Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

KK McLauchlan, PE Higuera, J Miesel… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

T He, BB Lamont, JG Pausas - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

YJ Shin, GF Midgley, ERM Archer, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

A human-driven decline in global burned area

N Andela, DC Morton, L Giglio, Y Chen… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Fire is an essential Earth system process that alters ecosystem and atmospheric
composition. Here we assessed long-term fire trends using multiple satellite data sets. We …

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

EA Pearce, F Mazier, S Normand, R Fyfe, V Andrieu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

Wildfires as an ecosystem service

JG Pausas, JE Keeley - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when
integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be …

[HTML][HTML] The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

N Andela, DC Morton, L Giglio… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Natural and human-ignited fires affect all major biomes, altering ecosystem structure,
biogeochemical cycles and atmospheric composition. Satellite observations provide global …