Fire as a fundamental ecological process
| Autor: | Brendan M. Rogers, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Michael M. Loranty, Melissa L. Chipman, Erica Bigio, Jennifer B. Landesmann, Robert M. Scheller, Patrick J. Baker, Adam C. Watts, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Paulo M. Brando, Linda O. Mearns, Fernanda Santos, Jonathan Myers, Jennifer Roozeboom, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Melinda D. Smith, Juli G. Pausas, Alan J. Tepley, J. Morgan Varner, Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Jeff A. Hatten, Raelene M. Crandall, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Philip E. Higuera, Neal J. Enright, Sharon M. Hermann, Lori D. Daniels, Max A. Moritz, Jennifer K. Balch, Jessica R. Miesel, Kevin G. Smith, Wendy S. Gross, Brian J. Harvey, Janice L. Coen, Kendra K. McLauchlan, Leda N. Kobziar, Hugh D. Safford, Thomas T. Veblen, Megan E. Cattau, Enric Batllori, William J. Platt |
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| Přispěvatelé: | National Science Foundation (US), Pausas, J. G. [0000-0003-3533-5786], Pausas, J. G. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Ecology (disciplines) Climate Population Plant Science Fuels Wildfire 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Prescribed fire Ecosystem Fire ecology Temporal scales education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Plant traits education.field_of_study Vegetation Ecology Fire regime business.industry Global warming Environmental resource management Earth System models Geography business 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| ISSN: | 0022-0477 |
| Popis: | © 2020 The Authors. Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both increasingly destructive wildfires and fire exclusion in fire‐dependent ecosystems. As an ecological process, fire integrates complex feedbacks among biological, social and geophysical processes, requiring coordination across several fields and scales of study. Here, we describe the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth. We explore research priorities in six categories of fire ecology: (a) characteristics of fire regimes, (b) changing fire regimes, (c) fire effects on above‐ground ecology, (d) fire effects on below‐ground ecology, (e) fire behaviour and (f) fire ecology modelling. We identify three emergent themes: the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts. Synthesis: As fire regimes and our relationships with fire continue to change, prioritizing these research areas will facilitate understanding of the ecological causes and consequences of future fires and rethinking fire management alternatives. Support was provided by NSF‐DEB‐1743681 to K.K.M. and A.J.T. We thank Shalin Hai‐Jew for helpful discussion of the survey and qualitative methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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