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Cardoso, A. W., Archibald, S., Bond, W. J., Coetsee, C., Forrest, M., Govender, N., ... & Staver, A. C. (2022). Quantifying the environmental limits to fire spread in grassy ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(26), e2110364119.
Lehmann, C. E., Archibald, S., Vorontsova, M. S., Hempson, G. P., & Wieczorkowski, J. D. (2022). “Manisa bozaka” or “Counting grass”: Global Grassy Group guide to understanding and measuring the functional and taxonomic composition of ground layer plants.
White, J. D., Stevens, N., Fisher, J. T., Archibald, S., & Reynolds, C. (2022). Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa. People and Nature.
Voysey, M.D., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Donaldson, J.E., Carla Staver, A. and Greve, M., 2021. The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology, 109(2), pp.913-926.
Simpson, K.J., Jardine, E.C., Archibald, S., Forrestel, E.J., Lehmann, C.E., Thomas, G.H. and Osborne, C.P., 2021. Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders. New Phytologist, 230(2), pp.832-844.
Voysey, M. D., Archibald, S., Bond, W. J., Donaldson, J. E., Carla Staver, A., & Greve, M. 2021. The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology, 109(2), pp.913-926.
Wigley, B.J., Charles-Dominique, T., Hempson, G.P., Stevens, N., te Beest, M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Bunney, K., Coetsee, C., Donaldson, J. and Fidelis, A., 2021. Corrigendum to: A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany, 69(2), pp.110-110.
Wigley, B.J., Charles-Dominique, T., Hempson, G.P., Stevens, N., TeBeest, M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Bunney, K., Coetsee, C., Donaldson, J. and Fidelis, A., 2021. A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(8), pp.473-531.
Kelly, L.T., Giljohann, K.M., Duane, A., Aquilué, N., Archibald, S., Batllori, E., Bennett, A.F., Buckland, S.T., Canelles, Q., Clarke, M.F. and Fortin, M.J., 2020. Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Science, 370(6519).
Voysey, M.D., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Donaldson, J.E., Carla Staver, A. and Greve, M., The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology.
Simpson, K.J., Jardine, E.C., Archibald, S., Forrestel, E.J., Lehmann, C.E., Thomas, G.H. and Osborne, C.P., 2020. Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders. New Phytologist.
Alvarado, S.T., Andela, N., Silva, T.S. and Archibald, S., 2020. Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), pp.331-344.
Hantson, S., Kelley, D.I., Arneth, A., Harrison, S.P., Archibald, S., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Lasslop, G., Li, F. and Mangeon, S., 2020. Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(7), pp.3299-3318.
Glennon, K.L., White, J., Reynolds, C., Risenga, I., Pillay, N., Archibald, S., Balkwill, K., Byrne, M., Cron, G., Engelbrecht, H. and Fisher, J., 2020. Misinterpretation of why black students do not pursue studies in the biological sciences. South African Journal of Science, 116(SPE), pp.1-3.
Botha, M., Archibald, S. and Greve, M., 2020. What drives grassland-forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture.
Lasslop, G., Hantson, S., Harrison, S.P., Bachelet, D., Burton, C., Forkel, M., Forrest, M., Li, F., Melton, J.R., Yue, C. and Archibald, S., 2020. Global ecosystems and fire: multi‐model assessment of fire‐induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction. Global Change Biology.
Siebert, F., Bombo, A.B., Archibald, S., Greve, M. and Fidelis, A., 2019. Introducing bud bank and below-ground plant organ research to South Africa: Report on a workshop and the way forward. South African Journal of Science, 115(11-12), pp.1-2.
Alvarado, S.T., Andela, N., Silva, T.S. and Archibald, S., 2020. Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), pp.331-344.
Veldman, J.W., Aleman, J.C., Alvarado, S.T., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Boutton, T.W., Buchmann, N., Buisson, E., Canadell, J.G. and de Sá Dechoum, M., 2019. Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science, 366(6463), p.eaay7976.
Donaldson, J.E., Parr, C.L., Mangena, E.H. and Archibald, S., 2019. Droughts decouple African savanna grazers from their preferred forage with consequences for grassland productivity. Ecosystems, pp.1-13.
Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Hoffmann, W., Lehmann, C., Staver, C. and Stevens, N., 2019. Distribution and determinants of savannas. Savanna woody plants and large herbivores, pp.1-24.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S. and Staver, C., 2019. Fire and Browsers in Savannas: Traits, Interactions, and Continent‐Level Patterns. Savanna Woody Plants and Large Herbivores, pp.439-468.
Archibald, S., Hempson, G.P. and Lehmann, C., 2019. A unified framework for plant life history strategies shaped by fire and herbivory. New Phytologist.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S., Donaldson, J.E. and Lehmann, C.E., 2019. Alternate Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability–Flammability Trade-Offs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(4), pp.286-290.
Smit, I.P. and Archibald, S., 2019. Herbivore culling influences spatio‐temporal patterns of fire in a semiarid savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(3), pp.711-721.
Probert, J.R., Parr, C.L., Holdo, R.M., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Hopcraft, G.C., Hempson, G.P. and Morrison, T.A., 2019. Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti‐Mara ecosystem. Global Change Biology.
Lehmann, C.E., Griffith, D.M., Simpson, K.J., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Beerling, D.J., Bond, W.J., Denton, E., Edwards, E.J., Forrestel, E.J. and Fox, D.L., 2019. Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space. BioRxiv, p.583625.
Johnson, C.N., Prior, L.D., Archibald, S., Poulos, H.M., Barton, A.M., Williamson, G.J. and Bowman, D.M., 2018. Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1761), p.20170443.
Hempson, G.P., Parr, C.L., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Mustaphi, C.J.C., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Morrison, T.A., Probert, J. and Beale, C.M., 2018. Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity. Ecography, 41(6), pp.889-899.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S., Donaldson, J.E. and Lehmann, C.E., 2019. Alternate Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability–Flammability Trade-Offs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(4), pp.286-290.
Donaldson, J.E., Archibald, S., Govender, N., Pollard, D., Luhdo, Z. and Parr, C.L., 2018. Ecological engineering through fire‐herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(1), pp.225-235.
Stevens, N., Archibald, S.A. and Bond, W., 2018. Transplant experiments point to fire regime as limiting savanna tree distribution. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, p.137.
Linder, H.P., Lehmann, C.E., Archibald, S., Osborne, C.P. and Richardson, D.M., 2018. Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation. Biological Reviews, 93(2), pp.1125-1144.
McGranahan, D.A., Archibald, S., Kirkman, K.P. and O’Connor, T.G., 2018. A native C 3 grass alters fuels and fire spread in montane grassland of South Africa. Plant Ecology, pp.1-12.
Archibald, S., Lehmann, C.E.R., Belcher, C.M., Bond, W.J., Bradstock, R.A., Daniau, A.L., Dexter, K.G., Forrestel, E.J., Greve, M., He, T. and Higgins, S.I.,et al 2018. Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), p.033003.
Beale, C.M., Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Morrison, T.A., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Hempson, G.P., Probert, J. and Parr, C.L., 2018. Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas. Ecology Letters.
Griffith, D.M., Lehmann, C.E., Strömberg, C.A., Parr, C.L., Pennington, R.T., Sankaran, M., Ratnam, J., Still, C.J., Powell, R.L., Hanan, N.P. and Nippert, J.B., 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science, 358(6365), p.eaao1309.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S. and Bond, W.J., 2017. The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa. Scientific Reports, 7(1), p.17196.
Donaldson, J.E., Archibald, S., Govender, N., Pollard, D., Luhdo, Z. and Parr, C.L., 2017. Ecological engineering through fire‐herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Hempson, G.P., Parr, C.L., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Mustaphi, C.J.C., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Morrison, T.A., Probert, J., Beale, C.M., 2017. Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity. Ecography (Cop.).
Lehmann, C. E., Archibald, S., Vorontsova, M. S., Hempson, G. P., & Wieczorkowski, J. D. (2022). “Manisa bozaka” or “Counting grass”: Global Grassy Group guide to understanding and measuring the functional and taxonomic composition of ground layer plants.
White, J. D., Stevens, N., Fisher, J. T., Archibald, S., & Reynolds, C. (2022). Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa. People and Nature.
Voysey, M.D., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Donaldson, J.E., Carla Staver, A. and Greve, M., 2021. The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology, 109(2), pp.913-926.
Simpson, K.J., Jardine, E.C., Archibald, S., Forrestel, E.J., Lehmann, C.E., Thomas, G.H. and Osborne, C.P., 2021. Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders. New Phytologist, 230(2), pp.832-844.
Voysey, M. D., Archibald, S., Bond, W. J., Donaldson, J. E., Carla Staver, A., & Greve, M. 2021. The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology, 109(2), pp.913-926.
Wigley, B.J., Charles-Dominique, T., Hempson, G.P., Stevens, N., te Beest, M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Bunney, K., Coetsee, C., Donaldson, J. and Fidelis, A., 2021. Corrigendum to: A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany, 69(2), pp.110-110.
Wigley, B.J., Charles-Dominique, T., Hempson, G.P., Stevens, N., TeBeest, M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Bunney, K., Coetsee, C., Donaldson, J. and Fidelis, A., 2021. A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(8), pp.473-531.
Kelly, L.T., Giljohann, K.M., Duane, A., Aquilué, N., Archibald, S., Batllori, E., Bennett, A.F., Buckland, S.T., Canelles, Q., Clarke, M.F. and Fortin, M.J., 2020. Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Science, 370(6519).
Voysey, M.D., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Donaldson, J.E., Carla Staver, A. and Greve, M., The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Ecology.
Simpson, K.J., Jardine, E.C., Archibald, S., Forrestel, E.J., Lehmann, C.E., Thomas, G.H. and Osborne, C.P., 2020. Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders. New Phytologist.
Alvarado, S.T., Andela, N., Silva, T.S. and Archibald, S., 2020. Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), pp.331-344.
Hantson, S., Kelley, D.I., Arneth, A., Harrison, S.P., Archibald, S., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Lasslop, G., Li, F. and Mangeon, S., 2020. Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(7), pp.3299-3318.
Glennon, K.L., White, J., Reynolds, C., Risenga, I., Pillay, N., Archibald, S., Balkwill, K., Byrne, M., Cron, G., Engelbrecht, H. and Fisher, J., 2020. Misinterpretation of why black students do not pursue studies in the biological sciences. South African Journal of Science, 116(SPE), pp.1-3.
Botha, M., Archibald, S. and Greve, M., 2020. What drives grassland-forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture.
Lasslop, G., Hantson, S., Harrison, S.P., Bachelet, D., Burton, C., Forkel, M., Forrest, M., Li, F., Melton, J.R., Yue, C. and Archibald, S., 2020. Global ecosystems and fire: multi‐model assessment of fire‐induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction. Global Change Biology.
Siebert, F., Bombo, A.B., Archibald, S., Greve, M. and Fidelis, A., 2019. Introducing bud bank and below-ground plant organ research to South Africa: Report on a workshop and the way forward. South African Journal of Science, 115(11-12), pp.1-2.
Alvarado, S.T., Andela, N., Silva, T.S. and Archibald, S., 2020. Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), pp.331-344.
Veldman, J.W., Aleman, J.C., Alvarado, S.T., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Boutton, T.W., Buchmann, N., Buisson, E., Canadell, J.G. and de Sá Dechoum, M., 2019. Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science, 366(6463), p.eaay7976.
Donaldson, J.E., Parr, C.L., Mangena, E.H. and Archibald, S., 2019. Droughts decouple African savanna grazers from their preferred forage with consequences for grassland productivity. Ecosystems, pp.1-13.
Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Hoffmann, W., Lehmann, C., Staver, C. and Stevens, N., 2019. Distribution and determinants of savannas. Savanna woody plants and large herbivores, pp.1-24.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S. and Staver, C., 2019. Fire and Browsers in Savannas: Traits, Interactions, and Continent‐Level Patterns. Savanna Woody Plants and Large Herbivores, pp.439-468.
Archibald, S., Hempson, G.P. and Lehmann, C., 2019. A unified framework for plant life history strategies shaped by fire and herbivory. New Phytologist.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S., Donaldson, J.E. and Lehmann, C.E., 2019. Alternate Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability–Flammability Trade-Offs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(4), pp.286-290.
Smit, I.P. and Archibald, S., 2019. Herbivore culling influences spatio‐temporal patterns of fire in a semiarid savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(3), pp.711-721.
Probert, J.R., Parr, C.L., Holdo, R.M., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Hopcraft, G.C., Hempson, G.P. and Morrison, T.A., 2019. Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti‐Mara ecosystem. Global Change Biology.
Lehmann, C.E., Griffith, D.M., Simpson, K.J., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Beerling, D.J., Bond, W.J., Denton, E., Edwards, E.J., Forrestel, E.J. and Fox, D.L., 2019. Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space. BioRxiv, p.583625.
Johnson, C.N., Prior, L.D., Archibald, S., Poulos, H.M., Barton, A.M., Williamson, G.J. and Bowman, D.M., 2018. Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1761), p.20170443.
Hempson, G.P., Parr, C.L., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Mustaphi, C.J.C., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Morrison, T.A., Probert, J. and Beale, C.M., 2018. Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity. Ecography, 41(6), pp.889-899.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S., Donaldson, J.E. and Lehmann, C.E., 2019. Alternate Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability–Flammability Trade-Offs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(4), pp.286-290.
Donaldson, J.E., Archibald, S., Govender, N., Pollard, D., Luhdo, Z. and Parr, C.L., 2018. Ecological engineering through fire‐herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(1), pp.225-235.
Stevens, N., Archibald, S.A. and Bond, W., 2018. Transplant experiments point to fire regime as limiting savanna tree distribution. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, p.137.
Linder, H.P., Lehmann, C.E., Archibald, S., Osborne, C.P. and Richardson, D.M., 2018. Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation. Biological Reviews, 93(2), pp.1125-1144.
McGranahan, D.A., Archibald, S., Kirkman, K.P. and O’Connor, T.G., 2018. A native C 3 grass alters fuels and fire spread in montane grassland of South Africa. Plant Ecology, pp.1-12.
Archibald, S., Lehmann, C.E.R., Belcher, C.M., Bond, W.J., Bradstock, R.A., Daniau, A.L., Dexter, K.G., Forrestel, E.J., Greve, M., He, T. and Higgins, S.I.,et al 2018. Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), p.033003.
Beale, C.M., Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Morrison, T.A., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Hempson, G.P., Probert, J. and Parr, C.L., 2018. Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas. Ecology Letters.
Griffith, D.M., Lehmann, C.E., Strömberg, C.A., Parr, C.L., Pennington, R.T., Sankaran, M., Ratnam, J., Still, C.J., Powell, R.L., Hanan, N.P. and Nippert, J.B., 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science, 358(6365), p.eaao1309.
Hempson, G.P., Archibald, S. and Bond, W.J., 2017. The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa. Scientific Reports, 7(1), p.17196.
Donaldson, J.E., Archibald, S., Govender, N., Pollard, D., Luhdo, Z. and Parr, C.L., 2017. Ecological engineering through fire‐herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Hempson, G.P., Parr, C.L., Archibald, S., Anderson, T.M., Mustaphi, C.J.C., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Morrison, T.A., Probert, J., Beale, C.M., 2017. Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity. Ecography (Cop.).
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