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57
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2665
National Ranking
944

Overview

William A. Hoffmann is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research centers primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on ecological dynamics and fire effects on ecosystems.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

William A. Hoffmann's research spans several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their work, including:

  • The diversity of post-fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer (2020), Journal of Ecology
  • No Net Loss of Species Diversity After Prescribed Fires in the Brazilian Savanna (2020), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Flammability thresholds or flammability gradients? Determinants of fire across savanna-forest transitions (2020), New Phytologist
  • Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover (2020), Journal of Vegetation Science

Hoffmann collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors, including:

  • Giselda Durigan
  • Rodolfo Cesar Real de Abreu
  • Natashi A. L. Pilon
  • Davi Rodrigo Rossatto
  • Samuel W. Flake

Their publications appear predominantly in several journals that publish multiple papers by the author, such as:

  • Trees
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Tree Physiology
  • Biotropica

Best Publications

  • Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

    William A. Hoffmann;Erika L. Geiger;Sybil G. Gotsch;Davi R. Rossatto

  • Avoiding bias in calculations of relative growth rate.

    William A. Hoffmann;Hendrik Poorter

  • 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

  • Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

    Catherine L. Parr;Caroline E.R. Lehmann;Caroline E.R. Lehmann;William J. Bond;William A. Hoffmann

  • Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

  • Tree topkill, not mortality, governs the dynamics of savanna–forest boundaries under frequent fire in central Brazil

    William A. Hoffmann;Ryan Adasme;M. Haridasan;Marina T. de Carvalho

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

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

  • Post-burn reproduction of woody plants in a neotropical savanna: the relative importance of sexual and vegetative reproduction

    William A. Hoffmann

  • The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

    Rodolfo C. R. Abreu;William A. Hoffmann;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos;Natashi A. Pilon

  • Comparative fire ecology of tropical savanna and forest trees

    William A. Hoffmann;Birgit Orthen;Paula Kielse Vargas do Nascimento

  • FIRE AND POPULATION DYNAMICS OF WOODY PLANTS IN A NEOTROPICAL SAVANNA: MATRIX MODEL PROJECTIONS

    William A. Hoffmann

  • The role of topkill in the differential response of savanna woody species to fire

    William A Hoffmann;Otto T Solbrig

  • Vegetation–Climate Feedbacks in the Conversion of Tropical Savanna to Grassland

    William A. Hoffmann;Robert B. Jackson

  • Ecosystem rooting depth determined with caves and DNA

    R. B. Jackson;L. A. Moore;W. A. Hoffmann;W. T. Pockman

  • Hydraulic failure and tree dieback are associated with high wood density in a temperate forest under extreme drought

    William A. Hoffmann;Renée M. Marchin;Pamela Abit;On Lee Lau

  • Comparative growth analysis of tropical forest and savanna woody plants using phylogenetically independent contrasts

    William A. Hoffmann;Augusto C. Franco

  • 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

  • THE EFFECTS OF FIRE AND COVER ON SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT IN A NEOTROPICAL SAVANNA

    William A. Hoffmann

  • Specific leaf area explains differences in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees

    W. A. Hoffmann;A. C. Franco;M. Z. Moreira;M. Haridasan

Frequent Co-Authors

Augusto C. Franco
Augusto C. Franco University of Brasília
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Caroline E. R. Lehmann University of Edinburgh
Guillermo Goldstein
Guillermo Goldstein University of Miami
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Giselda Durigan
Giselda Durigan State University of Campinas
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Frederick C. Meinzer
Frederick C. Meinzer Oregon State University
Sandra J. Bucci
Sandra J. Bucci National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds

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