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  1. Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity

    Article • Science, October 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  2. Frequent Prescribed Burning Contributes to the Sequestration of Soil Carbon in South African Mesic Rangeland Systems

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  3. Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  4. Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  5. Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  6. Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass–precipitation relationship

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  7. Effects of warming and rainfall variation on grass phenology and regenerative responses in mesic grassland

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  8. Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  9. Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

    Article • September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  10. Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  11. Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  12. Fire suppression interacts with soil acidity to maintain stable recalcitrant pyrogenic carbon fractions in South African mesic grasslands soil

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, June 2024, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  13. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  14. Post-Fire Soil Nutrient Dynamics in Seriphium plumosum L. Encroached Semi-Arid Grassland of Gauteng Province, South Africa

    Article • Agriculture, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  15. Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder, Maria Caldeira

  16. Dominant species of mid-elevation grasslands of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park are predicted to be largely immune to climate change

    Article • Journal of Mountain Science, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder, Dr Debbie Jewitt

  17. Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

    Article • Ecosphere, June 2023, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  18. Evaluating the Potential Use of Seriphium plumosum L. as Forage in the Semiarid Grassland of Gauteng Province, South Africa

    Article • Rangeland Ecology & Management, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  19. Soil Acidification in Nutrient-Enriched Soils Reduces the Growth, Nutrient Concentrations, and Nitrogen-Use Efficiencies of Vachellia sieberiana (DC.) Kyal. & Boatwr Saplings

    Article • Plants, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  20. Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  21. Do native grasses emerge and establish in areas rehabilitated using vetiver grass?

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, September 2022, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  22. Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents

    Article • Plant and Soil, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder, Maria Caldeira

  23. Assessing long-term nutrient and lime enrichment effects on a subtropical South African grassland

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, February 2022, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  24. Fieldwork Ready: An Introductory Guide to Field Research for Agriculture, Environment and Soil Scientists

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, February 2022, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  25. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder, Maria Caldeira

  26. Grass functional trait responses to experimental warming and fire in Afromontane grasslands

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, February 2021, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  27. Frost tolerance in Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii in the high-altitude grasslands of southern Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  28. Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii, a high-altitude encroacher: the effect of fire, frost, simulated grazing and altitude in north-western KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, December 2019, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  29. Role of native avian frugivores in germination facilitation and potential dispersal of invasive American bramble (Rubus cuneifolius) in South Africa

    Article • Biological Invasions, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  30. Simulated herbivory counteracts the effects of grass competition on the invasive fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis)

    Article • Austral Ecology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  31. Seed mix type but not planting method or seed priming affect grassland restoration outcomes: a greenhouse trial

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  32. Offspring diet supersedes the transgenerational effects of parental diet in a specialist herbivore Neolema abbreviata under manipulated foliar nitrogen variability

    Article • Insect Science, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  33. What evidence is available on the drivers of grassland ecosystem stability across a range of outcome measurements: a systematic map protocol

    Article • Environmental Evidence, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  34. The effects of abiotic factors in South African semi-arid grassland communities on Seriphium plumosum L density and canopy size

    Article • PLOS One, August 2018, PLOS

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  35. Differential life-history responses in Neolema abbreviata, a biological control agent for Tradescantia fluminensis under water and nitrogen gradients

    Article • Arthropod-Plant Interactions, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  36. Variation in Grassland Fuel Curing in South Africa

    Article • Fire Ecology, December 2016, Association for Fire Ecology

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  37. Determinants of the occurrence of a native encroacher species,Pechuelloeschea leubnitziae(wild sage), in the eastern Okavango Delta, Botswana

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  38. Tree-grass competition along a catenal gradient in a mesic grassland, South Africa

    Article • Grassland Science, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  39. Classification and mapping of the composition and structure of dry woodland and savanna in the eastern Okavango Delta

    Article • Koedoe, February 2013, AOSIS Open Journals

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  40. Do soil nutrients mediate competition between grasses andAcaciasaplings?

    Article • Grassland Science, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  41. The influence ofPechuel-Loeschea leubnitziae(wild sage) on grass sward and soil seed bank composition

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michelle Tedder

  42. Grass-on-grass competition along a catenal gradient in mesic grassland, South Africa

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michelle Tedder