Tree–grass coexistence in the Brazilian cerrado: demographic consequences of environmental instability

By T. Gardner. 2006

83 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Franco
2. M. Haridasan
3. W. Hoffmann
4. Davi Rodrigo Rossatto
5. Emilio Bruna
6. G. Goldstein
7. Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
8. C. Lehmann

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. A. Franco
2. M. Haridasan
3. Davi Rodrigo Rossatto
4. W. Hoffmann
5. Emilio Bruna
6. L. Elliott
7. G. Goldstein
8. Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

In Soil Science

1. Emilio Bruna
2. E. Vieira‐Neto
3. Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
4. A. Franco
5. M. Haridasan
6. A. N. Costa

Citations in the corpus

• Seed predators limit plant recruitment in Neotropical savannas (2011, unknown): “…seedlings of any plant species in the area surrounding nests. to demonstrate seed predation can reduce recruitment in the Cerrado – an expansive tropical biome recognized for its plant diversity but in which it is widely assumed herbivores have negligible eff ects on plant demography (Gardner 2006).”
• Nutritional adaptations of native plants of the cerrado biome in acid soils (2008, background): “An important aspect of the cerrado vegetation is not only the high biodiversity of tree species (Castro et al., 1999; Ratter et al., 2003) but also the coexistence of trees, shrubs and a herbaceous layer (Gardner, 2006).”
• Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants (2008, background): “The dominant paradigm is that herbivory has only minimal effects on cerrado vegetation structure (e.g. Gardner 2006).”
• An idealized model for tree–grass coexistence in savannas: the role of life stage structure and fire disturbances (2009, background): “…indicate that savannas can exist only as a result of temporal and ⁄or spatial disturbances and variations in environmental conditions, e.g. fire, grazing, browsing, etc. (Scholes & Walker 1993; Jeltsch et al. 1998; Rodriguez-Iturbe et al. 1999; D’Odorico, Laio &Ridolfi 2006; Gardner 2006).”
• Timing of seed dispersal and dormancy, rather than persistent soil seed-banks, control seedling recruitment of woody plants in Neotropical savannas (2011, background): “, 2003), but an unstable (non-equilibrium) mixture which persists as a result of complex, non-linear interactions between climate, soil and disturbances such as fire, herbivory and fluctuating annual rainfall (Goodland, 1971; Goodland and Pollard, 1973; Furley and Ratter, 1988; Ratter et al., 1997; ”
• SAVANNA RESPONSES TO FERAL BUFFALO IN KAKADU NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA (2007, background): “…1991, Swaine et al. 1992, Bowman and Panton 1993, Glitzenstein et al. 1995, Williams et al. 1998, 1999, 2002, Moreira 2000, Andersen et al. 2003, Gardner 2006), although Russell-Smith et al. (2003) mention that buffalo may have played a role in interpreting a 24-year study of the effects of…”
• Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes. (2012, background): “Stochasticity of the fire interval should therefore have a strong influence on vegetation dynamics (Higgins et al. 2000; Gardner 2006) by allowing for occasional fire-free periods that are much longer than the mean.”