Characterization of landscape pyrodiversity in Mediterranean environments: contrasts and similarities between south-western Australia and south-eastern France

N Faivre, P Roche, MM Boer, L McCaw, PF Grierson - Landscape Ecology, 2011 - Springer
Landscape pyrodiversity encapsulates the range of spatiotemporal variability in disturbance
by fire. There is a widely-held view that diversity in fire regimes promotes biological diversity …

Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers

ZL Steel, BM Collins, DB Sapsis… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pyrodiversity or variation in spatio-temporal fire patterns is increasingly recognized as an
important determinant of ecological pattern and process, yet no consensus surrounds how …

[HTML][HTML] Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity

L Greenwood, RB Bird, C McGuire, N Jadai… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pyrodiversity (temporally and spatially diverse fire histories) is thought to promote
biodiversity by increasing environmental heterogeneity and replicating Indigenous fire …

Fire regimes of a ustralia: A pyrogeographic model system

BP Murphy, RA Bradstock, MM Boer… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Comparative analyses of fire regimes at large geographical scales can potentially
identify ecological and climatic controls of fire. Here we describe A ustralia's broad fire …

Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity

GP Hempson, CL Parr, S Archibald, TM Anderson… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrodiversity, which describes fire variability over space and time, is believed to increase
habitat heterogeneity and thereby promote biodiversity. However, to date there is no …

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

T He, BB Lamont, JG Pausas - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

[PDF][PDF] Pyrogeography: Understanding the ecological niche of fire

MA Moritz, MA Krawchuk, MA Parisien - PAGES news, 2010 - pastglobalchanges.org
Given the impact of fire on ecosystem processes, human well-being and global carbon
cycling, there is growing interest in studying fire-environment interactions across various …

Pyrodiversity in a warming world: Research challenges and opportunities

GM Jones, J Ayars, SA Parks, HE Chmura… - Current Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Climate change will continue to alter spatial and temporal
variation in fire characteristics, or pyrodiversity. The causes of pyrodiversity and its …

Pyrogeography in flux: Reorganization of Australian fire regimes in a hotter world

CX Cunningham, GJ Williamson, RH Nolan… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes to the spatiotemporal patterns of wildfire are having profound implications
for ecosystems and society globally, but we have limited understanding of the extent to …

Understanding fire regimes in Europe

LF Galizia, T Curt, R Barbero… - International journal of …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildland fire effects are strongly associated with fire regime characteristics. Here, we
developed the first European pyrogeography based on different fire regime components to …