ArticleThe New phytologist2018
On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the tropics.
Article in The New phytologist, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Fire, environmental and anthropogenic controls on pantropical tree cover.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
- How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest-grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest-steppe.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
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- Fire regimes, fire experiments and alternative stable states in mesic savannas: A response to Laris & Jacobs (2021) 'On the problem of natural savanna fires'.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- The Role of Vegetation on the Dynamics of Water and Fire in the Cerrado Ecosystems: Implications for Management and Conservation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Effects of canopy midstory management and fuel moisture on wildfire behavior.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Increased aridity drives post-fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands.The New phytologist · 2020Article
- Palaeo-trajectories of forest savannization in the southern Congo.Biology letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
We assessed data from 11 experiments examining the effects of the timing and/or frequency of fire on tropical forest and/or savanna vegetation structure over one decade or more. The initial 'control treatment' in many such cases consisted of previously cleared land. This is as opposed to natural vegetation subject to some sort of endogenous fire regime before the imposition of fire treatments. Effects of fire on fractional foliar cover are up to 10-fold greater when clearing pre-treatments are imposed. Moreover, because many of the 'classic' fire trials were initialised with applied management questions in mind, most have also used burning regimes much more frequent and/or severe than those occurring in the absence of human activity. Once these factors are taken into account, our modelling analysis shows that nonanthropogenic fire regimes serve to reduce canopy vegetative cover to a much lower extent than has previously been argued to be the case. These results call into question the notion that fire effects on tropical vegetation can be of a sufficient magnitude to maintain open-type savanna ecosystems under climatic/soil regimes otherwise sufficient to give rise to a more luxurious forest-type vegetation cover.
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