Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

DMJS Bowman, GLW Perry… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …

[HTML][HTML] Goat grazing as a wildfire prevention tool: A basic review

R Lovreglio, O Meddour-Sahar… - Iforest-Biogeosciences and …, 2014 - iforest.sisef.org
Fuel treatments aimed at reducing both horizontal and vertical continuity in fuels are of
paramount importance as a prevention measure against fire propagation. Possible …

Ungulate preference for burned patches reveals strength of fire–grazing interaction

BW Allred, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle… - Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between fire and grazing are widespread throughout fire‐dependent
landscapes. The utilization of burned areas by grazing animals establishes the fire–grazing …

Native and domestic browsers and grazers reduce fuels, fire temperatures, and acacia ant mortality in an African savanna

DM Kimuyu, RL Sensenig, C Riginos… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the importance of fire and herbivory in structuring savanna systems, few replicated
experiments have examined the interactive effects of herbivory and fire on plant dynamics. In …

Effects of biological legacies and herbivory on fuels and flammability traits: A long‐term experimental study of alternative stable states

M Blackhall, E Raffaele, J Paritsis, F Tiribelli… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological memory, often determined by the extent and type of retained biological legacies
present following disturbance, may produce persistent landscape patterns. However, after …

Interactions among fire, grazing, harvest and abiotic conditions shape palm demographic responses to disturbance

L Mandle, T Ticktin - Journal of Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the drivers of plant demography is integral to understanding the processes that
shape plant species abundances and distributions. Despite recognition that interactions …

Resilience of palm populations to disturbance is determined by interactive effects of fire, herbivory and harvest

L Mandle, T Ticktin, PA Zuidema - Journal of Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about the interactive effects of multiple forms of disturbance–natural or
anthropogenic–on plant population dynamics. This limits our ability to understand the drivers …

Fires in seasonally dry tropical forest: testing the varying constraints hypothesis across a regional rainfall gradient

N Mondal, R Sukumar - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The “varying constraints hypothesis” of fire in natural ecosystems postulates that the extent
of fire in an ecosystem would differ according to the relative contribution of fuel load and fuel …

Interactions between the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) and fire in south-eastern Australia

DT Nugent, SWJ Leonard, MF Clarke - Wildlife Research, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Context The superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae is thought to be an important
ecosystem engineer that, through its foraging, accelerates the decomposition of litter in …

Synergistic effects of long‐term herbivory and previous fire on fine‐scale heterogeneity of prescribed grassland burns

CM Werner, D Kimuyu, KE Veblen, RL Sensenig… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grassland and savanna ecosystems, important for both livelihoods and biodiversity
conservation, are strongly affected by ecosystem drivers such as herbivory, fire, and drought …