Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

T He, BB Lamont, JG Pausas - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review

G Certini, D Moya, ME Lucas-Borja… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fire has always been a driving factor of life on Earth. Now that mankind has definitely joined
the other environmental forces in shaping the planet, lots of species are threatened by …

Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

D Thom, R Seidl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals

JG Pausas, CL Parr - Evolutionary Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Wildfires underpin the dynamics and diversity of many ecosystems worldwide, and plants
show a plethora of adaptive traits for persisting recurrent fires. Many fire-prone ecosystems …

The 2023 wildfire season in Québec: an overview of extreme conditions, impacts, lessons learned, and considerations for the future

Y Boulanger, D Arseneault, AC Bélisle… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
The 2023 wildfire season in Québec set records due to extreme warm and dry conditions,
burning 4.5 million hectares and indicating persistent and escalating impacts associated …

[图书][B] Insects, fire and conservation

TR New - 2014 - Springer
The profound impacts of fire on natural ecosystems have moulded many aspects of life on
Earth, but many of these effects remain poorly understood, other than in the most general …

Connectivity and succession of open structures as a key to sustaining light‐demanding biodiversity in deciduous forests

P Kozel, P Sebek, M Platek, J Benes… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
European forests are facing a rapid decline in light‐demanding biota. This has prompted
active interventions to re‐establish and maintain partial habitat openness in protected areas …

Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires

RL Hutto, RE Keane, RL Sherriff, CT Rota, LA Eby… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We use the historical presence of high‐severity fire patches in mixed‐conifer forests of the
western United States to make several points that we hope will encourage development of a …

Retention forestry and prescribed burning result in functionally different saproxylic beetle assemblages than clear-cutting

O Heikkala, S Seibold, M Koivula, P Martikainen… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In fire-susceptible boreal forests, clear-cutting has been justified as being a harvesting
regime that mimics natural stand-replacing dynamics, despite obvious differences in its …

Forest restoration by burning and gap cutting of voluntary set-asides yield distinct immediate effects on saproxylic beetles

J Hjältén, R Hägglund, T Löfroth, JM Roberge… - Biodiversity and …, 2017 - Springer
Today, the importance of restoring natural forest disturbance regimes and habitat structures
for biodiversity is widely recognized. We evaluated the immediate effects of two restoration …