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 …

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 …

Shifting fire regimes cause continent-wide transformation of threatened species habitat

TS Doherty, KJ Macdonald, DG Nimmo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Human actions are causing widespread increases in fire size, frequency, and severity in
diverse ecosystems globally. This alteration of fire regimes is considered a threat to …

Rising wildfire risk to houses in the United States, especially in grasslands and shrublands

VC Radeloff, MH Mockrin, D Helmers, A Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Wildfire risks to homes are increasing, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI),
where wildland vegetation and houses are in close proximity. Notably, we found that more …

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 …

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 …

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 …

IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: Chapter 1. Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control

HE Roy, A Pauchard, P Stoett, TR Truong, T Lipinskaya… - 2023 - digitalcommons.uri.edu
Chapter 1: Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive
alien species and their control of the Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien …