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...
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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.
Alun Salt
Smoke On The Water
Some plants live in environments where fire is a frequent enemy to survival. The answer is turn fire to your advantage.
AJ Cann
Variable seed dormancy and germination in Hibbertia
Several ecologically important plant families in Mediterranean biomes have seeds with morphophysiological dormancy. Hidayati et al. study four species of the intractably dormant Australian genus Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)...
Phytophoenixism
In biology, matters are rarely either good or bad; oftentimes they may be both at once (albeit usually for different organisms). Take for instance hydrogen cyanide, which is widely regarded to be rather bad since it is...
Nigel Chaffey
Germination stimulation by smoke but not by a butenolide
Tersonia cyathiflora (Gyrostemonaceae) is a fire ephemeral with an obligate requirement for smoke to germinate. Downes et al. (pp. 381–384) find that this species does not respond to a butenolide from smoke that...
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