Fire has been an ecosystem process since plants colonized land over 400 million years ago.
Many diverse traits provide a fitness benefit following fires, and these adaptive traits vary …

▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

Although the above and belowground sizes and shapes of plants strongly influence plant
competition, community structure, and plant–environment interactions, plant sizes and …

Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in shaping …

It is difficult to find references to fire in general textbooks on ecology, conservation biology or
biogeography, in spite of the fact that large parts of the world burn on a regular basis, and …

This paper is the first global study of the extent to which fire determines global vegetation
patterns by preventing ecosystems from achieving the potential height, biomass and …

The mutually beneficial interactions between plants and their animal pollinators and seed
dispersers have been paramount in the generation of Earth's biodiversity. These mutualistic …

For chemistry, biology and bioengineering students, required courses in general chemistry
often fail to excite their interest in the many connections between chemistry and biology. This …

T he five mediterranean-climate regions of the world (Fig. 1, Box 1) occupy less than 5% of
the Earth's surface yet harbour about 48250 known vascular plant species (Table l), almost …

Traits that enable plants to exploit low-resource environments (eg, slow tissue turnover, low
transpiration rate, high root: shoot ratio, and high concentrations of plant defenses against …