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Sally Archibald is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and specializes in environmental science, with a particular focus on fire effects on ecosystems. Their research spans over 86 publications primarily contributing to fields such as global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics including fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, rangeland management and livestock ecology, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate change policy and economics.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sally Archibald include:

  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene, 2020, Science
  • Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration, 2022, Science
  • Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Global ecosystems and fire: Multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree-cover and carbon storage reduction, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • State of Wildfires 2023-2024, 2024, Earth System Science Data

Sally Archibald frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, including Gareth P. Hempson, Nicola Stevens, William J. Bond, Catherine L. Parr, and Jason E. Donaldson. These collaborators have contributed multiple joint publications enhancing the scope of fire ecology and environmental science research.

The scientist often publishes in notable venues such as the African Journal of Range and Forage Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states.

    A. Carla Staver;Sally Archibald;Simon A. Levin

  • What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

    Sally Archibald;David P. Roy;Brian W. van Wilgen;Robert J. Scholes

  • Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Jose L. Gómez-Dans;Ross A. Bradstock

  • 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

  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Luke T. Kelly;Katherine M. Giljohann;Andrea Duane;Nuria Aquilue

  • Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

    Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Sally A. Archibald;William A. Hoffmann;William J. Bond

  • SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE: FIRE–GRAZER INTERACTIONS IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA

    S Archibald;W J Bond;William Stock;D H Fairbanks

  • Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states.

    A. Carla Staver;Sally Archibald;Simon Asher Levin

  • When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

    Jayashree Ratnam;Jayashree Ratnam;William J. Bond;Rod J. Fensham;William A. Hoffmann

  • The status and challenge of global fire modelling

    Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

  • Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

    Sally Archibald;A. Carla Staver;Simon Asher Levin

  • Growing tall vs growing wide: tree architecture and allometry of Acacia karroo in forest, savanna, and arid environments

    Sally Archibald;William J. Bond

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa.

    Gareth P. Hempson;Gareth P. Hempson;Sally Archibald;William J. Bond

  • Leaf green-up in a semi-arid African savanna -separating tree and grass responses to environmental cues

    S. Archibald;R.J. Scholes

  • Southern African Fire Regimes as Revealed by Remote Sensing

    S. Archibald;S. Archibald;R. J. Scholes;R. J. Scholes;David P. Roy;G. Roberts

  • Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation

    H. P. Linder;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Sally Archibald;Colin P. Osborne

  • Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration

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  • Ecology of grazing lawns in Africa

    Gareth P. Hempson;Gareth P. Hempson;Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;William J. Bond;William J. Bond;Roger P. Ellis

  • Managing the human component of fire regimes: lessons from Africa.

    Sally Archibald

  • Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannahs: overgrazing, global change or extinction aftershock?

    Nicola Stevens;Nicola Stevens;Nicola Stevens;B. F. N. Erasmus;S. Archibald;S. Archibald;W. J. Bond;W. J. Bond

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Caroline E. R. Lehmann University of Edinburgh
Robert J. Scholes
Robert J. Scholes University of the Witwatersrand
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
William A. Hoffmann
William A. Hoffmann North Carolina State University
Konrad J Wessels
Konrad J Wessels George Mason University
A. Carla Staver
A. Carla Staver Yale University
T. Michael Anderson
T. Michael Anderson Wake Forest University
Colin P. Osborne
Colin P. Osborne University of Sheffield

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