A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators

LM Carbone, J Tavella, JG Pausas… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding fire effects on pollinators is critical in the context of fire regime changes
and the global pollination crisis. Through a systematic and quantitative review of the …

A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire

MA Giorgis, SR Zeballos, L Carbone, H Zimmermann… - Fire Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Background Fire is an important driver of ecosystem dynamics worldwide. However,
knowledge on broad-scale patterns of ecosystem and organism responses to fires is still …

The diversity of post‐fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer

NAL Pilon, MGB Cava, WA Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling species strategies that confer resilience to natural disturbances is key to
conserving and restoring savanna ecosystems. Fire is a recurrent disturbance in savannas …

Zero-fire: Not possible nor desirable in the Cerrado of Brazil

G Durigan - Flora, 2020 - Elsevier
Fire has been a natural force modulating the vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado since long
before the first humans arrived in this region about 12 thousand years BP. Cerrado plants …

No net loss of species diversity after prescribed fires in the Brazilian savanna

G Durigan, NAL Pilon, RCR Abreu… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although savannas are fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribing fire for biodiversity
conservation remains controversial at least in some regions where savannas occur. Faced …

Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna

H L. Zirondi, MKJ Ooi, A Fidelis - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Questions In fire‐prone ecosystems, fire can enhance the flowering and fruiting of many
species, a strategy assumed to be well represented in savanna. Despite this, there are …

And after fire, the Cerrado flowers: a review of post-fire flowering in a tropical savanna

A Fidelis, HL Zirondi - Flora, 2021 - Elsevier
Post-fire flowering is a fire-adaptive trait that is underused in fire ecology literature to
describe plant responses to fire. Most of the species described so far as having this strategy …

Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities

CA Rodrigues, A Fidelis - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Tropical savanna evolved in the presence of fire, depending on it to maintain its
physiognomies and biodiversity. Open ecosystems of tropical savanna burn frequently, and …

Flowering and fruiting show phenological complementarity in both trees and non-trees in mosaic-burnt floodable savanna

BH dos Santos Ferreira, M da Rosa Oliveira… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The homogenization of fire regimes in a landscape may imply a temporal reduction in the
availability of resources, such as flowers and fruits, which affect the fauna, as well as …

Elevation modulates the impacts of climate change on the Brazilian Cerrado flora

MC Silva, L Rowland, RS Oliveira… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is causing species distribution to shift across the globe. Lowland taxa
are moving upslope with warming, while montane species face extinction. We tested the …