Fire in the Earth System

By D. M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, P. Artaxo, William J. Bond, Jean M. Carlson, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M D'Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, John C. Doyle, Sandy P. Harrison and 12 more. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species (2015, background): “By increasing fire occurrence, more car- bon and nutrients will be lost to the atmosphere (Bowman et al. 2009).”
Fire severity and landscape context effects on arboreal marsupials (2013, positive): “Fire is a major form of natural 502 disturbance in forests (Bowman et al. 2009) and its impacts on biodiversity must be better 503 understood, particularly as increasingly extreme fire weather is expected to develop in 504 some forested areas in the coming decades with climate change (Clarke et al.…”
Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world. (2010, background): “Risk of large fires is also increasing in other areas of the world (Bowman et al. 2009, Girardin et al. 2009), including even tundra on the North Slope of Alaska (Qui 2009).”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “Next-generation models could benefit from the incorporation of functional traits and syndromes that are simple and general enough to be assessed at the regional and global scales, and yet informative enough to relate to biogeochemical dynamics, dispersal and large-scale disturbance (Ollinger et al. ”
Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2023, background): “Consequently, climate lays the foundation for fire regimes through fuel availability, flammability, and ignition likelihood (Bowman et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2021; Scholten et al., 2021).”
Natural aerosol direct and indirect radiative effects (2013, background): “The importance of humans in altering global ﬁ re patterns and the amount of ﬁ re in prehuman times is poorly understood [ Bowman et al ., 2009].”
Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018, background): “Therefore key plant innovations that have resulted in altered fire regimes (see box 4) are often associated with novel photosynthetic pathways/leaf anatomy (Bond and Scott 2010, Bowman et al 2009) that will affect both photosynthetic rates and decomposition rates.”
The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing (2012, background): “Fires are an important driver of ecosystem change, global carbon cycling, and climate forcing, but are not evenly distributed across the globe (Bowman et al 2009).”