William A. Hoffmann

Effects and response of the Cerrado ground-layer to frost along the canopy cover gradient

Lima Pilon, N. A., Cava, M. G. B., Hoffmann, W. A., Abreu, R. C. R., Rossatto, D. R., & Durigan, G. (2022, September 21). OECOLOGIA.

Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna

Flake, S. W., Honda, E. A., Pilon, N. A. L., Hoffmann, W. A., & Durigan, G. (2022, January 20). JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY.

Characterizing past fire occurrence in longleaf pine ecosystems with the Mid-Infrared Burn Index and a Random Forest classifier

FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 500.

Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 5(4), 504-+.

Facilitation by isolated trees triggers woody encroachment and a biome shift at the savanna-forest transition

Abreu, R. C. R., Durigan, G., Melo, A. C. G., Pilon, N. A. L., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2021, August 28). JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY.

Fire and drought: Shifts in bark investment across a broad geographical scale for Neotropical savanna trees

BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY, 56, 110–121.

Hydraulic segmentation does not protect stems from acute water loss during fire

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 41(10), 1785–1793.

Savannas are not old fields: Functional trajectories of forest expansion in a fire-suppressed Brazilian savanna are driven by habitat generalists

Flake, S. W., Abreu, R. C. R., Durigan, G., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2021, May 17). FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY.

Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover

JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 32(1).

The diversity of post-fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer

JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 109(1), 154–166.

The effects of tree cover and soil nutrient addition on native herbaceous richness in a neotropical savanna

BIOTROPICA, 53(3), 888–895.

The role of morpho-physiological traits in frost tolerance of neotropical savanna trees

De Antonio, A. C., Hoffmann, W. A., & Rossatto, D. R. (2021, June 18). TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.

Better lucky than good: How savanna trees escape the fire trap in a variable world

ECOLOGY, 101(1).

Flammability thresholds or flammability gradients? Determinants of fire across savanna-forest transitions

NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 228(3), 910–921.

No Net Loss of Species Diversity After Prescribed Fires in the Brazilian Savanna

FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE, 3.

Allocation to leaf area and sapwood area affects water relations of co-occurring savanna and forest trees (vol 163, pg 291, 2010)

Gotsch, S. G., Geiger, E. L., Franco, A. C., Goldstein, G., Meinzer, F. C., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2019, February). OECOLOGIA, Vol. 189, pp. 563–563.

Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"

Veldman, J. W., Aleman, J. C., Alvarado, S. T., Anderson, T. M., Archibald, S., Bond, W. J., … Zaloumis, N. P. (2019, October 18). SCIENCE, Vol. 366.

Rare frost events reinforce tropical savanna-forest boundaries

JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 107(1), 468–477.

Quantifying the short-term flowering after fire in some plant communities of a cerrado grassland

PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY, 11(3), 259–266.

Sensitivity of woody carbon stocks to bark investment strategy in Neotropical savannas and forests

BIOGEOSCIENCES, 15(1), 233–243.

Assessing, water-related plant traits to explain slow-wilting in soybean PI 471938

JOURNAL OF CROP IMPROVEMENT, 31(3), 400–417.

Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes"

Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change

ECOLOGY LETTERS, 20(3), 307–316.

Invasibility of a fire-maintained savanna-wetland gradient by non-native, woody plant species

FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 405, 229–237.

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 3(8).

Trait shifts associated with the subshrub life-history strategy in a tropical savanna

OECOLOGIA, 185(2), 281–291.

Wood decay and the persistence of resprouting species in pyrophilic ecosystems

TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, 31(1), 237–245.

Enhancing Heat Tolerance of the Little Dogwood Cornus canadensis L. f. with Introduction of a Superoxide Reductase Gene from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

Frontiers in Plant Science, 7.

Shifts in functional traits elevate risk of fire-driven tree dieback in tropical savanna and forest biomes

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 22(3), 1235–1243.

Stomatal acclimation to vapour pressure deficit doubles transpiration of small tree seedlings with warming

Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(10), 2221–2234.

Where fire stops: vegetation structure and microclimate influence fire spread along an ecotonal gradient

PLANT ECOLOGY, 217(6), 631–644.

Bacteria species and solution pH effect postharvest quality of cut Zinnia elegans

SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE, 194, 71–78.

RELATIVE BARK THICKNESS IS CORRELATED WITH TREE SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS ALONG A FIRE FREQUENCY GRADIENT

FIRE ECOLOGY, 11(1), 74–87.

Temperature alone does not explain phenological variation of diverse temperate plants under experimental warming

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 21(8), 3138–3151.

Are winter-active species vulnerable to climate warming? A case study with the wintergreen terrestrial orchid, Tipularia discolor

OECOLOGIA, 176(4), 1161–1172.

Carbon accumulation and nitrogen pool recovery during transitions from savanna to forest in central Brazil

ECOLOGY, 95(2), 342–352.

Evidence of population bottleneck in Astragalus michauxii (Fabaceae), a narrow endemic of the southeastern United States

Conservation Genetics, 15(1), 153–164.

Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents

Science, 343(6170), 548–552.

Size-dependent enhancement of water relations during post-fire resprouting

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 34(4), 404–414.

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 29(4), 205–213.

Can savannas become forests? A coupled analysis of nutrient stocks and fire thresholds in central Brazil

PLANT AND SOIL, 373(1-2), 829–842.

Current and Historical Variation in Wiregrass (Aristida stricta) Abundance and Distribution Is Not Detectable from Soil delta C-13 Measurements in Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) Savannas

CASTANEA, 78(1), 28–36.

Seasonal variation in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees in Central Brazil: implications for forest expansion into savanna

TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, 27(4), 1139–1150.

Caught in a fire trap: Recurring fire creates stable size equilibria in woody resprouters

ECOLOGY, 93(9), 2052–2060.

Demographic effects of fire on two endemic plant species in the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem

PLANT ECOLOGY, 213(7), 1093–1104.

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

[Review of ]. ECOLOGY LETTERS, 15(7), 759–768.

Fuels or microclimate? Understanding the drivers of fire feedbacks at savanna-forest boundaries

AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, 37(6), 634–643.

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 191(1), 197–209.

Distinct roles of savanna and forest tree species in regeneration under fire suppression in a Brazilian savanna

JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 22(2), 312–321.

Hydraulic failure and tree dieback are associated with high wood density in a temperate forest under extreme drought

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 17(8), 2731–2742.

Lost and Found: Remnants of the Big Savannah and Their Relationship to Wet Savannas in North Carolina

CASTANEA, 76(4), 348–363.

Recent vicariance and the origin of the rare, edaphically specialized Sandhills lily, Lilium pyrophilum (Liliaceae): evidence from phylogenetic and coalescent analyses

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 20(14), 2901–2915.

When is a 'forest' a savanna, and why does it matter?

GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, 20(5), 653–660.

Allocation to leaf area and sapwood area affects water relations of co-occurring savanna and forest trees

OECOLOGIA, 163(2), 291–301.

Drought-deciduous behavior reduces nutrient losses from temperate deciduous trees under severe drought

OECOLOGIA, 163(4), 845–854.

Effects of light and temperature on germination of Pyxidanthera brevifolia Wells (Diapensiaceae)

JOURNAL OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY, 137(4), 348–354.

Hydraulic lift in a Neotropical savanna: Experimental manipulation and model simulations

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 150(4), 629–639.

Not all forests are expanding over central Brazilian savannas

PLANT AND SOIL, 333(1-2), 431–442.

Are rare species less shade tolerant than common species in fire-prone environments? A test with seven Amorpha (Fabaceae) species

PLANT ECOLOGY, 205(2), 249–260.

Differences in growth patterns between co-occurring forest and savanna trees affect the forest-savanna boundary

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 23(4), 689–698.

Evapotranspiration and energy balance of Brazilian savannas with contrasting tree density

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 149(8), 1365–1376.

Size-dependent mortality in a Neotropical savanna tree: the role of height-related adjustments in hydraulic architecture and carbon allocation

PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT, 32(10), 1456–1466.

Stomatal traits of cerrado and gallery forest congeneric pairs growing in a transitional region in Central Brazil

ACTA BOTANICA BRASILICA, 23(2), 499–508.

Tree topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of savanna-forest boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil

ECOLOGY, 90(5), 1326–1337.

Controls on stand transpiration and soil water utilization along a tree density gradient in a Neotropical savanna

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 148(6-7), 839–849.

Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 14(9), 2108–2118.

Stem and leaf hydraulics of congeneric tree species from adjacent tropical savanna and forest ecosystems

OECOLOGIA, 155(3), 405–415.

The invasive grass, Melinis minutiflora, inhibits tree regeneration in a Neotropical savanna

AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, 33(1), 29–36.

Water economy of Neotropical savanna trees: six paradigms revisited

Goldstein, G., Meinzer, F. C., Bucci, S. J., Scholz, F. G., Franco, A. C., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2008, March). TREE PHYSIOLOGY, Vol. 28, pp. 395–404.

Positive effect of seed size on seedling survival in fire-prone savannas of Australia, Brazil and West Africa

JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY, 22, 719–722.

Long range lateral root activity by neo-tropical savanna trees

PLANT AND SOIL, 270(1-2), 169–178.

Seasonal leaf dynamics across a tree density gradient in a Brazilian savanna

OECOLOGIA, 145(2), 307–316.

Specific leaf area explains differences in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 19(6), 932–940.

Constraints to seedling success of savanna and forest trees across the savanna-forest boundary

OECOLOGIA, 140(2), 252–260.

Impact of the invasive alien grass Melinis minutiflora at the savanna-forest ecotone in the Brazilian Cerrado

DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, 10(2), 99–103.

Comparative fire ecology of tropical savanna and forest trees

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 17(6), 720–726.

Regional feedbacks among fire, climate, and tropical deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres, 108(D23).