Background Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the
importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across …

Abstract Purpose of Review Climate change will continue to alter spatial and temporal
variation in fire characteristics, or pyrodiversity. The causes of pyrodiversity and its …

Reducing the risk of large, severe wildfires while also increasing the security of mountain
water supplies and enhancing biodiversity are urgent priorities in western US forests. After a …

Pyrodiversity (temporally and spatially diverse fire histories) is thought to promote
biodiversity by increasing environmental heterogeneity and replicating Indigenous fire …

Background Understanding pre-1850s fire history and its effect on forest structure can
provide insights useful for fire managers in developing plans to moderate fire hazards in the …

Understanding the patterns and underlying drivers of forest structure is critical for managing
landscape processes and multiple resource management. Merging several landscape-scale …

Aim Biodiversity plays an important role in regulating understory biomass. Aboveground and
belowground biodiversity changes in response to fire-induced changes in environmental …

Interest in use of naturally ignited wildland fires managed to meet multiple resource
objectives (resource objective wildfire) is increasing among US public forest managers; …

This thesis comprises two parts. In part one, encapsulated in chapters two, three, and four, I
investigated the interaction between fire, people, and flora in the semi-arid spinifex …