A roadmap for pyrodiversity science

High‐severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent ranges

(2023) J. N. Williams et al.   Ecosphere

High‐severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human‐altered forests

(2023) JonahMaria Weeks et al.   Ecosphere

Making the ‘Local’ Visible in Social Work Education: Insights from Nigeria and Scotland on (Re)balancing and Contextualising Indigenous and International Knowledge

(2022) Susan Levy et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK

Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests

(2022) Jacob I Levine et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

What do you mean, ‘megafire’?

(2022) Grant D. Linley et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

(2022) Mari‐Liis Viljur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

(2021) Gavin M. Jones et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

When bigger isn’t better—Implications of large high‐severity wildfire patches for avian diversity and community composition

(2021) Zachary L. Steel et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Epiphytic macrolichen communities take decades to recover after high‐severity wildfire in chaparral shrublands

(2021) Jesse E. D. Miller et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers

(2021) Zachary L. Steel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intermediate fire severity diversity promotes richness of forest carnivores in California

(2021) Brett J. Furnas et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

(2021) R. K. Hagmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire

(2021) Dale G. Nimmo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Resilience of Dry Western United States Forests

(2021) M P North et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia

(2021) Philip E. Higuera et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship

(2021) Kira M. Hoffman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America

(2021) Henriette I. Jager et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes

(2021) Emily J Fusco et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Pyrodiversity promotes interaction complementarity and population resistance

(2020) Lauren C. Ponisio   Ecology and Evolution

Warmer and drier fire seasons contribute to increases in area burned at high severity in western US forests from 1985‐2017

(2020) S. A. Parks et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The missing fire: quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA

(2019) Ryan D. Haugo et al.   Ecosphere

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

(2019) Tianhua He et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Giving Ecological Meaning to Satellite-Derived Fire Severity Metrics across North American Forests

(2019) Parks et al.   Remote Sensing

Extent and drivers of vegetation type conversion in Southern California chaparral

(2019) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   Ecosphere

Nest site selection and nest survival of Black-backed Woodpeckers after wildfire

(2019) Andrew N Stillman et al.   CONDOR

Aboriginal burning promotes fine-scale pyrodiversity and native predators in Australia's Western Desert

(2018) Rebecca Bliege Bird et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas

(2018) Colin M. Beale et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Edge effects in fire-prone landscapes: Ecological importance and implications for fauna

(2018) Kate Parkins et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Interacting and non-linear avian responses to mixed-severity wildfire and time since fire

(2018) Paul J. Taillie et al.   Ecosphere

Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes

(2018) Dale G. Nimmo et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Multidecadal trends in area burned with high severity in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 1880–2012

(2017) Penelope Morgan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fly and wasp diversity responds to elements of both the visible and invisible fire mosaic

(2017) Julian Brown et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States

(2017) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using fire to promote biodiversity

(2017) L. T. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

Pyrodiversity begets plant-pollinator community diversity

(2016) Lauren C. Ponisio et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

(2016) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring

(2016) Anthony LeRoy Westerling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire

(2016) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting conifer establishment post wildfire in mixed conifer forests of the North American Mediterranean-climate zone

(2016) Kevin R. Welch et al.   Ecosphere

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity

(2015) Clay Trauernicht et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USA

(2015) Elizabeth F. van Mantgem et al.   Fire Ecology

Temperate and boreal forest mega-fires: characteristics and challenges

(2014) Scott L Stephens et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

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

Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt

(2014) Justin D. Yeakel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

(2013) Kevin C Ryan et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

(2013) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

(2011) E. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

(2010) D. B. McWethy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

(2009) Mike D. Flannigan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

(2008) R. Bliege Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA