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Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

Published:2014-01-31 Issue:6170 Volume:343 Page:548-552
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Lehmann Caroline E. R.¹²,Anderson T. Michael³,Sankaran Mahesh⁴⁵,Higgins Steven I.⁶⁷,Archibald Sally⁸⁹,Hoffmann William A.¹⁰,Hanan Niall P.¹¹,Williams Richard J.¹²,Fensham Roderick J.¹³,Felfili Jeanine¹⁴,Hutley Lindsay B.¹⁵,Ratnam Jayashree⁴,San Jose Jose¹⁶,Montes Ruben¹⁷,Franklin Don¹⁵,Russell-Smith Jeremy¹⁵,Ryan Casey M.²,Durigan Giselda¹⁸,Hiernaux Pierre¹⁹,Haidar Ricardo¹⁴,Bowman David M. J. S.²⁰,Bond William J.²¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia.

2. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK.

3. Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, 226 Winston Hall, Box 7325 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.

4. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560 065, India.

5. School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

6. Institute for Physical Geography, J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.

7. Department of Botany, University of Otago, Post Office Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.

8. Natural Resources and the Environment, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Post Office Box 395, Pretoria, South Africa.

9. School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Post Office WITS, 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa.

10. Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

11. Geographic Information Science Centre of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.

12. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia.

13. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.

14. Forestry Department, University of Brasilia, Brasilia 70919-970, DF–Brazil.

15. Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0810, Australia.

16. Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela.

17. Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela.

18. Laboratório de Ecologia e Hidrologia Florestal, Floresta Estadual de Assis, Instituto Florestal, 19802-970 - Assis - SP Brazil.

19. Géosciences Environnement Toulouse Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Université de Toulouse, CNRS 31401, Toulouse, France.

20. School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.

21. Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa.

Abstract

Surveying Savannas Savannas are structurally similar across the three major continents where they occur, leading to the assumption that the factors controlling vegetation structure and function are broadly similar, too. Lehmann et al. (p. 548 ) report the results of an extensive analysis of ground-based tree abundance in savannas, sampled at more than 2000 sites in Africa, Australia, and South America. All savannas, independent of region, shared a common functional property in the way that moisture and fire regulated tree abundance. However, despite qualitative similarity in the moisture–fire–tree-biomass relationships among continents, key quantitative differences exist among the three regions, presumably as a result of unique evolutionary histories and climatic domains.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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