The role of fire in UK peatland and moorland management: the need for informed, unbiased debate

Comment on: Vegetation burning for game management in the UK uplands is increasing and overlaps spatially with soil carbon and protected areas

(2016) G. Matt Davies et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reply to comment on: Vegetation burning for game management in the UK uplands is increasing and overlaps spatially with soil carbon and protected areas

(2016) David J.T. Douglas et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Prescribed moorland burning meets good practice guidelines: A monitoring case study using aerial photography in the Peak District, UK

(2016) Katherine A. Allen et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Vascular plants promote ancient peatland carbon loss with climate warming

(2016) Tom N. Walker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The pyrohealth transition: how combustion emissions have shaped health through human history

(2016) Fay H. Johnston et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fire in the mind: changing understandings of fire in Western civilization

(2016) Stephen J. Pyne   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Community owned solutions for fire management in tropical ecosystems: case studies from Indigenous communities of South America

(2016) Jayalaxshmi Mistry et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fire effects on soils: the human dimension

(2016) Cristina Santín et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shades of grey: Two forms of grey literature important for reviews in conservation

(2015) Neal R. Haddaway et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Vegetation burning for game management in the UK uplands is increasing and overlaps spatially with soil carbon and protected areas

(2015) David J.T. Douglas et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using palaeoecology to support blanket peatland management

(2015) A. Blundell et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

(2015) Cristina Santín et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation management with fire modifies peatland soil thermal regime

(2015) Lee E. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

(2015) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Carbon stocks and carbon fluxes from a 10-year prescribed burning chronosequence on a UK blanket peat

(2015) G. D. Clay et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Poor methodological detail precludes experimental repeatability and hampers synthesis in ecology

(2015) Neal R. Haddaway et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of fire on the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of peatland river systems

(2015) Lee E. Brown et al.   Freshwater Science

Effects of fire on the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of peatland river systems

(2015) Lee E. Brown et al.   Freshwater Science

Management-driven evolution in a domesticated ecosystem

(2014) V. Vandvik et al.   Biology Letters

Peatland restoration: controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export

(2014) E. L. Shuttleworth et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Science overview and knowledge needs

(2014) William T. Sommers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Five principles for the practice of knowledge exchange in environmental management

(2014) M.S. Reed et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effectiveness of Calluna-heathland restoration methods after invasive plant control

(2013) Josu G. Alday et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services

(2013) Mark S. Reed et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Peat consumption and carbon loss due to smouldering wildfire in a temperate peatland

(2013) G. Matt Davies et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Analysis of large fires in European Mediterranean landscapes: Lessons learned and perspectives

(2013) Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Prescribed burning in southern Europe: developing fire management in a dynamic landscape

(2013) Paulo M Fernandes et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

Changes in peat chemical properties during post-fire succession on blanket bog moorland

(2013) Angus Rosenburgh et al.   GEODERMA

Does prescribed burning result in biotic homogenization of coastal heathlands?

(2013) Liv Guri Velle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Water balance of a burned and unburned forested boreal peatland

(2013) Dan K. Thompson et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Rotational vegetation burning effects on peatland stream ecosystems

(2013) Sorain J. Ramchunder et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Matrix modelling of prescribed burning inCalluna vulgaris-dominated moorland: short burning rotations minimize carbon loss at increased wildfire frequencies

(2013) Katherine A. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Long-term effects of rotational prescribed burning and low-intensity sheep grazing on blanket-bog plant communities

(2013) Hyohyemi Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Controls upon biomass losses and char production from prescribed burning on UK moorland

(2013) Fred Worrall et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The rate of loss of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) through a catchment

(2013) C.S. Moody et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Succession after prescribed burning in coastalCallunaheathlands along a 340-km latitudinal gradient

(2013) Liv G. Velle et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Global Charcoal Mobilization from Soils via Dissolution and Riverine Transport to the Oceans

(2013) R. Jaffe et al.   SCIENCE

Peat properties and water retention in boreal forested peatlands subject to wildfire

(2013) Dan K. Thompson et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Multi-scale relationship between peatland vegetation type and dissolved organic carbon concentration

(2012) A. Armstrong et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Surface runoff and erosion after prescribed burning and the effect of different fire regimes in forests and shrublands: a review

(2012) J. G. Cawson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The impacts of prescribed moorland burning on water colour and dissolved organic carbon: A critical synthesis

(2012) J. Holden et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Does prescribed burning on peat soils influence DOC concentrations in soil and runoff waters? Results from a 10year chronosequence

(2012) Gareth D. Clay et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Effect of Acid Deposition on Quantity and Quality of Dissolved Organic Matter in Soil–Water

(2011) Sara M. Ekström et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Burning and mowing as habitat management for capercaillie Tetrao urogallus: An experimental test

(2011) Mark H. Hancock et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long-term field experiments

(2011) Gareth K. Phoenix et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Factors affecting moorland plant communities and component species in relation to prescribed burning

(2011) Mike P. K. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange in environmental research

(2011) Jeremy Phillipson et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland

(2011) M.R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Communications

Fire intensity, fire severity and ecosystem response in heathlands: factors affecting the regeneration ofCalluna vulgaris

(2010) G. Matt Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Charcoal production in a UK moorland wildfire – How important is it?

(2010) Gareth D. Clay et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Carbon budgets of an upland blanket bog managed by prescribed fire

(2010) Gareth D. Clay et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Land management as a factor controlling dissolved organic carbon release from upland peat soils 2: Changes in DOC productivity over four decades

(2010) B. Clutterbuck et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests

(2009) Scott L. Stephens et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Postfire carbon balance in boreal bogs of Alberta, Canada

(2009) R. KELMAN WIEDER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Developing an Adaptive Management approach to prescribed burning: a long-term heathland conservation experiment in north-west Italy

(2009) Davide Ascoli et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Effects of managed burning upon dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil water and runoff water following a managed burn of a UK blanket bog

(2009) Gareth D. Clay et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Compositional changes in soil water and runoff water following managed burning on a UK upland blanket bog

(2009) Gareth D. Clay et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Fire in the Earth System

(2009) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   SCIENCE

The effect of traditional management burning on lichen diversity

(2008) G. Matt Davies et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Sphagnum mosses limit total carbon consumption during fire in Alaskan black spruce forests

(2008) Gordon Shetler et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Spatial Patterns and Temporal Trajectories of the Bog Ground Layer Along a Post-Fire Chronosequence

(2008) Brian W. Benscoter et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Quantitative Evidence for Increasing Forest Fire Severity in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Mountains, California and Nevada, USA

(2008) J. D. Miller et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Air Quality Impacts from Prescribed Forest Fires under Different Management Practices

(2008) Di Tian et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Actinomycetal complexes in drained peat soils of the taiga zone upon pyrogenic succession

(2008) G. M. Zenova et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE