Recurrent fires do not affect the abundance of soil fungi in a frequently burned pine savanna

PM Hansen, TA Semenova-Nelsen, WJ Platt, BA Sikes - Fungal ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
While the negative effects of infrequent, high-intensity fire on soil fungal abundance are well-
understood, it remains unclear how the short-term history of frequent, low-intensity fire in fire …

Frequent fire reorganizes fungal communities and slows decomposition across a heterogeneous pine savanna landscape

TA Semenova‐Nelsen, WJ Platt, TR Patterson… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrogenic savannas with a tree–grassland 'matrix'experience frequent fires (ie every 1–3 yr).
Aboveground responses to frequent fires have been well studied, but responses of fungal …

Influences of fire on forest soil fungal communities

JWG Cairney, BA Bastias - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Wildfires and prescribed burns constitute widespread and potentially destructive
disturbances in forest ecosystems. Fire-related effects on aboveground ecosystem …

Successional changes in fungal communities occur a few weeks following wildfire in a mixed douglas-fir-ponderosa pine forest

EE Packard, DM Durall, MD Jones - Fungal Ecology, 2023 - Elsevier
With wildfires reaching unprecedented levels of severity, size and frequency, their impact on
soil microbial communities is an important concern. Commencing just weeks following a …

Contrasting fungal responses to wildfire across different ecosystem types

GR Smith, LC Edy, KG Peay - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire affects our planet's biogeochemistry both by burning biomass and by driving
changes in ecological communities and landcover. Some plants and ecosystem types are …

Soil fungal communities respond compositionally to recurring frequent prescribed burning in a managed southeastern US forest ecosystem

AK Oliver, MA Callaham Jr, A Jumpponen - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Prescribed fire is an important management tool to reduce fuel loads, to remove non-fire
adapted species and to sustain fire-adapted taxa in many forested ecosystems of the …

Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems

JR Hopkins, T Semenova-Nelsen… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Fire alters microbial community composition, and is expected to increase in frequency due to
climate change. Testing whether microbes in different ecosystems will respond similarly to …

Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada

NJ Day, KE Dunfield, JF Johnstone… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire is the dominant disturbance in boreal forests and fire activity is increasing in these
regions. Soil fungal communities are important for plant growth and nutrient cycling postfire …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of planned burning on the fungal diversity and vascular plants in a heathy woodland

MT Johnston, AD Miller, OJ Holland, Z Clark… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Planned burns are an important management tool, primarily to reduce fuel loads in
landscapes threatened by wildfire. Preventing fundamental changes in the composition and …

Fire as a driver of fungal diversity—A synthesis of current knowledge

S Fox, BA Sikes, SP Brown, CL Cripps, SI Glassman… - Mycologia, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Fires occur in most terrestrial ecosystems where they drive changes in the traits,
composition, and diversity of fungal communities. Fires range from rare, stand-replacing …