Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

DM Bergstrom, BC Wienecke… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure,
composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well‐being. We examine …

Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

RMB Harris, LJ Beaumont, TR Vance, CR Tozer… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
The interaction of gradual climate trends and extreme weather events since the turn of the
century has triggered complex and, in some cases, catastrophic ecological responses …

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

NJ Enright, JB Fontaine, DMJS Bowman… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Projected effects of climate change across many ecosystems globally include more frequent
disturbance by fire and reduced plant growth due to warmer (and especially drier) …

Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

SM Hood, JM Varner, P Van Mantgem… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Each year wildland fires kill and injure trees on millions of forested hectares globally,
affecting plant and animal biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and …

Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia

L Collins, H Clarke, MF Clarke… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The aims were:(1) to identify the environmental drivers of interannual variation
in wildfire extent and severity;(2) to examine temporal trends in climatic potential for large …

Managing consequences of climate‐driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science

TC Bonebrake, CJ Brown, JD Bell… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species
redistribution poses new questions for the study of ecosystems, conservation science and …

Long-term impacts of wildfire and logging on forest soils

EJ Bowd, SC Banks, CL Strong, DB Lindenmayer - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Soils are a fundamental component of terrestrial ecosystems, and play key roles in
biogeochemical cycles and the ecology of microbial, plant and animal communities. Global …