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ReviewBioscience2025

The role of fire on Earth.

Juli G Pausas, Jon E Keeley, William J Bond

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Review in Bioscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Juli G PausasCentro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Moncada, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3533-5786
Jon E KeeleyUS Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station, Three Rivers, California.
William J BondDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, and with the South African Environmental Observation Network, National Research Foundation, Claremont, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fire is a defining feature of our biosphere, having appeared when the first plants colonized the land, and it continues to occur across the planet at different frequencies and intensities. Fire has been and remains as an evolutionary force in many plant and animal lineages and contributes to explaining the variability of our biodiversity. Fire has also shaped the structure of many ecosystems and the distribution of biomes, and it is an important contributor to the global biogeochemical cycles. In addition, fire has been a key factor in human evolution, and, in turn, humans have modified fire regimes with important consequences for the biosphere. Consequently, fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet. Our challenge now is to understand and predict the role of fire in a densely populated, highly technological world that imposes significant changes on the Earth.

Indexed as

disturbance ecologyevolutionfire ecologyhuman ecologyterrestrial ecosystem

Identifiers

PMID41367902
PMCPMC12683530

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