Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora

Fire and plant diversity at the global scale

(2017) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire-Proneness as a Prerequisite for the Evolution of Fire-Adapted Traits

(2017) Byron B. Lamont et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Phylogeny strongly drives seed dormancy and quality in a climatically buffered hotspot for plant endemism

(2016) Roberta L. C. Dayrell et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Mediterranean Biomes: Evolution of Their Vegetation, Floras, and Climate

(2016) Philip W. Rundel et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America

(2016) Marc-André Parisien et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The oldestPinusand its preservation by fire

(2016) Howard J. Falcon-Lang et al.   GEOLOGY

Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver

(2016) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate refugees going underground - a response to Maurinet al. (2014)

(2016) Manfred Finckh et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes to Cretaceous surface fire behaviour influenced the spread of the early angiosperms

(2016) Claire M. Belcher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bird pollinators, seed storage and cockatoo granivores explain large woody fruits as best seed defense in Hakea

(2016) Byron B. Lamont et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

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

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges: Table 1.

(2016) Christopher I. Roos et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fitness benefits of serotiny in fire- and drought-prone environments

(2016) Casey Lee Causley et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

(2016) Maria S. Vorontsova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cool echidnas survive the fire

(2016) Julia Nowack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

A Cretaceous origin for fire adaptations in the Cape flora

(2016) Tianhua He et al.   Scientific Reports

Fossil evidence for open, Proteaceae-dominated heathlands and fire in the Late Cretaceous of Australia

(2015) Raymond J. Carpenter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The rise of fire: Fossil charcoal in late Devonian marine shales as an indicator of expanding terrestrial ecosystems, fire, and atmospheric change

(2015) S. M. Rimmer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Lower Cretaceous deposit reveals first evidence of a post-wildfire debris flow in the Kirkwood Formation, Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape, South Africa

(2015) Robert A. Muir et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

A 350-million-year legacy of fire adaptation among conifers

(2015) Tianhua He et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Influence of tree species on continental differences in boreal fires and climate feedbacks

(2015) Brendan M. Rogers et al.   Nature Geoscience

Secondary compounds enhance flammability in a Mediterranean plant

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

Evolution of the South Asian monsoon wind system since the late Middle Miocene

(2015) Anil K. Gupta et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

(2015) Stephen D. Hopper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

ASelaginella moellendorffiiOrtholog of KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 Functions in Arabidopsis Development but Cannot Mediate Responses to Karrikins or Strigolactones

(2015) Mark T. Waters et al.   PLANT CELL

Fire-related cues and the germination of eight Conostylis (Haemodoraceae) taxa, when freshly collected, after burial and after laboratory storage

(2015) Katherine S. Downes et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

The impact of fire on the Late Paleozoic Earth system

(2015) Ian J. Glasspool et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Faecal mimicry by seeds ensures dispersal by dung beetles

(2015) Jeremy J. Midgley et al.   Nature Plants

Seasonality of Fire Weather Strongly Influences Fire Regimes in South Florida Savanna-Grassland Landscapes

(2015) William J. Platt et al.   PLoS One

How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain

(2014) Reed F. Noss et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The enigma of the rise of angiosperms: can we untie the knot?

(2014) L. Augusto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biomass and litter accumulation patterns in species-rich shrublands for fire hazard assessment

(2014) V. C. Westcott et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Evolution and biogeography of gymnosperms

(2014) Xiao-Quan Wang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The remarkable congruence of New and Old World savanna origins

(2014) R. Toby Pennington et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

First known fire scar on a fossil tree trunk provides evidence of Late Triassic wildfire

(2014) Bruce A. Byers et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Have plants evolved to self-immolate?

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

The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: An Evolving Paradigm

(2013) Isabel P. Montañez et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Serotiny in southern hemisphere conifers

(2013) P. G. Ladd et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The origins and mechanisms of karrikin signalling

(2013) Mark T Waters et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

EFFECTS OF A FIRE RESPONSE TRAIT ON DIVERSIFICATION IN REPLICATED RADIATIONS

(2013) Glenn Litsios et al.   EVOLUTION

Adaptive responses to directional trait selection in the Miocene enabled Cape proteas to colonize the savanna grasslands

(2013) Byron B. Lamont et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The global fire-productivity relationship

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

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

(2013) Sebastian Hoetzel et al.   Nature Geoscience

In situgenetic association for serotiny, a fire-related trait, in Mediterranean maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)

(2013) Katharina B. Budde et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Natural history of a plant trait: branch-system abscission in Paleozoic conifers and its environmental, autecological, and ecosystem implications in a fire-prone world

(2013) Cindy V. Looy   PALEOBIOLOGY

A Role for MORE AXILLARY GROWTH1 (MAX1) in Evolutionary Diversity in Strigolactone Signaling Upstream of MAX2

(2013) R. J. Challis et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

Coniferopsid tree trunks preserved in sabkha facies in the Permian (Sakmarian) Community Pit Formation in south-central New Mexico, U.S.A.: Systematics and palaeoecology

(2013) Howard J. Falcon-Lang et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Fire-adapted Gondwanan Angiosperm floras evolved in the Cretaceous

(2012) Byron B Lamont et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rainfall erosivity in Brazil: A review

(2012) Paulo Tarso Sanches Oliveira et al.   CATENA

Cretaceous wildfires and their impact on the Earth system

(2012) Sarah A.E. Brown et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

The burning of Gondwana: Permian fires on the southern continent—A palaeobotanical approach

(2012) André Jasper et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Fire and the Angiosperm Revolutions

(2012) William J. Bond et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Karrikin and Cyanohydrin Smoke Signals Provide Clues to New Endogenous Plant Signaling Compounds

(2012) Gavin R. Flematti et al.   Molecular Plant

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire-adapted traits ofPinusarose in the fiery Cretaceous

(2012) Tianhua He et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Origin of strigolactones in the green lineage

(2012) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the breakup of Pangea

(2012) K. Mao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Charcoal in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe—palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance

(2012) Dieter Uhl et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

The age and diversification of terrestrial New World ecosystems through Cretaceous and Cenozoic time

(2011) A. Graham   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Product Distribution from the Fast Pyrolysis of Hemicellulose

(2011) Pushkaraj R. Patwardhan et al.   ChemSusChem

Transitional changes in arborescent lignophytes at the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary

(2011) Anne-Laure Decombeix et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Genes to ecosystems: exploring the frontiers of ecology with one of the smallest biological units

(2011) Adam S. Wymore et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Banksia born to burn

(2011) Tianhua He et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fitness and evolution of resprouters in relation to fire

(2011) Byron B. Lamont et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa

(2011) Byron B. Lamont et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The family of terpene synthases in plants: a mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom

(2011) Feng Chen et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

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

Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   Nature Communications

How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness

(2011) Michael J. Lawes et al.   Ecosphere

Fossil charcoal from the Middle Jurassic of the Ordos Basin, China and its paleoatmospheric implications

(2011) Lawrence H. Tanner et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change

(2010) Claire M. Belcher et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

(2010) Ian J. Glasspool et al.   Nature Geoscience

Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

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

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

(2010) C. M. Belcher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating the age of fire in the Cape flora of South Africa from an orchid phylogeny

(2010) B. Bytebier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Recurrent abnormalities in conifer cones and the evolutionary origins of flower-like structures

(2010) Paula J. Rudall et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen: New results using the GEOCARBSULF model

(2009) R. A. Berner   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf hydraulic evolution led a surge in leaf photosynthetic capacity during early angiosperm diversification

(2009) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

DIVERSIFICATION OF THE AFRICAN GENUSPROTEA(PROTEACEAE) IN THE CAPE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT AND BEYOND: EQUAL RATES IN DIFFERENT BIOMES

(2009) Luis M. Valente et al.   EVOLUTION

Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey

(2009) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

(2009) Stephen D. Hopper   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejon Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

(2009) S. L. Wing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstruction of the Pennsylvanian-age walchian conifer Emporia cryptica sp. nov. (Emporiaceae: Voltziales)

(2009) Genaro R. Hernandez-Castillo et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Fire in the Earth System

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

Angiosperm diversification through time

(2008) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Darwin's second “abominable mystery”: Why are there so many angiosperm species?

(2008) William L. Crepet et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

L’évolution des premiers arbres : les stratégies dévoniennes

(2008) Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Simulating the effects of different spatio-temporal fire regimes on plant metapopulation persistence in a Mediterranean-type region

(2008) J. Groeneveld et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots

(2008) H. Sauquet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA