Summary: Conundrums in mixed woody­herbaceous plant
systems
Joanna I. House1
*, Steve Archer2
, David D. Breshears3
, Robert J. Scholes4
and NCEAS Tree­
Grass Interactions Participants** 1
Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemie, Jena, Germany,
2
School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, 3
Earth
and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM,
USA, and 4
CSIR Forest Science and Technology, Division of Water, Environment and Forest
Technology, Ecosystem Management Services Program, Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract
Aims To identify approaches to improve our understanding of, and predictive capa-
bility for, mixed tree­grass systems. Elucidation of the interactions, dynamics and
determinants, and identification of robust generalizations that can be broadly applied to

Source: Archer, Steven R. - Savanna/Woodland Ecology Lab., School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
Lebreton, Jean-Dominique - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

Collections: Biology and Medicine; Environmental Sciences and Ecology