ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities.Global change biology · 2025Pooled it
- Pyrodiversity and Phylodiversity: Insights on Post-Fire Forest Communities.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Disturbance Mosaics Shape Multiple Pollinator Taxa Across Spatial and Temporal Scales in Fire-Managed Forests.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Fire Frequency Driven Increases in Burn Heterogeneity Promote Microbial Beta Diversity: A Test of the Pyrodiversity-Biodiversity Hypothesis.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Fire-modulated fluctuations in nutrient availability stimulate biome-scale floristic turnover in time, and elevated species richness, in low-nutrient fynbos heathland.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The fuel-climate-fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change?Global change biology · 2022Article
- Population collapse of a Gondwanan conifer follows the loss of Indigenous fire regimes in a northern Australian savanna.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
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Abstract
Pyrodiversity or variation in spatio-temporal fire patterns is increasingly recognized as an important determinant of ecological pattern and process, yet no consensus surrounds how best to quantify the phenomenon and its drivers remain largely untested. We present a generalizable functional diversity approach for measuring pyrodiversity, which incorporates multiple fire regime traits and can be applied across scales. Further, we tested the socioecological drivers of pyrodiversity among forests of the western United States. Largely mediated by burn activity, pyrodiversity was positively associated with actual evapotranspiration, climate water deficit, wilderness designation, elevation and topographic roughness but negatively with human population density. These results indicate pyrodiversity is highest in productive areas with pronounced annual dry periods and minimal fire suppression. This work can facilitate future pyrodiversity studies including whether and how it begets biodiversity among taxa, regions and fire regimes.
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