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Fire Ecology Fire plays a fundamental role in shaping the structure and
function of many ecosystems worldwide. Our work in this area has
focused on plant population dynamics, evolutionary ecology of fire response,
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Publications Hoffmann, W.A., R. Adasme, M. Haridasan, M.
Carvalho, E. L. Geiger, M. A. B. Pereira, S. G. Gotsch, and A. C. Franco
(2009). Tree
topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of alternate stable states at savanna-forest
boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil. Ecology,
90:1327-1337. Marchin,
R.M., Bhandari, R.K., Wall, W.A., Hohmann, M.G., Gray, J.B., & Hoffmann,
W.A. (2009) Are rare species less shade tolerant than common species in
fire-prone environments? A test with seven Amorpha (Fabaceae) species.
Plant
Ecology, 205:
249-260. Lahoreau, G., S.
Barot, J. Gignoux, W.A. Hoffmann, S.A. Setterfield, and P. R. Williams. 2006. Positive
effect of seed size on seedling survival in fire-prone savannas of Hoffmann, W.A., B. Orthen, and P.K.V. Nascimento. 2003. Comparative fire ecology of tropical savanna and forest trees. Functional Ecology, 17: 720-726. Hoffmann,
W.A. and O.T. Solbrig. 2003. The
role of topkill in the differential response of savanna woody species to fire.
Hoffmann, W.A., W. Schroeder and R.B. Jackson. 2003. Regional feedbacks among climate, fire, and tropical deforestation. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 108, DOI: 2003JD003494. Hoffmann, W.A. and Moreira, A.G. 2002 The Role of Fire in
Population Dynamics of Woody Plants, Pp. 159-177 in P.S. Oliveira and R.J.
Marquis (eds.) The
Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna, Columbia University Press, New York.
Hoffmann, W.A. 2002. Direct and indirect effects of fire on radial growth of cerrado savanna trees. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:137-142. Hoffmann, W. A., W.
Schroeder, and R. B. Jackson. 2002. Positive feedbacks of fire, climate, and vegetation change and
the conversion of tropical savannas. Geophysical Research
Letters, 15: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015424 Hoffmann, W.A., F.A. Hoffmann, W. A. 2000. Post-establishment seedling success of savanna and forest species in the Brazilian Cerrado. Biotropica, 32(1):62-69. Hoffmann, W. A. 1999. Fire and population dynamics of woody plants in a Neotropical savanna: matrix model predictions. Ecology 80:1354-1369. Hoffmann, W. A. 1998. Post-burn
reproduction of woody plants in a Neotropical savanna: the relative
importance of sexual and vegetative reproduction. Journal of Applied
Ecology 35:422-433. Hoffmann, W. A. 1996. The
effects of cover and fire on seedling establishment in a neotropical savanna.
Journal of Ecology. 84:383-393 |
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