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Plant rarity in fire-prone dry sclerophyll communities [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
Understanding the responses of rare species to altered fire disturbance regimes is an ongoing challenge for ecologists. We asked: are there associations between fire regimes and plant rarity across different vegetation communities?
Meena S. Sritharan, Ben C. Scheele, Wade Blanchard, Claire N. Foster, Patricia A. Werner, David B. Lindenmayer   +5 more
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Balancing fire risk and human thermal comfort in fire-prone urban landscapes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
Vegetation in urban areas provides many essential ecosystem services. These services may be indirect, such as carbon sequestration and biological diversity, or direct, including microclimate regulation and cultural values.
Tania A MacLeod, Amy K Hahs, Trent D Penman   +2 more
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Fire-Related Cues Significantly Promote Seed Germination of Some Salt-Tolerant Species from Non-Fire-Prone Saline-Alkaline Grasslands in Northeast China [PDF]

Plants, 2021
Seed germination in response to fire-related cues has been widely studied in species from fire-prone ecosystems. However, the germination characteristics of species from non-fire-prone ecosystems, such as the saline-alkaline grassland, where fire ...
Shaoyang Li, Hongyuan Ma, Mark K. J. Ooi
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Root traits in response to frequent fires: Implications for belowground carbon dynamics in fire-prone savannas [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Predicting how belowground carbon storage reflects changes in aboveground vegetation biomass is an unresolved challenge in most ecosystems. This is especially true for fire-prone savannas, where frequent fires shape the fraction of carbon allocated to ...
Yong Zhou, Yong Zhou
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Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Fire regimes are changing across the globe, with new wildfire behaviour phenomena and increasing impacts felt, especially in ecosystems without clear adaptations to wildfire. These trends pose significant challenges to the scientific community in understanding and communicating these changes and their implications, particularly where we lack underlying
Little K, Vitali R, Belcher CM, Kettridge N, Pellegrini AFA, Ford AES, Smith AMS, Elliott A, Voulgarakis A, Stoof CR, Kolden CA, Schwilk DW, Kennedy EB, Newman Thacker FE, Millin-Chalabi GR, Clay GD, Morison JI, McCarty JL, Ivison K, Tansey K, Simpson KJ, Jones MW, Mack MC, Fulé PZ, Gazzard R, Harrison SP, New S, Page SE, Hall TE, Brown T, Jolly WM, Doerr S.   +31 more
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A Comparison of the Qualitative Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Quantitative Frequency Ratio Techniques in Predicting Forest Fire-Prone Areas in Bhutan Using GIS

Forecasting, 2020
Forest fire is an environmental disaster that poses immense threat to public safety, infrastructure, and biodiversity. Therefore, it is essential to have a rapid and robust method to produce reliable forest fire maps, especially in a data-poor country or
Kinley Tshering, Phuntsho Thinley, Mahyat Shafapour Tehrany, Ugyen Thinley, Farzin Shabani   +4 more
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Vegetation responses to season of fire in an aseasonal, fire-prone fynbos shrubland. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Season of fire has marked effects on floristic composition in fire-prone Mediterranean-climate shrublands. In these winter-rainfall systems, summer-autumn fires lead to optimal recruitment of overstorey proteoid shrubs (non-sprouting, slow-maturing, serotinous Proteaceae) which are important to the conservation of floral diversity.
Kraaij T, Cowling RM, van Wilgen BW, Rikhotso DR, Difford M.   +4 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Unearthing belowground bud banks in fire‐prone ecosystems [PDF]

New Phytologist, 2018
SummaryDespite long‐time awareness of the importance of the location of buds in plant biology, research on belowground bud banks has been scant. Terms such as lignotuber, xylopodium and sobole, all referring to belowground bud‐bearing structures, are used inconsistently in the literature.
Susana Paula, Byron Lamont, Alessandra Fidelis   +2 more
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Fire Drivers Affecting Forest Fire Occurrences in the Tropical Mixed Broad-leaved Forests of Nepal

Applied Environmental Research, 2021
Forest fires triggered by various natural and anthropogenic drivers are increasing and threatening forest ecosystems across the globe. In Nepal, the high value Tropical Mixed Broad-leaved Forests are prone to fire caused by both natural and ...
Krishna Bahadur Bhujel, Rejina Maskey Byanju, Ambika P. Gautam, Ramesh Prasad Sapkota, Udhab Raj Khadka   +4 more
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Seed fatty acid composition and physical dormancy in fire-prone ecosystems [PDF]

Annals of Botany
Mark Ooi, Ryan Tangney, Sarah Mcinnes
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