A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

By Juli G. Pausas, J. E. Keeley. 2009

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa (2011, background): “If many seed plants evolved in the presence of fire, as has been proposed (Pausas and Keeley 2009; Bond and Scott 2010; He et al. 2011), its presence among ancient extant seed plants suggests it is possible that fsf is an old trait whose origin might eventually be traced back to the Mesozoic Era…”
The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America (2016, background): “…may exert pervasive and enduring indirect effects on fire regimes by altering, or removing, the natural vegetation (e.g., change in forest structure, invasive annuals, logging, conversion to irrigated agriculture) (Cochrane 2003, Pausas and Keeley 2009, Perry et al 2012, Fréjaville andCurt 2015).”
Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals (2018, background): “It is now well known that fire is an intrinsic and natural process in many ecosystems (Pausas and Keeley 2009).”
Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta‐analysis (2018, background): “Shrub encroachment affects cover and other resources known to be critical to many vertebrates, which may lead to important and consistent effects of encroachment on communities across grassdominated biomes (Parr et al., 2014; Pausas & Keeley, 2009; Ricklefs, 2004).”
Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver (2017, background): “We live on a flammable planet where most terrestrial plants can burn under the right climatic conditions and many regions burn recurrently (Pausas & Keeley 2009; Krawchuk & Moritz 2011; Pausas & Ribeiro 2013).”
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011, background): “Fire regimes can be thought of as a spatially variable template of fire intensity, severity, type, frequency, spatial scale and seasonality, within which biotas have co-evolved (Gill, 1975; Pausas & Keeley, 2009).”
A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators (2019, background): “Fire is an ecological and evolutionary factor that modulates the dy‐ namics, diversity and structure of many terrestrial ecosystems across the Earth (Pausas & Keeley, 2009).”
Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora (2018, background): “It is likely that this interaction and changes in the fire-proneness of vegetation as a result of evolutionary changes in the terrestrial flora have influencedfire activity on theEarth over the past 420 million years [15,18,19].”
Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society (2020, background): “…geologic history, fire has played a major role in regulating atmospheric O2 (Lenton 2001, 2013, Belcher et al 2010), driving plant evolution (Pausas and Keeley 2009, Keeley et al 2011, Archibald et al 2018), and determining the distribution of biomes and plant communities (Bond et al 2005).”
Ecology and evolution of pine life histories (2012, background): “Dry zones at this time along the European and North African Tethys (Parrish 1998) may have favored fire-prone pines.”