What Controls the Extent of Tropical Forest? An 8-year Experiment to Understand the Response of Savanna-Forest Boundaries to Climate, Soils, and Fire in Central Brazil

William Hoffmann1, Augusto C Franco2, M. Haridasan3, Erika Geiger1 and Sybil G. Gotsch4, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)University of Brasilia, Department of Botany, DF - Brasília, Brazil, (3)Universidade de Brasilia, Ecology, Brasilia, Brazil, (4)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, PA, United States