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 …

Bees are the predominant pollinating taxa, providing a critical ecosystem service upon
which many angiosperms rely for successful reproduction. Available data suggests that bee …

Rangeland management, like most disciplines of natural resource management, has been
characterized by human efforts to reduce variability and increase predictability in natural …

The profound impacts of fire on natural ecosystems have moulded many aspects of life on
Earth, but many of these effects remain poorly understood, other than in the most general …

Fire is a natural process in grasslands that maintains an open canopy and creates variable
vegetative structure and composition over time. Although there is a wealth of knowledge on …

Sustaining livestock agriculture is important for global food security. Livestock productivity,
however, can fluctuate due to many environmental factors, including climate variability …

Many rangelands evolved under an interactive disturbance regime in which grazers respond
to the spatial pattern of fire and create a patchy, heterogeneous landscape. Spatially …

Many rangelands of the world are fire dependent and display a strong interaction between
fire and grazing on animal behavior, productivity and ecosystem processes. The application …

Invasive species are suspected to be major contributors to biodiversity declines worldwide.
Counterintuitively, however, invasive species effects are likely scale dependent and are …

During the 20st century, the Mediterranean landscape has been transformed by the
appearance of pine plantations of considerable economic value. However, these plantations …