Ecologists with a burning desire to protect forests have grim news for the western United States.
Tag - Fire
Dale Maylea
Eurekalert
Botanists find that some herbaceous use fire as a signal to prepare for boosted flowering in the following year
In the prairies of Minnesota, Liatris aspera is almost a real-life phoenix
Alun Salt
Protecting oaks doing conservation genetics with an open heart
Blending traditional knowledge and Western science to strategise the battle against climate change
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Burn it all down: leaf traits change more than species composition
In a fire-adapted ecosystem, increased fire frequency altered community composition and structure of the ecosystem through changes in the position of the shrub line.
Juniper Kiss
How do some plants become flammable? Insights from Dracophyllum
Why would a plant not frequently exposed to fire evolve to burn well?
Liam Elliott
Orchid populations and endophytic fungi change with rainfall and prescribed burning in Pterostylis
Wildfires are common in seasonally dry parts of the world with a Mediterranean climate. Prescribed burning is used to reduce fuel load and fire risk, but information on its effects is often lacking. Jasinge et al...
botanyone
This Carnivorous Plant Needs Its Home to Burn
Like the mythical Phoenix, the Portuguese Sundew is reborn from ashes, but that's a problem when people protect your habitat from flames.
Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment
You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.
Burning trees? Give me a break…
One of the big problems with plants is that their phenomenal photosynthetic efforts produce masses of dry matter. What, that’s a problem..? [Ed. – please, read on…] On the plus side, that fuels global food webs and...
Nigel Chaffey
Intra-population variation in physical dormancy
Differences at the individual plant level contributes to physical dormancy-breaking thresholds for five dormant shrub species from fire-prone vegetation
Maintenance of plant species cohesion despite ongoing hybridization
When species cohesion is maintained despite ongoing natural hybridisation.
AJ Cann
Effects of density and fire on the vital rates and population growth of a perennial goldenaster
In a novel analysis by Gornish published in AoB PLANTS, a regression-design life-table response experiment was used to determine how the interaction of fire and density affected vital rates of the perennial composite...
AoBPLANTS
The ecological importance of sedges (Invited Review)
Sword and rapier sedges (Lepidosperma, Cyperaceae) are common in the southern Australian and New Zealand floras, also occurring in New Caledonia and South-east Asia. Sedge ecology is seldom studied and Barrett provides...
Fire
Picking up on my elemental theme, fire has long been considered a major influence on evolution of the angiosperms, whether natural or anthropogenic conflagrations. This incendiary interaction has not been helped by...
