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| Title |
Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents
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| Published in |
Science, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1247355 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Caroline E. R. Lehmann, T. Michael Anderson, Mahesh Sankaran, Steven I. Higgins, Sally Archibald, William A. Hoffmann, Niall P. Hanan, Richard J. Williams, Roderick J. Fensham, Jeanine Felfili, Lindsay B. Hutley, Jayashree Ratnam, Jose San Jose, Ruben Montes, Don Franklin, Jeremy Russell-Smith, Casey M. Ryan, Giselda Durigan, Pierre Hiernaux, Ricardo Haidar, David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond |
| Abstract |
Ecologists have long sought to understand the factors controlling the structure of savanna vegetation. Using data from 2154 sites in savannas across Africa, Australia, and South America, we found that increasing moisture availability drives increases in fire and tree basal area, whereas fire reduces tree basal area. However, among continents, the magnitude of these effects varied substantially, so that a single model cannot adequately represent savanna woody biomass across these regions. Historical and environmental differences drive the regional variation in the functional relationships between woody vegetation, fire, and climate. These same differences will determine the regional responses of vegetation to future climates, with implications for global carbon stocks. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 29 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 8 | 28% |
| United States | 8 | 28% |
| Australia | 3 | 10% |
| South Africa | 1 | 3% |
| Madagascar | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 8 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 25 | 86% |
| Scientists | 4 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 860 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 18 | 2% |
| United States | 9 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| Sweden | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Argentina | 2 | <1% |
| India | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 817 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 173 | 20% |
| Researcher | 158 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 115 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 74 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 52 | 6% |
| Other | 152 | 18% |
| Unknown | 136 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 300 | 35% |
| Environmental Science | 246 | 29% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 79 | 9% |
| Engineering | 11 | 1% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 1% |
| Other | 44 | 5% |
| Unknown | 171 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 May 2022.
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#4,279
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Altmetric has tracked 25,378,162 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 82,868 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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