Leaf litter flammability in some semi-arid Australian woodlands

By Fiona R. Scarff, M. Westoby. 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver (2017, background): “Congeneric comparisons of litter flammability among pines and oaks (Fonda 2001; Kane, Varner & Hiers 2008) and comparisons among coexisting species (Scarff & Westoby 2006; Magalh~aes & Schwilk 2012) support the existence of species with different litter flammabilities, and those with a faster…”
Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity? (2008, background): “There is the potential for patches dominated by Callitris to resist penetration by fire, even under severe conditions owing to low flammability of litter (Clayton-Greene and Ashton 1990; Bradstock and Cohn 2002; Scarff and Westoby 2006).”
Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018, background): “Correspondingly, litter bed flammability is controlled by the packing ratio: the arrangement of individual leaves based on their morphology (de Magalhaes and Schwilk 2012, Engber and Varner III 2012, Kane et al 2008, Scarff and Westoby 2006).”
Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species (2015, background): “In litterbeds, leaf size is a dominant driver of different flammability parameters by influencing the packing (Scarff & Westoby 2006; van Altena et al. 2012; Engber & Varner 2012; de Magalh~aes & Schwilk 2012), while leaf traits such as thickness, moisture content, phosphorus content and secondary…”
Patterns of flammability of the California oaks: the role of leaf traits (2012, background): “Species with low-flammability litter may in fact have flammable stem and crown structures that facilitate canopy fire spread (Schwilk 2003; Scarff and Westoby 2006), concurrent with these species’ fire regimes.”
Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest (2011, methodology): “No claim to original US government works, Journal of Ecology, 99, 970–980 community mean leaf length and the causal influence of leaf length is consistent with experimental studies (Scarff & Westoby 2006).”