Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

DMJS Bowman, GLW Perry… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …

[PDF][PDF] Heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management

SD Fuhlendorf, RWS Fynn… - Rangeland systems …, 2017 - library.oapen.org
Rangeland management, like most disciplines of natural resource management, has been
characterized by human efforts to reduce variability and increase predictability in natural …

Spatial heterogeneity increases diversity and stability in grassland bird communities

TJ Hovick, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands are inherently dynamic in space and time, evolving with frequent disturbance
from fire and herbivores. As a consequence of human actions, many remaining grasslands …

Regional mapping of vegetation structure for biodiversity monitoring using airborne lidar data

X Guo, NC Coops, P Tompalski, SE Nielsen… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Vegetation structure is identified as an important biodiversity indicator providing the physical
environment that generates, supports, and maintains forest biodiversity. Airborne lidar …

Perspectives on grassland conservation efforts: should we rewild to the past or conserve for the future?

SD Fuhlendorf, CA Davis… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Grasslands are among the most imperilled biomes of the world. Identifying the most
appropriate framework for restoring grasslands is dependent on the objectives of restoration …

Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long‐term dynamics in grassland communities

SK Jones, J Ripplinger, SL Collins - Ecology Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how ecological communities will respond to global environmental change
remains a challenging research problem. Recent meta‐analyses concluded that most …

Arthropods and fire: previous research shaping future conservation

KC Kral, RF Limb, JP Harmon, TJ Hovick - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural process in grasslands that maintains an open canopy and creates variable
vegetative structure and composition over time. Although there is a wealth of knowledge on …

Using ecoacoustics metrices to track grassland bird richness across landscape gradients

H Shamon, Z Paraskevopoulou, J Kitzes, E Card… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecoacoustics is an emerging field that allows inferences about biodiversity trends and
ecosystem health. Several acoustic indices have been developed for fast, automated …

Trophic rewilding: ecological restoration of top-down trophic interactions to promote self-regulating biodiverse ecosystems

JC Svenning, M Munk, A Schweiger - Rewilding, 2019 - books.google.com
There is rapidly increasing interest in rewilding as an alternative to conventional, more
human-controlled approaches to biological conservation and nature management (Donlan …

Patch-burn grazing (PBG) as a livestock management alternative for fire-prone ecosystems of North America

JD Scasta, ET Thacker, TJ Hovick… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Many rangelands of the world are fire dependent and display a strong interaction between
fire and grazing on animal behavior, productivity and ecosystem processes. The application …