Environmental Pollution,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
308, P. 119571 - 119571
Published: June 2, 2022
Estuaries
are
one
of
the
most
valuable
biomes
on
earth.
Although
humans
highly
dependent
these
ecosystems,
anthropogenic
activities
have
impacted
estuaries
worldwide,
altering
their
ecological
functions
and
ability
to
provide
a
variety
important
ecosystem
services.
Many
stressors
combine
affect
soft
sedimentary
habitats
that
dominate
estuarine
ecosystems.
Now,
due
climate
change,
other
marine
areas
might
be
increasingly
exposed
emerging
threat
megafires.
Here,
by
sampling
before
after
megafire,
we
describe
impacts
wildfires
benthic
justify
why
megafires
new
concerning
coastal
We
(1)
show
change
fundamental
characteristics
habitat,
(2)
identify
factors
(burnt
intensity
proximity
water's
edge)
influence
consequences
fires
estuaries,
(3)
relevant
indicators
wildfire
impact:
metals,
nutrients,
pyrogenic
carbon.
then
discuss
how
can
impact
globally,
regardless
local
variability
differences
in
catchment.
In
first
empirical
assessment
condition,
our
results
highlight
may
assist
waterway
managers
empirically
detect
catchment
should
included
fire
risk
assessments
for
estuaries.
Overall,
this
study
highlights
importance
considering
threats
current
future
management.
Global Ecology and Biogeography,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
31(10), P. 1933 - 1948
Published: April 26, 2022
Abstract
Aim
The
aims
were:
(1)
to
identify
the
environmental
drivers
of
interannual
variation
in
wildfire
extent
and
severity;
(2)
examine
temporal
trends
climatic
potential
for
large
severe
wildfires;
(3)
assess
whether
conditions
experienced
during
2019–2020
mega‐fire
season
were
anomalous.
Location
South‐eastern
Australia.
Time
period
1953–2020.
Major
taxa
studied
Temperate
forests.
Methods
We
used
satellite‐derived
fire
severity
mapping
from
1988
2020
model
effects
drought,
weather
fuels
on
annual
area
burned
proportion
that
was
impacted
by
high‐severity
across
four
bioregions.
Trends
then
estimated
1953
using
these
derived
models
gridded
climate
data
changes
wildfires.
Estimates
assessed
against
prior
seasons
(1953–2019).
Results
Annual
positively
related
seasonal
drought
frequency
promote
substantial
daily
growth.
Wildfire
elevated
years
with
increased
increasing
antecedent
without
weather.
Fuels
had
a
lesser
effect
than
climate.
Potential
have
over
time
response
an
worsening
conditions.
approached
upper
extreme
within
each
bioregion,
owing
widespread
Main
conclusions
forest
fires
has
south‐eastern
Australia
since
1950s,
probably
because
anthropogenic
change.
magnitude
reflected
are
driving
increase
size
Earth s Future,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
11(5)
Published: May 1, 2023
Abstract
Wildland
fire
is
expected
to
increase
in
response
global
warming,
yet
little
known
about
future
changes
regimes
Europe.
Here,
we
developed
a
pyrogeography
based
on
statistical
models
better
understand
how
warming
reshapes
across
the
continent.
We
identified
five
large‐scale
pyroregions
with
different
levels
of
area
burned,
frequency,
intensity,
length
period,
size
distribution,
and
seasonality.
All
other
things
being
equal,
was
found
alter
distribution
these
pyroregions,
an
expansion
most
prone
ranging
respectively
from
50%
130%
under
2°
4°C
scenarios.
Our
estimates
indicate
strong
amplification
parts
southern
Europe
subsequent
shift
toward
new
regimes,
implying
substantial
socio‐ecological
impacts
absence
mitigation
or
adaptation
measures.
Global Change Biology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
30(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Changes
to
the
spatiotemporal
patterns
of
wildfire
are
having
profound
implications
for
ecosystems
and
society
globally,
but
we
have
limited
understanding
extent
which
fire
regimes
will
reorganize
in
a
warming
world.
While
predicting
regime
shifts
remains
challenging
because
complex
climate-vegetation-fire
feedbacks,
climate
niches
provides
simple
way
identify
locations
most
at
risk
change.
Using
globally
available
satellite
datasets,
constructed
14
metrics
describing
dimensions
then
delineated
Australia's
pyroregions-the
geographic
area
encapsulating
broad
regime.
Cluster
analysis
revealed
18
pyroregions,
notably
including
(1)
high-intensity,
infrequent
fires
temperate
forests,
(2)
high-frequency,
smaller
tropical
savanna,
(3)
low-intensity,
diurnal,
human-engineered
agricultural
zones.
To
inform
shifts,
identified
where
under
three
CMIP6
scenarios
is
projected
shift
(i)
beyond
each
pyroregion's
historical
niche,
(ii)
into
space
that
novel
Australian
continent.
Under
middle-of-the-road
projections
(SSP2-4.5),
an
average
65%
pyroregions
occurred
their
by
2081-2100.
Further,
52%
pyroregion
extents,
on
average,
were
occur
without
present-day
analogues
continent,
implying
high
shifting
states
also
lack
counterparts.
Pyroregions
hot-arid
climates
both
locally
continentally
narrower
than
southern
already-hot
lead
earlier
departure
from
space.
Such
implies
widespread
emergence
no-analogue
regimes.
Our
approach
can
be
applied
other
regions
assess
vulnerability
rapid
Earth and Space Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(2)
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
Abstract
The
frequency,
severity,
and
spatial
extent
of
destructive
wildfires
have
increased
in
several
regions
globally
over
the
past
decades.
While
direct
impacts
from
are
devastating,
hazardous
legacy
affects
nearby
communities
long
after
flames
been
extinguished.
Post‐wildfire
soil
conditions
control
persistence,
timing
cascading
geohazards
burned
landscapes.
interplay
feedback
between
wildfire‐induced
changes
to
properties,
land
cover
conditions,
near‐surface
surface
processes
still
poorly
understood.
Here,
we
synthesize
that
can
affect
critical
attributes
soils
their
conditioning
subsequent
geohazards.
More
specifically,
discuss
state
knowledge
pertaining
mineralogical,
hydraulic,
mechanical,
thermal
properties
due
wildfire
with
a
focus
on
advances
decade.
We
identify
how
these
alter
evapotranspiration,
interception,
sediment
transport,
infiltration,
runoff.
then
link
alterations
evolution
different
geohazards,
including
dry
raveling,
erosion,
rockfalls,
landslides,
debris
flows,
subsidence.
Finally,
research
gaps
future
directions
advance
various
earth
time.
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
55(1), P. 133 - 155
Published: Aug. 2, 2024
Deadwood
represents
a
significant
carbon
pool
and
unique
biodiversity
reservoir
in
forests
savannas
but
has
been
largely
overlooked
until
recently.
Storage
release
of
from
deadwood
is
controlled
by
interacting
decomposition
drivers
including
biotic
consumers
(animals
microbes)
abiotic
factors
(water,
fire,
sunlight,
freeze–thaw).
Although
previous
research
focused
mainly
on
forests,
we
synthesize
studies
across
diverse
ecosystems
with
woody
vegetation.
As
changing
climates
land-use
practices
alter
the
landscape,
expect
accelerating
variable
rates
inputs
outputs
pools.
Currently,
Earth
system
models
implicitly
represent
only
microbial
as
wood
decomposition;
show
that
many
other
influence
Forest
management
increasingly
recognize
an
important
contributor
to
forest
dynamics,
biodiversity,
budgets.
Together,
emerging
knowledge
modeling
suggests
growing
need
for
additional
contributions
storage
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
99(3), P. 699 - 714
Published: Dec. 17, 2023
ABSTRACT
Many
forest
types
globally
have
been
subject
to
an
increase
in
the
frequency
of,
and
area
burnt
by,
high‐severity
wildfire.
Here
we
explore
role
that
previous
disturbance
has
played
increasing
extent
severity
of
subsequent
fires.
We
summarise
evidence
documenting
explaining
mechanisms
underpinning
a
pulse
flammability
may
follow
disturbances
such
as
fire,
logging,
clearing
or
windthrow
(a
process
term
disturbance‐stimulated
flammability).
Disturbance
sometimes
initiates
short
initial
period
low
flammability,
but
then
drives
extended
increased
vegetation
regrows.
Our
analysis
initially
focuses
on
well‐documented
cases
Australia,
also
discuss
where
these
pattens
apply
elsewhere,
including
Northern
Hemisphere.
outline
by
which
through
disrupting
ecological
controls
limit
it
undisturbed
forests.
develop
test
conceptual
model
aid
prediction
woody
communities
patterns
occur.
interaction
with
climate
change,
is
driving
larger
more
severe
current
state
knowledge
around
point
disturbed,
fire‐prone
stands
are
sufficiently
widespread
landscapes
they
promote
spatial
contagion
wildfire
overwhelms
any
reduction
fire
spread
offered
less‐flammable
stands.
how
land
managers
might
deal
major
challenges
changes
landscape
cover
altered
regimes
created.
This
especially
pertinent
now
dominated
extensive
areas
young
regenerating
after
regrowing
following
broadscale
prescribed
burning,
agricultural
abandonment.
Where
found
stimulate
key
management
actions
should
consider
long‐term
benefits
of:
(
i
)
limiting
disturbance‐based
like
logging
burning
creates
forests
triggers
understorey
development;
ii
protecting
from
assisting
them
transition
older,
state;
iii
reinforcing
fire‐inhibitory
properties
methods
for
rapid
detection
suppression.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
380(1924)
Published: April 1, 2025
Human
activities
have
a
major
impact
on
fire
regimes.
that
cause
landscape
fragmentation,
such
as
creating
roads
and
other
infrastructure
or
converting
areas
to
agriculture,
tend
restrict,
rather
than
promote,
fire.
The
human
influence
is
complex,
however,
the
of
fragmentation
regime
depends
climate
vegetation
conditions.
Climate-induced
changes
in
fuel
loads
also
affect
natural
ways
independent
influence.
Disentangling
controls
regimes
challenging
because
multiple
interactions
between
climate,
vegetation,
people
fire,
different
timescales
over
which
they
operate.
We
explore
these
relationships,
drawing
statistical
modelling
analyses
palaeoenvironmental,
historical
recent
observations
at
regional
global
scales.
show
how
relationships
changed
through
time
vary
spatially
function
environmental
biotic
gradients.
Specifically,
we
climate-driven
been
most
important
drivers
changing
least
until
Industrial
Revolution.
Statistical
no
discernible
hunter–gatherer
communities,
even
time-transgressive
introduction
agriculture
during
Neolithic
had
scale.
post-industrial
expansion
was
an
fires,
but
since
late
19th
century,
overwhelming
humans
has
reduce
progressive
influencing
ignitions.
Model
projections
suggest
reduction
will
be
outweighed
by
climatically
driven
increases
end
21st
century.
This
article
part
theme
issue
‘Novel
under
influences:
impacts,
ecosystem
responses
feedbacks’.
Global Ecology and Biogeography,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
31(10), P. 2056 - 2069
Published: March 6, 2022
Abstract
Aim
Existing
abiotic
and
biotic
threats
to
plant
species
(e.g.,
disease,
drought,
invasive
species)
affect
their
capacity
recover
post‐fire.
We
use
a
new,
globally
applicable
framework
assess
the
vulnerability
of
26,062
Australian
suite
active
after
2019–2020
fires.
Location
Australia.
Time
period
2019–2020.
Major
studied
Plants.
Methods
Spatial
data
for
existing
information
on
species‐level
susceptibility
were
combined
with
estimates
extent
range
burnt
in
southern
Australia
(>
22°S)
assign
against
10
criteria
into
categories
(
high
,
medium
low
none
deficient
).
explore
detail
results
three
(drought,
feral
animals),
highlighting
where
impacts
from
multiple
ranked
may
compound
reduce
post‐fire
recovery.
Results
Analysis
full
criteria,
which
encompass
broad
threats,
revealed
large
numbers
vulnerable
poor
recovery
one
or
more
different
hazards
vulnerability:
1,243
species;
2,450
species).
Collectively,
457
that
extensively
50%)
across
are
highly
due
exposure
pre‐fire
drought
conditions
(235
species),
disease
(186
animals
(97
Of
these
species,
61
than
how
interacting
can
impact
fire.
Main
conclusions
While
fire
renew
populations
by
stimulating
recruitment
resetting
competitive
interactions,
presence
landscapes
jeopardizes
The
simultaneous
create
contribute
declines
and,
potentially,
extinction.
Our
method
rapid
assessment
be
applied
other
biota
affected
regions
globally.
Global Ecology and Biogeography,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
31(10), P. 1898 - 1905
Published: Sept. 8, 2022
Abstract
Aim
Each
year,
wild
and
managed
fires
burn
roughly
4
million
km
2
[~400
hectares
(Mha)]
of
savanna,
forest,
grassland
agricultural
ecosystems.
Land
use
climate
change
have
altered
fire
regimes
throughout
the
world,
with
a
trend
toward
higher‐severity
found
from
Australia,
Americas,
Europe
Asia,
to
Arctic.
In
2020,
there
were
notable
catastrophic
in
Australia
(in
2019/20
Austral
season),
Western
United
States,
South
America
Siberia.
These
defined
much
global
year
compounded
by
socio‐economic
disruption
Coronavirus
2019
(COVID‐19)
pandemic.
Location
Global.
Time
period
2020.
Major
taxa
studied
Flora
fauna.
Methods
The
Global
Ecology
Biogeography
special
issue,
‘Increasing
threat
wildfires:
2020
perspective’,
includes
18
papers
that
catalogue
these
events,
their
drivers
impacts
on
flora
Results
Collectively,
highlight
importance
response
traits,
exposure
sensitivity
interacting
threats
determining
impacts.
Main
conclusions
scale
megafires
has
helped
identify
new
research
areas
required
more
comprehensively
assess
biodiversity
biogeochemistry
inform
ecosystem
management.