William Bond

Employment

• University of Cape Town Emeritus Professor
  1988 - Present

Education

• University of Exeter BSc Honours
  1967 - 1970
• University of Cape Town MSc
  ? - 1987
• UCLA Life Sciences PhD
  ? - 1987

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (225)

• Questioning the Alienation of Native Species from Invasion Ecology: A Reply to Tong et al.
  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.02.001
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• Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”
  Daniel M. Griffith, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Caroline A. E. Strömberg +18 more
  Science 2017 DOI: 10.1126/science.aao1309
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• Environmental correlates of biome-level floristic turnover in South Africa
  Journal of Biogeography 2017 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12971
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• Fire frequency filters species by bark traits in a savanna–forest mosaic
  Journal of Vegetation Science 2017 DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12528
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• Seed dispersal kernel of the largest surviving megaherbivore—the African savanna elephant
  Biotropica 2017 DOI: 10.1111/btp.12423
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• The Nebulous Ecology of Native Invasions
  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.003
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• The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa
  Scientific Reports 2017 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17348-4
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• Woodland expansion in South African grassy biomes based on satellite observations (1990–2013): general patterns and potential drivers
  Global Change Biology 2017 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13529
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• Ancient grasslands at risk
  Science 2016 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad5132
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• Experimental evidence for heat plume-induced cavitation and xylem deformation as a mechanism of rapid post-fire tree mortality
  New Phytologist 2016 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13979
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• Foreword
  Ecology and Conservation of Mountaintop Grasslands in Brazil 2016 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29808-5
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• Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies
  Journal of Ecology 2016 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12598
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• Living on a flammable planet: Interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0469
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• Multiple routes underground? Frost alone cannot explain the evolution of underground trees
  New Phytologist 2016 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13795
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• Reforestation or conservation? The attributes of old growth grasslands in South Africa
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0310
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• Response
  Science 2016 DOI: 10.1126/science.351.6277.1036-b
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• Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts
  Journal of Biogeography 2016 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12701
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• Spiny plants, mammal browsers, and the origin of African savannas
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607493113
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• The deforestation story: Testing for anthropogenic origins of Africa’s flammable grassy biomes
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0170
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• Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannahs: Overgrazing, global change or extinction aftershock?
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0437
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