Indigenous Burning Sustained California Coastal Prairies for Over 1,300 Years, Review Finds
A new review synthesizes fire scars, sediment cores, phytoliths and archaeological finds to conclude that Indigenous cultural burning maintained Central ...
Tag: fire ecology
Six Decades of Seasonal Fires Show Little Effect on Tree Survival in Namibian Woodland
A long-term fire experiment in Namibia's Baikiaea woodlands found that tree survival depended more on tree height and species identity ...
Fire Kills a Third of Reptiles in Mexico’s Sierra Morelos
A two-year field study found that fire killed roughly one-third of reptiles detected in burned areas of Sierra Morelos, Mexico, ...
Kurdistan’s oak forests are burning more each year as heat and drought intensify
A 24-year satellite analysis reveals significantly increasing burned areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, driven by rising temperatures and ...
Fire Consumes Ancient Charcoal and Makes Rest More Vulnerable to Decay
A controlled reburning experiment shows that subsequent fires remove preexisting pyrogenic organic matter both by directly combusting it and by ...
Slash and Burn Treatments Effectively Reduce Post-Fire Recruitment of the Invasive Shrub Hakea decurrens
A three-year field study in central Portugal shows that Slash and Slash & Burn treatments significantly reduce post-fire seedling recruitment ...
Satellite Fire Maps Hide a Split Personality: New Study Decodes What Sentinel-2 Indices Really See After Wildfire
A field study in a fire-scarred Turkish Pinus brutia forest shows that the Sentinel-2 indices dNBR, RdNBR, and NDVI each ...
Fire Reaches the Summit of Mount Roraima for the First Time on Record
Scientists report the first recorded fire on the summit of Roraima-tepui, warning that tourism, invasive grasses, and drought are exposing ...
Fire Rewrote the Recipe: A Decade of Kangaroo Island Honey Reveals a Landscape in Recovery
Chemical fingerprints in honey from the world's last Ligurian honeybee sanctuary reveal how the 2019–2020 bushfires permanently altered Kangaroo Island's ...
Fire strategies of pines shape which fungi break down their needles
A reciprocal litterbag experiment in Taiwan reveals that fire-tolerant and fire-avoiding pine species drive distinct fungal successions during needle decomposition, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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