Seed dormancy varies greatly between species, clades, communities, and regions. We
propose that fireprone ecosystems create ideal conditions for the selection of seed …

Altered fire regimes resulting from climate change and human activity threaten many
terrestrial ecosystems. However, we lack a holistic and detailed understanding of the effects …

Aim To quantify the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity by
assessing burnt area across 26,062 species ranges and the effects of fire history on …

Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in sha** …

Most ecologists are not card-carrying members of either individualistic or interdependent
guilds, but our perception of plant community organization, and the way we conduct …

Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However,
despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of …

Restoring degraded land to combat environmental degradation requires the collection of
vast quantities of germplasm (seed). Sourcing this material raises questions related to …

Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …

The study of interspecific variation in plant ecological strategies has revealed suites of traits
associated with leaf life span and with maximum levels of water deficit (measured as leaf …

The retention of seeds in the plant canopy for one to 30 years or more is termed serotiny. It is
well represented floristically and physiognomically in fire-prone, nutrient-poor and …