Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest ecology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

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 …

Grassy ecosystems in the Anthropocene

N Stevens, W Bond, A Feurdean… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

RA Fisher, CD Koven, WRL Anderegg… - Global change …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and
vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models (ESM s). These …

Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

E Buisson, S Le Stradic, FAO Silveira… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite growing recognition of the conservation values of grassy biomes, our understanding
of how to maintain and restore biodiverse tropical grasslands (including savannas and open …

Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation

GE Overbeck, E Vélez-Martin… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In Brazil, the country with the highest plant species richness in the world, biodiverse
savannas and grasslands–ie, grassy ecosystems, which occupy 27% of the country–have …

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

RCR Abreu, WA Hoffmann, HL Vasconcelos… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Tropical savannas have been increasingly viewed as an opportunity for carbon
sequestration through fire suppression and afforestation, but insufficient attention has been …

[کتاب][B] Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

RL Chazdon - 2019‏ - degruyter.com
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

NJ Enright, JB Fontaine, DMJS Bowman… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Projected effects of climate change across many ecosystems globally include more frequent
disturbance by fire and reduced plant growth due to warmer (and especially drier) …

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions

PM Brando, JK Balch, DC Nepstad, DC Morton… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - pnas.org
Interactions between climate and land-use change may drive widespread degradation of
Amazonian forests. High-intensity fires associated with extreme weather events could …