Fire has been an ecosystem process since plants colonized land over 400 million years ago.
Many diverse traits provide a fitness benefit following fires, and these adaptive traits vary …

Purpose of review Forests are frequently exposed to natural disturbances, which are likely to
increase with global change, and may jeopardize the delivery of ecosystem services. Mixed …

Forests are critical habitats for biodiversity and they are also essential for the provision of a
wide range of ecosystem services that are important to human well-being. There is …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

There are two broad mechanisms by which plant populations persist under recurrent
disturbances: resprouting from surviving tissues, and seedling recruitment. Species can …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

Traits, such as resprouting, serotiny and germination by heat and smoke, are adaptive in fire-
prone environments. However, plants are not adapted to fire per se but to fire regimes …

There is growing recognition that classifying terrestrial plant species on the basis of their
function (into'functional types') rather than their higher taxonomic identity, is a promising way …

We live on a flammable planet yet there is little consensus on the origin and evolution of
flammability in our flora. We argue that part of the problem lies in the concept of flammability …