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- Bachelors Biology University of Cape Town
- Masters Ecology University of Pretoria
- PhD Conservation Biology Stellenbosch University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sally Archibald is a South African scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Witwatersrand. Her research primarily focuses on savanna ecosystems within the context of global climate change as well as the exploration of fire ecology and earth-system feedbacks. Archibald was the recipient of the 2012 Mercer Award for her co-authorship of the paper "Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states".
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Published Works
- The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States (2011) (1012)
- What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa (2009) (560)
- Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes (2013) (483)
- Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents (2014) (482)
- SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE: FIRE–GRAZER INTERACTIONS IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA (2005) (423)
- Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states. (2011) (419)
- Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome. (2011) (400)
- When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter? (2011) (354)
- The status and challenge of global fire modelling (2016) (283)
- Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa (2011) (269)
- Growing tall vs growing wide: tree architecture and allometry of Acacia karroo in forest, savanna, and arid environments (2003) (237)
- Leaf green-up in a semi-arid African savanna –separating tree and grass responses to environmental cues (2007) (235)
- Southern African Fire Regimes as Revealed by Remote Sensing (2010) (211)
- A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa (2015) (166)
- Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018) (156)
- Ecology of grazing lawns in Africa (2015) (152)
- Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data (2013) (145)
- Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannahs: overgrazing, global change or extinction aftershock? (2016) (144)
- Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database (2014) (144)
- Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene (2020) (142)
- Precipitation as driver of carbon fluxes in 11 African ecosystems (2008) (140)
- Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation (2018) (137)
- Climate and the inter-annual variability of fire in southern Africa: A meta-analysis using long-term field data and satellite-derived burnt area data (2010) (134)
- Confronting complexity: fire policy choices in South African savanna parks (2003) (131)
- Managing the human component of fire regimes: lessons from Africa (2016) (130)
- Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE – Part 1: simulating historical global burned area and fire regimes (2014) (123)
- Comment on “The global tree restoration potential” (2019) (115)
- Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa (2016) (105)
- African Grazing Lawns—How Fire, Rainfall, and Grazer Numbers Interact to Affect Grass Community States (2008) (97)
- Drivers of inter-annual variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange in a semi-arid savanna ecosystem, South Africa (2008) (92)
- The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa (2017) (88)
- Remotely sensed vegetation phenology for describing and predicting the biomes of South Africa (2011) (78)
- Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond (2015) (77)
- Field determination of biomass burning emission ratios and factors via open-path FTIR spectroscopy and fire radiative power assessment: headfire, backfire and residual smouldering combustion in African savannahs (2011) (77)
- Grazer movements: spatial and temporal responses to burning in a tall-grass African savanna (2004) (75)
- Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas: Rekindling the Wurrk Tradition (2011) (73)
- Validation of the MODIS burned-area products across different biomes in South Africa (2010) (70)
- Natural Hazards in a Changing World: A Case for Ecosystem-Based Management (2014) (69)
- Validation of the Two Standard MODIS Satellite Burned-Area Products and an Empirically-Derived Merged Product in South Africa (2014) (63)
- Identifying individual fires from satellite-derived burned area data (2009) (58)
- Fire ecology of C3 and C4 grasses depends on evolutionary history and frequency of burning but not photosynthetic type. (2015) (56)
- Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (2020) (52)
- A method for calculating the variance and confidence intervals for tree biomass estimates obtained from allometric equations (2011) (47)
- Ecological engineering through fire-herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns (2018) (46)
- Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas (2018) (46)
- Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world? (2018) (46)
- Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes” (2017) (45)
- A unified framework for plant life history strategies shaped by fire and herbivory. (2019) (42)
- Leaf greenup in a semi-arid African savanna – separating tree and grass responses to environmental cues (2007) (40)
- Do freeze events create a demographic bottleneck for Colophospermum mopane (2012) (36)
- Alternate Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability-Flammability Trade-Offs. (2019) (34)
- Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas. (2018) (33)
- Global ecosystems and fire: Multi‐model assessment of fire‐induced tree‐cover and carbon storage reduction (2020) (32)
- Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti‐Mara ecosystem (2019) (32)
- Emissions from Fire in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Magnitude of Sources, Their Variability and Uncertainty (2011) (31)
- Increasing temperatures can improve seedling establishment in arid-adapted savanna trees (2014) (28)
- Retrieval of Savanna Vegetation Canopy Height from ICESat-GLAS Spaceborne LiDAR With Terrain Correction (2013) (26)
- Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene: The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story (2017) (26)
- Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity (2018) (26)
- Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space (2019) (24)
- Influence of Using Date-Specific Values when Extracting Phenological Metrics from 8-day Composite NDVI Data (2007) (24)
- Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents (2019) (23)
- Herbivore culling influences spatio‐temporal patterns of fire in a semiarid savanna (2019) (22)
- Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (2020) (21)
- Methods to determine the impact of rainfall on fuels and burned area in southern African savannas (2010) (21)
- Savanna tree-grass interactions: A phenological investigation of green-up in relation to water availability over three seasons (2017) (19)
- Reassembly of the Large Predator Guild into Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (2017) (19)
- Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration (2022) (18)
- Evidence for facultative deciduousness in Colophospermum mopane in semi-arid African savannas (2016) (17)
- Temporal Changes in the Large Herbivore Fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (2017) (17)
- Corrigendum to: A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems (2020) (16)
- Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997–2010) (2016) (16)
- Assessing the frequency and drivers of early‐greening in broad‐leaved woodlands along a latitudinal gradient in southern Africa (2017) (15)
- The Abiotic Template for the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park's Landscape Heterogeneity (2017) (14)
- Distribution and Determinants of Savannas (2019) (13)
- Interactions between Fire and Ecosystem Processes (2017) (12)
- No two are the same: Assessing variability in broad-leaved savanna tree phenology, with watering, from 2012 to 2014 at Nylsvley, South Africa (2016) (12)
- Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders (2020) (12)
- What drives grassland‐forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture (2020) (11)
- The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns (2020) (10)
- Transplant Experiments Point to Fire Regime as Limiting Savanna Tree Distribution (2018) (10)
- Long-Term Phenology and Variability of Southern African Vegetation (2008) (9)
- The adaptive geometrey {i.e. geometry} of savanna trees : a comparative study of the architecture and life history of Acacia karroo Hayne. in savanna, forest, and arid karoo shrubland environments (1998) (8)
- A native C3 grass alters fuels and fire spread in montane grassland of South Africa (2018) (8)
- Demographics of Eucalyptus grandis and implications for invasion (2017) (8)
- Rhino Management Challenges: Spatial and Social Ecology for Habitat and Population Management (2017) (7)
- Modelling fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE: Part 1. Simulating historical global burned area and fire regime (2014) (7)
- Plant height and lifespan predict range size in southern African grasses (2021) (6)
- Functional Convergence in Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in Adjacent Savanna Vegetation Types of the Kruger National Park, South Africa (2010) (6)
- Elephant Management in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (2017) (6)
- Drowning in data, thirsty for information and starved for understanding: A biodiversity information hub for cooperative environmental monitoring in South Africa (2022) (6)
- Remotely sensed phenology for mapping biomes and vegetation functional types (2009) (6)
- Megaherbivores, Competition and Coexistence within the Large Herbivore Guild (2017) (5)
- Calculating the variance and prediction intervals for estimates obtained from allometric relationships (2010) (5)
- Detailed structural characterisation of the savanna flux site at Skukuza, South Africa (2009) (5)
- The functional ecology of grazing lawns: How grazers, termites, people and fire shape HiP's Savanna grassland Mosaic (2017) (5)
- Satellite derived phenology of southern Africa for 1985-2000 and functional classification of vegetation based on phenometrics (2009) (5)
- Climate Change adaptation plans for south afriCan Biomes (2016) (5)
- Identifying phenological functional types in savanna trees (2018) (4)
- Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics within the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park (2017) (4)
- Reduced global fire activity due to human demography slows global warming by enhanced land carbon uptake (2022) (4)
- Introducing bud bank and below-ground plant organ research to South Africa: Report on a workshop and the way forward (2019) (4)
- Biogeosciences Drivers of interannual variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange in a semi-arid savanna ecosystem , South Africa (2008) (3)
- Detecting inter-annual variability in the phenological characteristics of southern Africa’s vegetation using satellite imagery (2011) (3)
- Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks. (2022) (3)
- “Where there is a spark is there fire?: The importance of ignitions in determining fire regimes in southern Africa” (2008) (3)
- Browsing is a strong filter for savanna tree seedlings in their first growing season (2021) (3)
- Historic changes in the fire-rainfall relationship at a woodland-savanna transition zone in southern Africa (2022) (3)
- Droughts Decouple African Savanna Grazers from Their Preferred Forage with Consequences for Grassland Productivity (2019) (3)
- Fire regimes in southern Africa - determinants, drivers and feedbacks (2010) (3)
- An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa (2022) (2)
- Savanna fire regimes depend on grass trait diversity. (2022) (2)
- Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: a potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems (2022) (2)
- Influence of composite period and date of observation on phenological metrics extracted from MODIS data (2009) (2)
- Drought and fire determine juvenile and adult woody diversity and dominance in a semi‐arid African savanna (2022) (2)
- Effects of frequent burning on grass-grazer interactions in a mesic savanna (2003) (2)
- Anthropogenic Influences in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park: From Early Times to Recent Management (2017) (2)
- Misinterpretation of why black students do not pursue studies in the biological sciences (2020) (2)
- Book Review Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas: Rekindling the Wurrk Tradition By Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Whitehead and Peter Cooke (2009) (2011) (2)
- A tribute to Winston Smuts Watts Trollope – a firebrand and visionary in fire research (2022) (1)
- Modelling global burned area and fire regime (2014) (1)
- What drives grassland-forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture (2020) (1)
- Characterising the germination niche of two common savanna trees (2013) (1)
- Ten years to restore a planet (2020) (1)
- The fire-vegetation-climate system - how ecology can contribute to earth system science (2013) (1)
- A Spatial SEIR Model for COVID-19 in South Africa (2021) (1)
- Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire (2022) (1)
- Estimation of net ecosystem exchange at the Skukuza flux site, Kruger National Park, South Africa (2011) (1)
- Fire and Browsers in Savannas (2019) (1)
- Quantifying the environmental limits to fire spread in grassy ecosystems (2022) (1)
- Identifying phenological functional types of semi-arid savanna trees (2015) (0)
- Fire-grazer interactions in a Highveld Grassland (Looking at the long term impacts) (Platform) (2016) (0)
- Lessons from a century of evidence-based fire management in grassy ecosystems (2022) (0)
- Defining global syndromes of fire and the relationship of these to biomes, climate and human activity (2012) (0)
- An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa (2022) (0)
- Grazing lawns and overgrazing in frequently grazed grass communities (2022) (0)
- Tree stress in the pre-rain period - Initial analysis of the costs of early-greening (2011) (0)
- Global Multi-Model Estimates of Fire-induced Tree Cover Reduction and Acceleration of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle (2019) (0)
- ECOLOGICAL SOUNDING When is a ‘ forest ’ a savanna , and why does it matter ? (2011) (0)
- Assessing the prevalence of early-greening in Burkea africana woodlands across southern Africa using MODIS NDVI over 14 years (2015) (0)
- Biophysical controls on evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in natural, semi-natural and managed African ecosystems (2013) (0)
- Supplementary material to "Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project" (2020) (0)
- Managing the changing risk of fire in the South African landscape (2008) (0)
- A native C3 grass alters fuels and fire spread in montane grassland of South Africa (2018) (0)
- Grassy Ecosystem States Are Determined by Palatability [ 82 _ TD $ DIFF ] – Flammability Trade-Offs (2019) (0)
- Review for "Herbivore dung stoichiometry drives competition between savanna trees and grasses" (2020) (0)
- From bush encroachment to biome switch – what processes and feedbacks underlie the point of no return? (Keynote Address) (2016) (0)
- Seasonal changes of water carbon relations in savanna ecosystems (2011) (0)
- Changes in ground-based solar ultraviolet radiation during fire episodes: a case study (2013) (0)
- Comment on bg-2020-476 (2021) (0)
- The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa (2017) (0)
- Fire and herbivory as drivers of grass community transitions in a semi-arid savanna (Platform) (2016) (0)
- Integrating water and carbon fluxes at the ecosystem scale across African ecosystems (2013) (0)
- Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa (2022) (0)
- Alternate grassland states are determined by palatability-flammability trade-offs (2019) (0)
- Increasing temperatures can improve seedling establishment in arid-adapted savanna trees (2014) (0)
- Research review A unified framework for plant life-history strategies shaped by fire and herbivory (2019) (0)
- Droughts Decouple African Savanna Grazers from Their Preferred Forage with Consequences for Grassland Productivity (2019) (0)
- Gendron Perception and Reward Life Span and Physiology Are Modulated by Sexual Drosophila (2014) (0)
- Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Applied Research for Enhancing Human Well-Being and Environmental Stewardship: Using Complexity Thinking in Southern Africa Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond (2015) (0)
- Further Details on Zulu Place Names in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (2017) (0)
- Review for "The dynamics of vegetation grazed by a food‐limited population of Soay sheep on St Kilda" (2021) (0)
- Investigating the Aquatic weeds on the Westlake Wetland: Detrimental effects and management options (1998) (0)
- Life history strategy schemes in consumer-controlled grassy ecosystems (2018) (0)
- Wildlife Disease Dynamics in Carnivore and Herbivore Hosts in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (2017) (0)
- Consequences of grazing resistance adaptations for Rhodohypoxis baurii var. platypetala population genetics (2018) (0)
- Integrating Plant Evolution into the Study of Fire in the Earth System (2014) (0)
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