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Steven I. Higgins
Researcher at University of Bayreuth
Publications - 126
Citations - 15473
Steven I. Higgins is an academic researcher from University of Bayreuth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vegetation & Biome. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 121 publications receiving 13944 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven I. Higgins include University of the Witwatersrand & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ.
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TRY - a global database of plant traits
Jens Kattge,Sandra Díaz,Sandra Lavorel,Iain Colin Prentice,Paul Leadley,Gerhard Bönisch,Eric Garnier,Mark Westoby,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich,Ian J. Wright,Johannes H. C. Cornelissen,Cyrille Violle,Sandy P. Harrison,P.M. van Bodegom,Markus Reichstein,Brian J. Enquist,Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia,David D. Ackerly,Madhur Anand,Owen K. Atkin,Michael Bahn,Timothy R. Baker,Dennis D. Baldocchi,Renée M. Bekker,Carolina C. Blanco,Benjamin Blonder,William J. Bond,Ross A. Bradstock,Daniel E. Bunker,Fernando Casanoves,Jeannine Cavender-Bares,Jeffrey Q. Chambers,F. S. Chapin,Jérôme Chave,David A. Coomes,William K. Cornwell,Joseph M. Craine,B. H. Dobrin,Leandro da Silva Duarte,Walter Durka,James J. Elser,Gerd Esser,Marc Estiarte,William F. Fagan,Jingyun Fang,Fernando Fernández-Méndez,Alessandra Fidelis,Bryan Finegan,Olivier Flores,H. Ford,Dorothea Frank,Grégoire T. Freschet,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Rachael V. Gallagher,Walton A. Green,Alvaro G. Gutiérrez,Thomas Hickler,Steven I. Higgins,John G. Hodgson,Adel Jalili,Steven Jansen,Carlos Alfredo Joly,Andrew J. Kerkhoff,Don Kirkup,Kaoru Kitajima,Michael Kleyer,Stefan Klotz,Johannes M. H. Knops,Koen Kramer,Ingolf Kühn,Hiroko Kurokawa,Daniel C. Laughlin,Tali D. Lee,Michelle R. Leishman,Frederic Lens,Tanja Lenz,Simon L. Lewis,Jon Lloyd,Jon Lloyd,Joan Llusià,Frédérique Louault,Siyan Ma,Miguel D. Mahecha,Peter Manning,Tara Joy Massad,Belinda E. Medlyn,Julie Messier,Angela T. Moles,Sandra Cristina Müller,Karin Nadrowski,Shahid Naeem,Ülo Niinemets,S. Nöllert,A. Nüske,Romà Ogaya,Jacek Oleksyn,Vladimir G. Onipchenko,Yusuke Onoda,Jenny C. Ordoñez,Gerhard E. Overbeck,Wim A. Ozinga,Sandra Patiño,Susana Paula,Juli G. Pausas,Josep Peñuelas,Oliver L. Phillips,Valério D. Pillar,Hendrik Poorter,Lourens Poorter,Peter Poschlod,Andreas Prinzing,Raphaël Proulx,Anja Rammig,Sabine Reinsch,Björn Reu,Lawren Sack,Beatriz Salgado-Negret,Jordi Sardans,Satomi Shiodera,Bill Shipley,Andrew Siefert,Enio E. Sosinski,Jean-François Soussana,Emily Swaine,Nathan G. Swenson,Ken Thompson,Peter E. Thornton,Matthew S. Waldram,Evan Weiher,Michael T. White,S. White,S. J. Wright,Benjamin Yguel,Sönke Zaehle,Amy E. Zanne,Christian Wirth +136 more
TL;DR: TRY as discussed by the authors is a global database of plant traits, including morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs, which can be used for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography.
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Determinants of woody cover in African savannas
Mahesh Sankaran,Niall P. Hanan,Robert J. Scholes,Jayashree Ratnam,David J. Augustine,Brian S. Cade,Jacques Gignoux,Steven I. Higgins,Xavier Le Roux,Fulco Ludwig,Jonas Ardö,Feetham Banyikwa,Andries Bronn,Gabriela Bucini,Kelly K. Caylor,Michael B. Coughenour,Alioune Diouf,Wellington N. Ekaya,Christie J. Feral,Edmund C. February,Peter G. H. Frost,Pierre Hiernaux,Halszka Hrabar,Kristine L. Metzger,Herbert H. T. Prins,Susan Ringrose,William B. Sea,Jörg Tews,Jeff Worden,Nick Zambatis +29 more
TL;DR: It is shown, using data from 854 sites across Africa, that maximum woody cover in savannas receiving a mean annual precipitation (MAP) of less than ∼650 mm is constrained by, and increases linearly with, MAP.
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Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for grass–tree coexistence in savanna
TL;DR: Understanding grass–tree interactions in savanna requires consideration of the long-term effects of life history–disturbance interactions on demography, rather than the fine-scale effects of resource competition on physiological performance.
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Predicting Plant Migration Rates in a Changing World: The Role of Long-Distance Dispersal.
TL;DR: Although dispersal had the strongest effect on the predicted spread rate, it was showed that dispersal interacts strongly with plant life history, disturbance, and habitat loss in influencing the predicted rate of spread.
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Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents
Caroline E. R. Lehmann,Caroline E. R. Lehmann,T. Michael Anderson,Mahesh Sankaran,Mahesh Sankaran,Steven I. Higgins,Steven I. Higgins,Sally Archibald,Sally Archibald,William A. Hoffmann,Niall P. Hanan,Richard J. Williams,Roderick J. Fensham,Jeanine Maria Felfili,Lindsay B. Hutley,Jayashree Ratnam,José J. San José,R. Montes,Donald C. Franklin,Jeremy Russell-Smith,Casey M. Ryan,Giselda Durigan,Pierre Hiernaux,Ricardo Flores Haidar,David M. J. S. Bowman,William J. Bond +25 more
TL;DR: Using data from 2154 sites in savannas across Africa, Australia, and South America, it is found that increasing moisture availability drives increases in fire and tree basal area, whereas fire reduces tree basal Area.