Ruminants including domestic livestock, have been accused of causing damaging impacts
on the global environment and human well-being. However, with appropriate management …

As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation,
climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we …

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

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 …

Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire‐making species, but 'natural'(ie
independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires …

Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the
appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes …

Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the
terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially …

Recent bursts in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the
influence climate change and humans might have on future fire activity. Comparatively little …

It is difficult to find references to fire in general textbooks on ecology, conservation biology or
biogeography, in spite of the fact that large parts of the world burn on a regular basis, and …