low-CO2 world (Bond & Midgley, 2000; Keeley & Rundel, 2003, 2005; van Langevelde et al., 2003).”
• Brazil's neglected biome: The South Brazilian Campos (2007, background): “, 2003), with different hypotheses being proposed to explain these patterns (such as climatic shifts or elevated global CO2 levels; e.g. Longman and Jenı́k, 1992; Bond and Midgley, 2000; Sternberg, 2001).”
• Evolution of CAM and C4 Carbon‐Concentrating Mechanisms (2003, background): “As Bond and Midgley (2000) point out, the firedriven interaction between savanna trees and C4 grasslands could have had an important CO2 component.”
• Quo vadis C4? An ecophysiological perspective on global change and the future of C4 plants (2004, background): “The higher CO2 of the current era tends to favor C3 shrub establishment in the presence of continued grazing, however, and should hinder reversion to grassland (Bond and Midgley 2001).”
• What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas (2008, background): “The second argues that woody plants would be able to escape fire and herbivory more readily owing to the direct effects of CO2 fertilization on growth rates, resprouting ability (Hoffmann et al. 2000), and herbivore defense in seedlings and saplings (Bond & Midgley 2000).”