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Prof. W.J. Bond |
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Key Research Interests Processes most strongly influencing vegetation change in the past and present, including fire, vertebrate herbivory, climate extremes, atmospheric [CO2] and habitat fragmentation. Career BSc Hons (1970) University of Exeter ; MSc (1980) University of Cape Town ; PhD (1987) University of California , Los Angeles . Natural resource survey, Mozambique (1971-1974) Lake ecology, Cabora Bassa, Mozambique (1974-1976) Ecological research, Cape mountain catchments, Forestry Department (1976-1982; 1986-1987) Graduate studies, UCLA California Chaparral (1982-1986) Lecturer Botany Department, University of Cape Town (1988-1993) Professor, Botany Department, UCT (1993 - present) Professional Activities (1995-present) Board member (Chairman of research committee), National Botanical Institute, 1995-1999 Current research students Nikki Stevens (co-supervised with Barend Erasmus, Wits University). Change in the woody plant community in semi-arid savannas. Ben Wigley (co-supervised with Herve Fritz). Vertebrate browsing and plant functional traits. Leonard Masubelele (co-supervised with Timm Hoffmann). Environmental change in the eastern Karoo Midlands over the last 100 years. Glenn Moncrieff. The demographic impacts of browsing on woody plants in savannas: from individual branches to whole populations. Emma Gray. Thicket expansion and its effects on ecosystem goods and services. Nick Zaloumis. Grassland diversity and its restoration. Frans Radloff. (Stellenbosch University, co-supervised with Professor L Mucina). The ecology of large herbivores native to the coastal lowlands of the Fynbos Biome in the Western Cape, South Africa. Corli Coetsee (co-supervised by E. February) Long-term effects of fire on nitrogen cycling in a broad-leaf savanna, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Julia Wakeling (co-supervised with Mike Cramer): What determines altitudinal limits of savanna acacias? Diane Southey (co-supervised with Prof Les Underhill, Guy Midgley): Determinants of large fires in Cape Fynbos. Carla Staver (Fulbright scholar). Savanna tree dynamics. Vhalinavho Khavhagali: (co-supervised with Joe Craine) Pattern and process of broad-leaved tree colonisation into savannas. Alex Schutz: (Co-supervised with M. Cramer) Tree life history traits in savannas. Tim Aston: (Co-supervised with Ed February and Jeremy Midgley) Impacts of ground-water abstraction on the Cape flora. Ben Wigley (co-supervised with Timm Hoffman): Land use and bush encroachment in the Hluhluwe area. Publications include: Books Bond, W.J., van Wilgen, B.W. (1996) Fire and Plants. Chapman and Hall, London . (Volume 14 in the Population and Community biology series). Selected articles 2010 Bond WJ, Scott AC. 2010. Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous. New Phytologist (in press). doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03418.x Radloff FGT, Mucina L, Bond WJ, LeRoux PJ. 2010. Strontium isotope analyses of large herbivore habitat use in the Cape Fynbos region of South Africa. Oecologia 164: 567-578. Bond WJ. 2010. Do nutrient-poor soils inhibit development of forests? a nutrient stock analysis. Plant Soil 334:47-60 Bond, WJ. 2010. Consumer control by megafauna and fire. In: J. Terborgh, J.A. Estes (eds), Trophic cascades: predators, prey and the changing dynamics of nature. Island Press, Washington DC. Pp. 275-285. Bond WJ, Parr CL. 2010. Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes. Biological Conservation 143: 2395-2404 Edwards EJ, Osborne CP, Strömberg CAE, Smith SA, and the C4 Grasses Consortium 2010. The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science. Science 328:587-591. Coetsee C, Bond WJ, February EC. 2010. Frequent fire affects soil nitrogen and carbon in an African savanna by changing woody cover. Oecologia 162:1027-1034 Wigley BJ, Bond WJ, Hoffman MT. 2010. Thicket expansion in a South African savanna under divergent land use: local vs. global drivers? Global Change Biology 16, 964-976 Kgope BS, Bond WJ, Midgley GF. 2010. Growth responses of African savanna trees implicate atmospheric [CO2] as a driver of past and current changes in savanna tree cover. Austral Ecology 35: 451-463 Stock WD, Bond WJ, van de Vijver CADM. 2010. Herbivore and nutrient control of lawn and bunch grass distributions in a southern African savanna. Plant Ecology 206:15-27 Cramer MD, van Cauter A, Bond WJ. 2010. Growth of N2-fixing African savanna Acacia spp. is constrained by below-ground competition with grass. Journal of Ecology 2010, 98, 156-167 2009 Staver AC, Bond WJ, Stock WD, Van Rensburg SJ, Waldram MS. 2009. Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna. Ecological Applications 19: 1909-1919 Bowman DMJS, Balch JK, Artaxo P, Bond WJ, Carlson JM, et al. 2009. Fire in the Earth System. Science 324: 481-484. Schutz AEN, Bond WJ, Cramer MD. 2009. Juggling carbon: allocation patterns of a dominant tree in a fire-prone savanna. Oecologia 160:235-246 Wigley BJ, Cramer MD, Bond WJ. 2009. Sapling survival in a frequently burnt savanna: mobilisation of carbon reserves in Acacia karroo. Plant Ecology 2003:1-11 2008 Bond, W.J. 2008. What limits trees in C4 grasslands and savannas? Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 39:641–59 Waldram MS, Bond WJ, Stock WD. 2008. Ecological engineering by a mega-grazer: White Rhino impacts on a South African savanna. Ecosystems 11: 101-112. Bond, W.J., Silander J.A., Ranaivonasy J, Ratsirarson J. 2008. The antiquity of Madagascar ’s grasslands and the rise of C4 grassy biomes. J. Biogeogr. 35: 1743-1758 (see also a commentary on this paper by K. J. Willis, L. Gillson, M. Virah-Sawmy 2008, Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C4 grasslands in Madagascar. J. Biogeog 35: 1741-1742) Coetsee C, February EC, Bond WJ. 2008. Nitrogen availability is not affected by frequent fire in a South African savanna. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24: 647-654. 2007 Bond WJ, Silander JA. 2007. Springs and wire plants: anachronistic defences against Madagascar's extinct elephant birds. Proc Roy Soc B, 274: 1985-1992. (see commentary with artist’s depiction: Dempewolf H., Rieseberg LH. 2007. Adaptive evolution: the legacy of past giants. Current Biology 17 (17): R773-R774. http://www.current-biology.com/) Higgins SI, Bond WJ, February EC, Bronn A, Euston-Brown DIW, Enslin B, Govender N, Rademan L, O'Regan S, Potgieter ALF, Scheiter S, Sowry R, Trollope L, Trollope WSW. 2007. Effects of four decades of fire manipulation on woody vegetation structure in savanna. Ecology 88: 1119-1125. Krook, K., Bond, W., & Hockey, P. (2007). The effect of grassland shifts on the avifauna of a South African savanna. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 78: 271-279 Hendricks HH, Bond WJ, Midgley JJ, Novellie PA. 2007. Biodiversity conservation and pastoralism-reducing herd size in a communal livestock production system in Richtersveld National Park. J. Arid Env. 70: 718-727 2005 Bond, W.J., Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire as global ‘herbivore’: the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 387-394 Bond, W.J. 2005. Large parts of the world are brown or black: a different view on the ‘Green World’ hypothesis. J. Veg. Sci. 16: 261-266 (Invited perspectives paper) Archibald S, Bond W.J, Stock WD, Fairbanks DHK (2005) Shaping the landscape: Fire-grazer interactions in an African savanna. Ecological Applications 15: 96-109. Bond, WJ, Woodward FI, Midgley GF. 2005. The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire. New Phytologist 165:525-538 (See commentary on this paper in same issue: Bowman D. 2005. Understanding a flammable planet – climate, fire and global vegetation patterns. New Phyt 165:341-345) Hemborg, Å.M., Bond, W.J. 2005. Different rewards in female and male flowers can explain the evolution of sexual dimorphism in plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 97-109 Balmford, A., Bond, W.J. 2005. Trends in the state of nature and their implications for human well-being. Ecology Letters 8: 1218-1234. 2004 Archibald S, Bond WJ (2004) Grazer movements: spatial and temporal responses to burning in a tall-grass savanna system. Intl Jnl Wildland Fire 13: 377-385. Bond, W.J., Dickinson K.J.M, Mark, A.F. (2004). What limits the spread of fire-dependent vegetation? Evidence from geographic variation of serotiny in a New Zealand shrub. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13: 115-127. Bond WJ, Lee WG, Craine JM. (2004). Plant structural defences against avian browsers: the legacy of New Zealand ’s extinct moas. Oikos 104: 500-508. Uys, R., Bond, W.J., Everson, T.M. (2004) The effects of different fire regimes on plant diversity in southern African grasslands. Biological Conservation 118: 489-499. 2003 Craine, J., W. Bond, W. Lee, P. Reich, and S. Ollinger (2003) The resource economics of chemical and structural defenses across nitrogen supply gradients. Oecologia 442:547-556. Bond, WJ. 2001. Fires, Ecological Effects of. In Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Volume 2. Academic Press. Pp. 745-753. Bond, W.J., Archibald, S. (2003) Confronting complexity: fire policy choices in South African savanna parks. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12: 1-9. pdf Bond, W.J., Midgley, J.J. (2003) The evolutionary ecology of sprouting. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: S103–S114 pdf Archibald, S. Bond, W.J. (2003) Growing tall vs growing wide: tree architecture and allometry of Acacia karroo in forest, savanna, and arid environments. Oikos 102: 3-14. pdf Bond, W.J., Midgley, G.F., Woodward, F.I. (2003) The importance of low atmospheric CO 2 and fire in promoting the spread of grasslands and savannas. Global Change Biology 9:973-982 pdf Bond, W.J., Midgley, G.F., Woodward, F.I. (2003) What controls South African vegetation - climate or fire? South African Journal of Botany 69:79-91. pdf Pammenter, N.W., Midgley, G.F., Bond, W.J. 2003. Xylem hydraulics and angiosperm success: a test using broad-leafed species. In: A.R. Hemsley, I Poole (eds.), The Evolution of Plant Physiology, Academic Press, London . pp. 263-276. 2001 Midgley, J.M., Bond, W.J. (2001). A synthesis of the demography of African acacias. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:871-886 Bond, W.J., Loffell, D. (2001) Introduction of giraffe changes acacia distribution in a South African savanna. African Journal of Ecology 39 (3), 286-294. pdf Bond, W.J., Midgley, JM. (2001) The persistence niche: ecology of sprouting in woody plants. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:45-51 Bond, W.J., Ladd, P.G. 2001. Dynamics of the overstorey and species richness in Australian heathlands. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 2: 247-257 Bond WJ, Smythe, KA, Balfour DA (2001) Acacia species turnover in space and time in an African savanna. J. Biogeography 28: 117-128 Higgins, SI, Pickett, STA, Bond WJ (2000). Predicting extinction risks for plants: environmental stochasticity can save declining populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:516-520 2000 West AG, Bond WJ, Midgley JJ. 2000. Soil carbon isotopes reveal ancient grassland under forest in Hluhluwe, Kwa-Zulu Natal. Sth Afr Jnl Sci 96:252-254. Bond, WJ, Midgley, GF (2000) A proposed CO2-controlled mechanism of woody plant invasion in grasslands and savannas. Global Change Biology 6:865-869 Higgins, SI, Bond WJ, Trollope WSW (2000) Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for tree-grass coexistence in savanna. J. Ecol. 88, 213-229. Gambiza, J., Bond, W., Frost, P.G.H., Higgins, S. (2000) A simulation model of miombo woodland dynamics under different management regimes. 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