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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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Epicormic Resprouting in Fire-Prone Ecosystems [PDF]

Trends in Plant Science, 2017
Many plants resprout from basal buds after disturbance, and this is common in shrublands subjected to high-intensity fires. However, resprouting after fire from epicormic (stem) buds is globally far less common. Unlike basal resprouting, post-fire epicormic resprouting is a key plant adaptation for retention of the arborescent skeleton after fire ...
Pausas, J. G., Keeley, J. E.
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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
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A comparison of land cover maps to define vegetation classes of fire risk in Brazil

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Natural fires are essential in the structure and functioning of many ecosystems in the world. Some vegetation types are more vulnerable to fire, e.g.tropical forests, whereas others are fire dependent, like savannas.
Joana Nogueira, Guilherme Martins, Alberto Setzer, Fabiano Morelli   +3 more
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Rainforest bird communities threatened by extreme fire

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Fire occurs naturally in many ecosystems and is predicted to increase in frequency and severity with climate change. The 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season was extreme, unprecedented in scale and severity, burning almost 19 million ha.
Joshua S. Lee, William K. Cornwell, Richard T. Kingsford   +2 more
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Animal movements in fire‐prone landscapes

Biological Reviews, 2018
ABSTRACTMovement is a trait of fundamental importance in ecosystems subject to frequent disturbances, such as fire‐prone ecosystems. Despite this, the role of movement in facilitating responses to fire has received little attention. Herein, we consider how animal movement interacts with fire history to shape species distributions.
Dale G. Nimmo, Sarah Avitabile, Sam C. Banks, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Kate Callister, Michael F. Clarke, Chris R. Dickman, Tim S. Doherty, Don A. Driscoll, Aaron C. Greenville, Angie Haslem, Luke T. Kelly, Sally A. Kenny, José J. Lahoz‐Monfort, Connie Lee, Steven Leonard, Harry Moore, Thomas M. Newsome, Catherine L. Parr, Euan G. Ritchie, Kathryn Schneider, James M. Turner, Simon Watson, Martin Westbrooke, Mike Wouters, Matthew White, Andrew F. Bennett   +26 more
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Application of Market-Based Savanna Burning Approaches for Incentivising Sustainable Fire Management in Fire-Prone Savannas

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Savannas constitute the most fire-prone ecosystem on Earth, contribute 10% of total annual carbon emissions, and are home to 10% of the human population.
Jeremy Russell-Smith, Cameron Yates, Robin Beatty, Sam Johnston, Ariadne Gorring   +4 more
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Tanned or burned: the role of fire in shaping physical seed dormancy. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Plant species with physical seed dormancy are common in mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems. Because fire breaks seed dormancy and enhances the recruitment of many species, this trait might be considered adaptive in fire-prone environments.
Bruno Moreira, Juli G Pausas
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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.
Juli G. Pausas, Byron B. Lamont, Susana Paula, Beatriz Appezzato‐da‐Glória, Alessandra Fidelis   +4 more
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