The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include
improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and …

Tree planting is increasingly being proposed as a strategy to combat climate change
through carbon (C) sequestration in tree biomass. However, total ecosystem C storage that …

The impacts of vegetation fires on ecosystems are complex and varied affecting a range of
important ecosystem services. Fire has the potential to affect the physicochemical and …

Fire has been used for centuries to generate and manage some of the UK's cultural
landscapes. Despite its complex role in the ecology of UK peatlands and moorlands, there …

Rapidly scaling up the use of prescribed fire is being promoted as an important pathway for
reducing the growing damages of wildfire events in the United States, including limiting the …

Prescribed fire to reduce forest fuels has been routinely applied to reduce wildfire risk in
many parts of the world. It has also been proposed that prescribed fire can be used to …

The structure and functioning of temperate forests are shifting due to changes in climate.
Foreseeing the trajectory of such changes is critical to implementing adequate management …

Peat moorlands are important habitats in the boreal region, where they store approximately
30% of the global soil carbon (C). Prescribed burning on peat is a very contentious …

Upland moors in the UK have been managed for centuries using rotational prescribed-
burning, but in recent years there has been contentious debate over its continuing use due …