Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

MS Fletcher, R Hamilton, W Dressler… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

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 …

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia's tropical savannahs

MI Bird, M Brand, R Comley, X Fu, X Hadeen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous
societies practiced land management across Australia's extensive tropical savannahs. Fire …

Distance sampling surveys reveal 17 million vertebrates directly killed by the 2020's wildfires in the Pantanal, Brazil

WM Tomas, CN Berlinck, RM Chiaravalloti… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic factors have significantly influenced the frequency, duration, and intensity of
meteorological drought in many regions of the globe, and the increased frequency of …

Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas

R Schuster, RR Germain, JR Bennett, NJ Reo… - … Science & Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a 'Sixth
Mass Extinction'and many countries fall short of meeting even nominal targets for land …

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 …

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

KM Hoffman, EL Davis, SB Wickham, K Schang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
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 …

Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters

N Creanza, O Kolodny, MW Feldman - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - pnas.org
Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …