Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

LT Kelly, KM Giljohann, A Duane, N Aquilué… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation
in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants …

What the past can say about the present and future of fire

JR Marlon - Quaternary Research, 2020 - cambridge.org
Wildfires are an integral part of most terrestrial ecosystems. Paleofire records composed of
charcoal, soot, and other combustion products deposited in lake and marine sediments …

Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community‐type conversions

JB Landesmann, F Tiribelli, J Paritsis… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Increased wildfire activity is resulting in plant community‐type conversions
worldwide. In some regions, fire‐sensitive forests are being replaced by flammable fire …

Fire effects on diversity patterns of the understory communities of Araucaria-Nothofagus forests

P Arroyo-Vargas, A Holz, TT Veblen - Plant Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Short-interval and high-severity fires combined are emerging as a catalyst of major
reorganization of understory plant communities. In temperate forests of south-central Chile …

A review of the structure and dynamics of araucaria mixed forests in southern Brazil and northern Argentina

AF Souza - New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Araucaria Mixed Forests (AMF) are subtropical conifer-hardwood mixed
forests that are part of the Atlantic forest floristic dominion in Brazil and Argentina. The AMF …

Recruitment and growth dynamics of a temperate forest understorey species following wildfire in southeast Australia

H Vickers, S Kasel, T Duff, C Nitschke - Dendrochronologia, 2021 - Elsevier
In southeast Australia, fire regimes are changing. Conserving species into the future under
these changing fire regimes will require understanding their recruitment and growth …

Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia

MS Fletcher, A Romano, S Nichols… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Humans undertake land management and care of landscapes to maintain safe, healthy,
productive and predictable environments. Often, this is achieved through creating spatial …

Canary in the Forest?–Tree mortality and canopy dieback of western redcedar linked to drier and warmer summer conditions

RA Andrus, LR Peach, AR Cinquini, B Mills, JT Yusi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Tree mortality and partial canopy dieback are increasing in many forest ecosystems from
unfavorable climate conditions. Examining how tree growth and mortality are affected by …

The influence of climatic change, fire and species invasion on a Tasmanian temperate rainforest system over the past 18,000 years

F Michael-Shawn, BD MJS, W Cathy, M Michela… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
We aim to understand how did cool temperate rainforest respond to changes in climate and
fire activity over the past 18 kcal yrs, interrogating the role that flammable plant species …

Lack of reliable post-fire recovery mechanisms makes the iconic Tasmanian conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides susceptible to population decline

A Bliss, LD Prior, DMJS Bowman - Australian Journal of Botany, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Athrotaxis cupressoides is an iconic Tasmanian palaeoendemic conifer that is vulnerable to
fire. A survey of three populations burnt by severe fire in 2016, conducted 1year post-fire …