Publications
Shared Drivers but Divergent Ecological Responses: Insights from Long-Term Experiments in Mesic Savanna Grasslands. BioScience. 66:666–682. smith_et_al_bioscience_2016.pdf (1.6 MB)
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2016. Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25:793–804. kirkman_et_al_j_veg_sci_2014.pdf (446.27 KB)
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2014. Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna-grassland. Ecology.
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2020. Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology. 95:808–816. koerner_etal_2014_ecology.pdf (4.55 MB)
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2014. Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia. 175:293–303. eby_et_al_oecologia_2014.pdf (428.54 KB)
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2014. Herbivore size matters for productivity–richness relationships in African savannas. Journal of Ecology. 105:674–686.
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2017. Fire frequency drives habitat selection by a diverse herbivore guild impacting top–down control of plant communities in an African savanna. Oikos. burkepile_et_al_oikos_2016.pdf (1.78 MB)
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2016. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. :1.
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