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Environmental Sciences
Bruno Henrique dos Santos Ferreira, Maxwell da Rosa Oliveira, Rafaela Aparecida Mariano Fernandes, Vivian Ayumi Fujizawa Nacagava, Bruno Arrua Arguelho, Danilo Bandini Ribeiro, Arnildo Pott, Geraldo Alves Damasceno Junior, Leticia Couto Garcia
Summary: The homogenization of fire regimes can lead to a temporal reduction in the availability of resources, affecting fauna and ecosystem services. Maintaining mosaic burning regimes can diversify phenological patterns, ensuring year-round availability of flowers and fruits. Different fire regimes had differential effects on tree and non-tree phenologies, and moderate fire frequency did not significantly reduce flower and fruit production. However, late burning in high-frequency patches resulted in a low availability of ripe fruits in trees, while fruiting of non-tree plants in low fire frequency patches and early burning ensured a continuous supply of ripe fruits throughout the year.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Ecology
Leanne Greenwood, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Dale Nimmo
Summary: Research shows that areas near Indigenous communities experience more frequent fires, higher fire diversity, and a greater variety of fire history combinations, reflecting the significant impact of Indigenous burning activities on landscape patterns.
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Environmental Sciences
Andrew Edwards, Ricky Archer, Phillip De Bruyn, Jay Evans, Ben Lewis, Tom Vigilante, Sandy Whyte, Jeremy Russell-Smith
Summary: Savannas are the most fire-prone of Earth's biomes and Australia has made substantial developments in savanna burning emissions accounting methods to incentivise conservative fire management. The savanna burning projects have generated significant emissions reductions and financial benefits, but biodiversity conservation considerations remain controversial. Despite achievements in reducing late season wildfires and increasing controlled burning, savanna burning projects do not solve all regional conservation and cultural management issues.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Xi Sun, Yuki Iwachido, Shinya Hayashi, Souki Horiuchi, Masataka Kirishita, Akira S. Mori, Takehiro Sasaki
Summary: The study found that functional rarity varies in urban ecosystems, with some native and non-native plant species showing distinct functional rarity at the local scale and not being scarce, natural remnants and anthropogenic habitats play a role in protecting functionally rare species in urban ecosystems.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
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Forestry
Chuanyu Gao, Jinxin Cong, Yang Sun, Dongxue Han, Guoping Wang
Summary: This study evaluated the effects of burning temperature and plant type on the properties of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) in peatlands. The results showed that the effects of burning temperature and plant type on PyC properties were not significant, but the initial compositions of different plants led to variations in PyC composition.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE
(2022)
Review
Forestry
Giacomo Certini, Daniel Moya, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Giovanni Mastrolonardo
Summary: Fire plays a crucial role in shaping the environment and has significant impacts on soil-dwelling organisms. Various research findings worldwide provide insights into the immediate and long-term effects of fires on soil biota biodiversity and activity. Understanding these effects is important for conservation efforts and ecosystem management.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Ecology
Boyd R. Wright, Boris Laffineur, Dominic Roye, Graeme Armstrong, Roderick J. Fensham
Summary: The study focused on arid Australian spinifex grasslands and found that traditional Aboriginal burning did not regulate fire size during extreme-high rainfall periods. While some observations noted small fires during periods of average or below-average rainfall, large-scale wildfires occurred during a high-rainfall period, supporting the importance of climatic factors.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Ecology
Camille Giuliano, Terri Lacourse
Summary: Paleoecological records from lake sediments on Pender Island, Canada, were used to reconstruct fire regimes over the past 10,000 years and understand their interaction with climate and forest composition. The study found that the early Holocene was characterized by frequent fires and open-canopy forests dominated by fire-enduring species. However, as temperature and moisture decreased, fire return intervals lengthened and a mixed fire regime of low to moderate-intensity fires emerged. The findings highlight the importance of long-term interactions between vegetation and fire in shaping fire regimes and forest dynamics.
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Forestry
Elizabeth-Ann K. Jamison, Anthony W. D'Amato, Kevin J. Dodds
Summary: Pitch pine barrens, a globally rare fire-dependent ecosystem, are of great ecological, social, and cultural significance. However, the exclusion of fire has led to habitat degradation and biodiversity loss. This study aims to provide baseline information on their structure and composition to support adaptive management.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Bitao Liu, Fei Han, Kaixiong Xing, Aiping Zhang, Zed Rengel
Summary: Based on a meta-analysis of 879 observations from 66 published studies, it was found that phosphorus and organic fertilizer supply significantly increased shoot and root biomass, as well as root foraging precision. Plant growth and foraging strategies in nutritionally heterogeneous environments are mainly influenced by nutrient type.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Forestry
C. Espinosa del Alba, J. Hjalten, J. Sjogren
Summary: The study evaluated the impacts of restoration methods on forest stands in northern Sweden. Prescribed burning initially caused a decline in diversity but led to an increase in the long term for vascular plants, while ground layer bryophytes remained lower post-restoration. Gap cutting had no significant effects on diversity or community composition.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Clarice Vieira Souza, Agueda Lourenco, Maria Clara Chagas, Emerson M. Vieira
Summary: Understanding the response of mammalian communities to pyrodiversity is important for protecting biodiversity. This study investigated how medium- and large-sized mammals in a neotropical savanna respond to fire frequency, fire age, and spatiotemporal variations in pyrodiversity at different spatial scales. The results showed that mammal richness and diversity increased with variations in fire age, while abundance responded positively to fire frequency diversity but negatively to fire age diversity. Pyrodiversity can lead to rich and diverse mammal communities, but its effect on abundance may be limited. Fire management should focus on the diversity of fire age mosaics, especially for medium and large mammals, and management at intermediate scales is sufficient to generate pyrodiversity that affects mammal communities.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Byron B. Lamont, Ed T. F. Witkowski
Summary: The study investigated the fine-scale spatial patterns of seedlings of 19 co-occurring shrub species postfire, finding that the distance between seedlings and adult plants is primarily a mathematical phenomenon. Despite this, there are marked differences in spatial relations between different functional types, contributing to the biodiversity of the community.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Peter W. Guiden, Nicholas A. Barber, Ryan Blackburn, Anna Farrell, Jessica Fliginger, Sheryl C. Hosler, Richard B. King, Melissa Nelson, Erin G. Rowland, Kirstie Savage, John P. Vanek, Holly P. Jones
Summary: The primary goal of ecological restoration is to increase biodiversity in degraded ecosystems. However, the success of restoration is often assessed by measuring the response of a single functional group, without considering multitrophic interactions. Studies find that management-driven effects on animal communities are stronger than plant-driven effects, and restoration can have both positive and negative effects on biodiversity simultaneously. Further attention to multiple dimensions of animal biodiversity may be beneficial in restoration plans.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Construction & Building Technology
Aatif Ali Khan, Zhuojun Nan, Liming Jiang, Vinny Gupta, Suwen Chen, Mustesin Ali Khan, Juan Hidalgo, Asif Usmani
Summary: Fire safety in modern buildings is crucial, especially in large open-plan compartments where fire behavior differs from traditional small compartments. More research is needed to establish accurate fire models for large compartment fires.
JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
(2022)