Former PhD students

• Ivan Hernandez. 2021. Resilience of Dry Tropical Rangelands to Climate Variability
• Rafael E. Bernardi. 2017. Forest-grassland transitions: How livestock and fire shape grassy biomes (Now: Lecturer, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay).
• Bernardo M. Flores. 2016. Resilience of Amazonian Forests: the roles of fire, flooding and climate (Now: Postdoc FAPESP, Brazil)

• Dorit Gross. Assessing human pressures on African protected areas
• Mhosisi Masocha. 2010. Savanna aliens (Now Assistant Professor, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe).
• Honore S.S. Biaou. 2009. Tree recruitment in West African dry woodlands: the interactive effects of climate, soil, fire and grazing (Now: Assistant Professor, University of Parakou, Benin).
• Acácio V. 2009. The dynamics of cork oak systems in Portugal: the role of ecological and land use factors (Now: Researcher, University of Lisbon, Portugal).