Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance
in the Amazon basin. Recent studies have demonstrated considerable resilience of …

Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Interactions between climate and land-use change may drive widespread degradation of
Amazonian forests. High-intensity fires associated with extreme weather events could …

Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire‐making species, but 'natural'(ie
independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires …

Theoretically, fire–tree cover feedbacks can maintain savanna and forest as alternative
stable states. However, the global extent of fire-driven discontinuities in tree cover is …

The sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition to global environmental change is a
topic of prominent relevance for the global carbon cycle. Decomposition depends on …

In this study, we analyse the role of climate change in the forest fires that raged through
large parts of Sweden in the summer of 2018 from a meteorological perspective. This is …

Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused
persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather …

We synthesize existing sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct Holocene fire history at
regional, continental and global scales. The reconstructions are compared with the two …

Savannas are defined based on vegetation structure, the central concept being a
discontinuous tree cover in a continuous grass understorey. However, at the high‐rainfall …