Keyword

fire frequency

Description: A measure of how often fires occur in a landscape over a specified period, used in ecology to describe fire regimes and vegetation dynamics.

Primary topic: Fire effects on ecosystems (68%)

Related topic: Fire effects on ecosystems (68%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/fire-frequency

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

2011 · Jon E. Keeley, Juli G. Pausas, et al. · Trends in Plant Science · 1,174

Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

2011 · Francisco Moreira, Olga Viedma, et al. · Journal of Environmental Management · 925

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Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

2013 · Sally Archibald, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 840

Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

2011 · Juli G. Pausas, Santiago Fernández-Muñoz · Climatic Change · 826

Particle Motion and the Theory of Charcoal Analysis: Source Area, Transport, Deposition, and Sampling

1988 · James S. Clark · Quaternary Research · 814

A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications

2010 · R. A. Bradstock · Global Ecology and Biogeography · 798

Dynamics of shrub encroachment in an African savanna: relative influences of fire, herbivory, rainfall and density dependence

2001 · K.G. Roques, T.G. O'Connor, et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 776

Fire and vegetation dynamics: studies from the North American boreal forest

1993 · Choice Reviews Online · 764

An Ecosystem in Transition: Causes and Consequences of the Conversion of Mesic Grassland to Shrubland

2005 · JOHN M. BRIGGS, ALAN K. KNAPP, et al. · BioScience · 726

Fire and Landscape Diversity in Subalpine Forests of Yellowstone National Park

1982 · William H. Romme · Ecological Monographs · 692

Causes and consequences of woody plant encroachment into western North American grasslands

2009 · O.W. Van Auken · Journal of Environmental Management · 686

Human Influence on California Fire Regimes

2007 · Alexandra D. Syphard, Volker C. Radeloff, et al. · Ecological Applications · 661

Fire and The Australian Flora: A Review

1975 · A. MALCOLM GILL · Australian Forestry · 644

Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States

2003 · MARK E. FENN, JILL S. BARON, et al. · BioScience · 639

Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

2011 · Anthony L. Westerling, Monica G. Turner, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 629

Woody Plant Encroachment: Causes and Consequences

2017 · Steven R. Archer, Erik M. Andersen, et al. · Springer series on environmental management · 621

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A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

2016 · Jeremy S. Littell, David L. Peterson, et al. · Global Change Biology · 571

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L) dominance in the Great Basin Desert

1996 · Paul A Knapp · Global Environmental Change · 560

Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

2017 · Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Anders Ahlström, et al. · Nature · 551

A simple framework for relating variations in runoff to variations in climatic conditions and catchment properties

2011 · Michael L. Roderick, Graham D. Farquhar · Water Resources Research · 539

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Design, development, and application of LANDIS-II, a spatial landscape simulation model with flexible temporal and spatial resolution

2006 · Robert M. Scheller, James B. Domingo, et al. · Ecological Modelling · 528

The effect of fire season, fire frequency, rainfall and management on fire intensity in savanna vegetation in South Africa

2006 · NAVASHNI GOVENDER, WINSTON S. W. TROLLOPE, et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 522

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Fire as a large-scale edge effect in Amazonian forests

2002 · Mark A. Cochrane, William F. Laurance · Journal of Tropical Ecology · 519

Changing fire frequencies on Idaho's Snake River plains: ecological and management implications

1992 · S. G. Whisenant · Biological Conservation · 519

Fire and Vegetation Dynamics

1992 · Edward A. Johnson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 512

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Citation count: 160,400