Fire as a global 'herbivore': the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems.

By W. Bond, J. E. Keeley. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2005

2,346 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. Juli G. Pausas
2. D. Richardson
3. Petr Pyšek
4. W. Bond
5. J. E. Keeley
6. C. Violle
7. D. Schwilk
8. Ross A. Bradstock

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Juli G. Pausas
2. W. Bond
3. Petr Pyšek
4. J. E. Keeley
5. D. Richardson
6. B. Lamont
7. Tianhua He
8. D. Schwilk

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. D. Richardson
2. Petr Pyšek
3. Juli G. Pausas
4. W. Bond
5. Peter B. Reich
6. J. E. Keeley
7. C. Violle
8. Brian J. Enquist

Citations in the corpus

• High solar radiation hinders tree regeneration above the alpine treeline in northern Ecuador (2007, neutral): “In this way frequent fires prevent the trees’ emergence from the fire trap, the flame zone of pa´ramo fires (Bond and Keeley 2005).”
• Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the Face of Rapid Environmental Change (2008, background): “Fire intensity and spread depend partially on the types and configuration of fuel available, and this in turn is determined by the spatial distribution, age and health of component plant species (74-76).”
• Integrating demography and fire management: an example from Florida scrub (2007, background): “With so many of the world’s habitats having fire as a dominant ecological disturbance (Pyne 1997; Bond and Keeley 2005), management of these habitats is crucial to maintaining biodiversity.”
• Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation (2012, background): “(Bond and Keeley 2005) Concerning Bond and Keeley’s point, postfire sprouting in plants has been described as a fire adaptation, but this trait could have evolved in response to browsing by large herbivores.”
• Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems (2018, background): “This perception fails to consider the vital role of natural disturbances such as fire or 65 herbivores (Bond and Keeley, 2005).”
• Human influence on California fire regimes. (2007, background): “Fire is a natural process in many biomes and has played an important role shaping the ecology and evolution of species (Pyne et al. 1996, Bond and Keeley 2005).”
• Linking plant phenology to conservation biology (2016, background): “Fire is a natural element of many tropical ecosystems around the world, and often determines vegetation physiognomy and species diversity (Bond and Keeley, 2005; Carvalho and Batalha, 2013).”
• SAVANNA RESPONSES TO FERAL BUFFALO IN KAKADU NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA (2007, background): “Historically, most studies of mesic savannas have focused on grazing effects alone (with a vast literature on African savannas, Bond and Keeley 2005).”
• The origin of the savanna biome (2006, background): “…is extended to show why CO2 starvation of the terrestrial biosphere is an essential primer of the Earth system for the origination of C4 savanna ecosystems, and how the coevolution of herbivores (Janis et al., 2000; MacFadden, 2000; Bond & Keeley, 2005) acts to disrupt or enhance the network.”
• Bud banks and their role in vegetative regeneration – A literature review and proposal for simple classification and assessment (2007, background): “Although several reviews on plant responses to various types of disturbances have been recently published (Bellingham and Sparrow, 2000; Pausas and Lavorel, 2003; Vesk and Westoby, 2004a; Bond and Keeley, 2005), the tools available for the evaluation of plant resprouting potential are still inadequa”
• Alien plant invasions in tropical and sub-tropical savannas: patterns, processes and prospects (2010, background): “Fire has further been suggested as an important evolutionary force shaping biomes (Bond and Keeley 2005) and a key factor in splitting species into fire tolerant and intolerant areas, and thereby maintaining C4 grasslands and savannas in their state (Bond et al.”
• Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change (2010, background): “The inverse relationship between grazing by large herbivores and frequency of fires across the world’s savannas has led some workers to regard fire as an ‘alternative grazer’ (Bond and Keeley 2005).”