ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
Fire effects on soils: the human dimension.
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- Urban Conflagrations: Structural Ash and Soil Metal(loid) Contamination after California's Eaton and Palisades Fires.Environmental science & technology letters · 2026Article
- Impact of Fire and Heat Stress on Soil Microorganisms: A Review of Community Changes, Molecular Responses and Plant-Beneficial Roles.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Review
- The role of fire on Earth.Bioscience · 2025Review
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- Assessing WildfireGPT: a comparative analysis of AI models for quantitative wildfire spread prediction.Natural hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Topographic controls on soil organic carbon partitioning and enzyme dynamics in nutrient-poor soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Combinative effects of thinning and prescribed burning on fuel reduction and soil arthropods: A case study in a Mediterranean pine forest.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Beta Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Communities Increases in Time after Crop Establishment of Peruvian Sacha Inchi (Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Wildfire-induced pollution and its short-term impact on COVID-19 cases and mortality in California.Gondwana research : international geoscience journal · 2023Article
- Soil microbial diversity under different types of interference in birch secondary forest in the Greater Khingan Mountains in China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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- An integrated approach for the restoration of Australian temperate grasslands invaded by Nassella trichotoma.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Potentially Toxic Substances and Associated Risks in Soils Affected by Wildfires: A Review.Toxics · 2022Review
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- A multi-hazard map-based flooding, gully erosion, forest fires, and earthquakes in Iran.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Combined Effect of Laboratory-Simulated Fire and Chromium Pollution on Microbial Communities in an Agricultural Soil.Biology · 2021Article
- Fire alters diversity, composition, and structure of dry tropical forests in the Eastern Ghats.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted on soils from its early days in many different ways, with burning being the first human perturbation at landscape scales. Fire has long been used as a tool to fertilize soils and control plant growth, but it can also substantially change vegetation, enhance soil erosion and even cause desertification of previously productive areas. Indeed fire is now regarded by some as the seventh soil-forming factor. Here we explore the effects of fire on soils as influenced by human interference. Human-induced fires have shaped our landscape for thousands of years and they are currently the most common fires in many parts of the world. We first give an overview of fire effect on soils and then focus specifically on (i) how traditional land-use practices involving fire, such as slash-and-burn or vegetation clearing, have affected and still are affecting soils; (ii) the effects of more modern uses of fire, such as fuel reduction or ecological burns, on soils; and (iii) the ongoing and potential future effects on soils of the complex interactions between human-induced land cover changes, climate warming and fire dynamics.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.
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