Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review

G Certini, D Moya, ME Lucas-Borja… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fire has always been a driving factor of life on Earth. Now that mankind has definitely joined
the other environmental forces in sha** the planet, lots of species are threatened by …

Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding

D Luo, A Maheshwari, A Danielescu, J Li, Y Yang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Aerial seeding can quickly cover large and physically inaccessible areas to improve soil
quality and scavenge residual nitrogen in agriculture, and for postfire reforestation,–and …

The Fire Inventory from NCAR version 2.5: an updated global fire emissions model for climate and chemistry applications

C Wiedinmyer, Y Kimura… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract We present the Fire Inventory from National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) version 2.5 (FINNv2. 5), a fire emissions inventory that provides publicly available …

Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events

A Duane, M Castellnou, L Brotons - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

Conservation of Earth's biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship

KM Hoffman, EL Davis, SB Wickham… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly, severe wildfires have led to declines in biodiversity across all of Earth's
vegetated biomes [DB McWethy et al., Nat. Sustain. 2, 797–804 (2019)]. Unfortunately, the …

Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions

TS Doherty, WL Geary, CJ Jolly… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Both fire and predators have strong influences on the population dynamics and behaviour of
animals, and the effects of predators may either be strengthened or weakened by fire …

What do you mean,'megafire'?

GD Linley, CJ Jolly, TS Doherty… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background 'Megafire'is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are
extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term's meaning remains …

Animal mortality during fire

CJ Jolly, CR Dickman, TS Doherty… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's rapidly warming climate is propelling us towards an increasingly fire‐prone future.
Currently, knowledge of the extent and characteristics of animal mortality rates during fire …

Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

GM Jones, MW Tingley - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a landscape.
Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post‐fire systems, suggest …