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Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits
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Traits, such as resprouting, serotiny and germination by heat and smoke, are adaptive in fire-prone environments. However, plants are not adapted to fire per se but to fire regimes. Species can be threatened when humans alter the regime, often by increasing or decreasing fire frequency. Fire-adaptive traits are potentially the result of different evolutionary pathways. Distinguishing between traits that are adaptations originating in response to fire or exaptations originating in response to other factors might not always be possible. However, fire has been a factor throughout the history of land-plant evolution and is not strictly a Neogene phenomenon. Mesozoic fossils show evidence of fire-adaptive traits and, in some lineages, these might have persisted to the present as fire adaptations.
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- Authors
- Keeley, J. E., Pausas, J. G., Rundel, P. W., Bond, W. J., & Bradstock, R. A.
- Affiliations
- United States Geological Survey (US)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Keeley, Jon E.
- Venue
- Trends in Plant Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 406-411
- ISSN
- 1360-1385 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1989849167
- Cited by
- 1,176
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Plant Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Keywords
- fire adaptation, fire regimes, plant evolution, resprouting, serotiny, exaptation, Mesozoic fossils, fire frequency, land plant evolution
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Biological Evolution, Fires, Hot Temperature, Plants, Seeds, Ecosystem, Plant Physiological Phenomena, Germination, Plant Development
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