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Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire-prone ecosystems [PDF]
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2019 Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of variability for most fire parameters and results in vegetation shifts. Such perturbations can affect all
Keeley, J. E., Pausas, J. G.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Widespread fire exclusion and land-use activities across many southeastern United States forested ecosystems have resulted in altered species composition and structure.
J. Morgan Varner +3 more
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Historical fire regimes in a poorly understood, fire-prone ecosystem: eastern coastal fynbos [PDF]
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2012 We characterised the historical fire regime (1900–2010) in eastern coastal fynbos shrublands, which occur in a poorly studied part of the Cape Floral Kingdom (CFK). Natural (lightning-ignited) fires dominated the fire regime. Fire seasonality decreased from west (Outeniqua region) to east (Tsitsikamma region) within the study area, and between the ...
Tineke Kraaij +4 more
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Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 Severe fires associated to climate change and land cover changes are becoming more frequent in Mediterranean Europe. The influence of environmental drivers on fire severity, especially under different environmental conditions is still not fully understood.
García Llamas, Paula +4 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2016 Seed germination in many species from fire-prone ecosystems may be triggered by heat shock and/or temperature fluctuation, and how species respond to such fire-related cues is important to understand post-fire regeneration strategies. Thus, we tested how
Talita Zupo +2 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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Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire‐prone ecosystems
New Phytologist, 2014 SummaryThere are two broad mechanisms by which plant populations persist under recurrent disturbances: resprouting from surviving tissues, and seedling recruitment. Species can have one of these mechanisms or both. However, a coherent framework explaining the differential evolutionary pressures driving these regeneration mechanisms is lacking.
Pausas, J. G., Keeley, J. E.
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Fire and functional traits: Using functional groups of birds and plants to guide management in a fire‐prone, heathy woodland ecosystem [PDF]
Diversity and Distributions, 2021 AbstractAimMany dry forests and woodlands worldwide are fire‐prone and support bird and plant communities shaped by fire. Changes in fire regimes, including the time between fires, have important implications for population trajectories. We studied the responses of bird and plant communities of heathy woodlands to time since the last fire, a key ...
Frederick W. Rainsford +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2018 We aimed to analyze the relationship between fire regime attributes and the post-fire greenness recovery of fire-prone pine ecosystems over the short (2-year) and medium (5-year) term after a large wildfire, using both a single and a combined fire regime
Víctor Fernández-García +5 more
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No Net Loss of Species Diversity After Prescribed Fires in the Brazilian Savanna
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020 Although savannas are fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribing fire for biodiversity conservation remains controversial at least in some regions where savannas occur.
Giselda Durigan +12 more
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