Wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) is a perennial plant originally found primarily throughout the
United States and Canada in oak savannas, which are considered an ecotone between …

Background Without periodic fire, fire-adapted plant communities across the Central
Hardwood Forest Region (CHF) in the USA have undergone significant changes in forest …

Following decades of fire exclusion, managers are increasingly implementing prescribed fire
in southern Appalachian forests. To date, the use of prescribed fire in the region has often …

Cleaning symbiosis is critical for maintaining healthy biological communities in tropical
marine ecosystems. However, potential negative impacts of mutualism, such as the …

Background Fire seasonality is important for forest managers to consider when restoring
historical disturbance regimes and recovering native ecosystem structure and composition …

The groundlayer flora has a disproportionate influence on ecosystem function and
contributes to the biodiversity in temperate Quercus forests of eastern North America …

Modern fire exclusion in upland oak-and oak-pine-dominated forests has resulted in
reduced flammability of surface fuels as a result of the replacement of flammable fuels of …

Longleaf pine (LLP) ecosystems have experienced a widespread ecological state shift
largely due to fire exclusion which has allowed mesophytes, ie, shade-tolerant, often fire …

Wildfires are becoming more frequent due to increased fuel load, human activities and
climate change and are some of the major hazards in the southern Africa region. The delay …

Increasingly, forest managers are interested in enhancing ecosystem adaptation potential to
combat stresses and disturbances hypothesized to increase in the future in accord with …