Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

Natural and human-ignited fires affect all major biomes, altering ecosystem structure,
biogeochemical cycles and atmospheric composition. Satellite observations provide global …

The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and
extent of simultaneous woody plant encroachment (WPE) into open areas are only …

Tropical savannas have been increasingly viewed as an opportunity for carbon
sequestration through fire suppression and afforestation, but insufficient attention has been …

Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

Systems linking people and nature, known as social-ecological systems, are increasingly
understood as complex adaptive systems. Essential features of these complex adaptive …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC; includes soot, char, black carbon, and biochar) is produced by the
incomplete combustion of organic matter accompanying biomass burning and fossil fuel …