Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver

Beating the blaze: Fire survival in the fan aloe (K umara plicatilis ), a succulent monocotyledonous tree endemic to the Cape fynbos, South Africa

(2015) Stephen R. Cousins et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Fire ecology of C3and C4grasses depends on evolutionary history and frequency of burning but not photosynthetic type

(2015) Brad Ripley et al.   ECOLOGY

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

(2015) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Long-distance spotting potential of bark strips of a ribbon gum (Eucalyptus viminalis)

(2015) James Hall et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Determinants of flammability in savanna grass species

(2015) Kimberley J. Simpson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size

(2015) William K. Cornwell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bud protection: a key trait for species sorting in a forest-savanna mosaic

(2015) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Secondary compounds enhance flammability in a Mediterranean plant

(2015) J. G. Pausas et al.   OECOLOGIA

Evolutionary fire ecology: lessons learned from pines

(2015) Juli G. Pausas   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The Flammability of Forest and Woodland Litter: a Synthesis

(2015) J. Morgan Varner et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Abrupt Climate-Independent Fire Regime Changes

(2014) Juli G. Pausas et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Bark thickness and fire regime

(2014) Juli G. Pausas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Alternative fire-driven vegetation states

(2014) Juli G. Pausas   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Genetic component of flammability variation in a Mediterranean shrub

(2014) B. Moreira et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Savanna fire and the origins of the ‘underground forests’ of Africa

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

(2014) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Have plants evolved to self-immolate?

(2014) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Flammability is not selected for, it emerges

(2013) Jeremy J. Midgley   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

(2013) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY

The rising Great Plains fire campaign: citizens' response to woody plant encroachment

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The global fire-productivity relationship

(2013) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Refining thresholds in coupled fire-vegetation models to improve management of encroaching woody plants in grasslands

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Leaf traits and litter flammability: evidence for non-additive mixture effects in a temperate forest

(2013) Rita M. Q. de Magalhães et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Physiological differences explain the co-existence of different regeneration strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2013) Alberto Vilagrosa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Patterns of flammability of the California oaks: the role of leaf traits

(2012) Eamon A. Engber et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Response of Succulents to Fire: A review

(2012) P.A Thomas   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Tree cover-fire interactions promote the persistence of a fire-sensitive conifer in a highly flammable savanna

(2012) Clay Trauernicht et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flammability as a biological concept

(2012) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire-adapted traits ofPinusarose in the fiery Cretaceous

(2012) Tianhua He et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest

(2011) Dylan W. Schwilk et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fires enhance flammability in Ulex parviflorus

(2011) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Banksia born to burn

(2011) Tianhua He et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

(2011) Jon E. Keeley et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants?

(2010) Paul R. Gagnon et al.   ECOLOGY

Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient

(2010) Meg A. Krawchuk et al.   ECOLOGY

Firebrands and spotting ignition in large-scale fires

(2010) Eunmo Koo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Demise of Fire and “Mesophication” of Forests in the Eastern United States

(2008) Gregory J. Nowacki et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders

(2008) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The relationship between terpenes and flammability of leaf litter

(2008) Elena Ormeño et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT