We cover:
🔥 Key mechanisms that regulate how populations respond to fire regimes, shared across taxa.

🔥 Key fire-related functional traits.

🔥Trait expressions that make species populations more vulnerable, or resilient to fire regimes.

🔥Interactions between fire and other threatening processes.

We cover:
🔥 Key fire metrics used in ecological research to inform fire regime attributes, that can be energetic, temporal, or spatial
🔥 Demonstrate existing ambiguity
🔥 Suggest working definitions, and provide example applications of fire metrics based on ecological processes of interest.

We had noticed the murky ways that fire was being referenced and described, and the need for shared language for fire-related research in this time of global change.

We hope that this paper is useful to interpret, apply, and scale fire-related ecological knowledge across ecosystems and continents.

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! 😊 I'm a great fan of your work !

This is a very nice paper about restoring the ecological role of people that you might be interested in. It points to the role that people have within the trophic web and in the sustainment of ecological processes (rewilding). : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great Q! Fire drives biodiversity in many parts of the world, including Europe. Lightning, people, and in some places even birds of prey, have lit fires and shaped resilient ecosystems for millennia. For example, this paper shows fire in the Irish Charcoal record in ~15,500BC tinyurl.com/thj5b9xt

Thanks Dylan 😊

From the re-introduction of herbivorous and hydrological engineers, to promoting mosaic burning, to relaxing fire suppression, strengthening important ecological processes is promising to restore fire regimes and enhance ecosystem function in many socio-ecological contexts worldwide.

We cover:
1) How fire regimes have been altered by recent pressures
2) Interactions between fire, dispersal, and trophic complexity
3) Approaches to define “restored” fire regimes
4) A general pathway for restoring fire regimes through ecological processes
5) Key challenges and opportunities

Fire patterns are altered in many places, threatening ecosystem function.

We need action to restore fire patterns, including trying new approaches.

We explore how recovering important ecological processes (known as rewilding in the Northern hemispheres), may be promising to restore fire patterns