| TRY–a global database of plant traits J Kattge, S Diaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice, P Leadley, G Bönisch, E Garnier, ... Global change biology 17 (9), 2905-2935, 2011 | 2532 | 2011 |
| Determinants of woody cover in African savannas M Sankaran, NP Hanan, RJ Scholes, J Ratnam, DJ Augustine, BS Cade, ... Nature 438 (7069), 846-849, 2005 | 2024 | 2005 |
| Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for grass–tree coexistence in savanna SI Higgins, WJ Bond, WSW Trollope Journal of Ecology 88 (2), 213-229, 2000 | 1232 | 2000 |
| Predicting plant migration rates in a changing world: the role of long‐distance dispersal SI Higgins, DM Richardson The American Naturalist 153 (5), 464-475, 1999 | 672 | 1999 |
| Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents CER Lehmann, TM Anderson, M Sankaran, SI Higgins, S Archibald, ... Science 343 (6170), 548-552, 2014 | 596 | 2014 |
| Are long-distance dispersal events in plants usually caused by nonstandard means of dispersal? SI Higgins, R Nathan, ML Cain Ecology 84 (8), 1945-1956, 2003 | 576 | 2003 |
| Effects of four decades of fire manipulation on woody vegetation structure in savanna SI Higgins, WJ Bond, EC February, A Bronn, DIW Euston-Brown, B Enslin, ... Ecology 88 (5), 1119-1125, 2007 | 521 | 2007 |
| Next‐generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology S Scheiter, L Langan, SI Higgins New Phytologist 198 (3), 957-969, 2013 | 449 | 2013 |
| Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach S Scheiter, SI Higgins Global Change Biology 15 (9), 2224-2246, 2009 | 439 | 2009 |
| When is a ‘forest’a savanna, and why does it matter? J Ratnam, WJ Bond, RJ Fensham, WA Hoffmann, S Archibald, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (5), 653-660, 2011 | 430 | 2011 |
| Predicting the landscape‐scale distribution of alien plants and their threat to plant diversity SI Higgins, DM Richardson, RM Cowling, TH Trinder‐Smith Conservation Biology 13 (2), 303-313, 1999 | 410 | 1999 |
| Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally SI Higgins, S Scheiter Nature 488 (7410), 209-212, 2012 | 395 | 2012 |
| Ecology of invasive plants: state of the art. M Rejmánek, DM Richardson, SI Higgins, MJ Pitcairn, E Grotkopp, ... Invasive alien species: a new synthesis, 2005 | 376 | 2005 |
| Pines as invaders in the southern hemisphere DM Richardson, SI Higgins Ecology and biogeography of Pinus, 450-473, 1998 | 355 | 1998 |
| Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes T Jucker, J Caspersen, J Chave, C Antin, N Barbier, F Bongers, ... Global change biology 23 (1), 177-190, 2017 | 351 | 2017 |
| Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology R Buitenwerf, L Rose, SI Higgins Nature Climate Change 5 (4), 364-368, 2015 | 288 | 2015 |
| A review of models of alien plant spread SI Higgins, DM Richardson Ecological modelling 87 (1), 249-265, 1996 | 271 | 1996 |
| Pine invasions in the southern hemisphere: modelling interactions between organism, environment and disturbance SI Higgins, DM Richardson Plant Ecology 135 (1), 79-93, 1998 | 257 | 1998 |
| Modeling invasive plant spread: the role of plant-environment interactions and model structure SI Higgins, DM Richardson, RM Cowling Ecology 77 (7), 2043-2054, 1996 | 254 | 1996 |
| The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates JC Svenning, D Gravel, RD Holt, FM Schurr, W Thuiller, T Münkemüller, ... Ecography 37 (12), 1198-1209, 2014 | 248 | 2014 |
William BondProfessor, Biological Sciences, University of Cape TownVerified email at uct.ac.za
