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A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

Pausas, Juli G., Keeley, Jon E.·2009·BioScience

DOI 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.10

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Ecologists, biogeographers, and paleobotanists have long thought that climate and soils controlled the distribution of ecosystems, with the role of fire getting only limited appreciation. Here we review evidence from different disciplines demonstrating that wildfire appeared concomitant with the origin of terrestrial plants and played an important role throughout the history of life. The importance of fire has waxed and waned in association with changes in climate and paleoatmospheric conditions. Well before the emergence of humans on Earth, fire played a key role in the origins of plant adaptations as well as in the distribution of ecosystems. Humans initiated a new stage in ecosystem fire, using it to make the Earth more suited to their lifestyle. However, as human populations have expanded their use of fire, their actions have come to dominate some ecosystems and change natural processes in ways that threaten the sustainability of some landscapes.

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Authors: Pausas, J. G., & Keeley, J. E.
ORCID: Pausas, Juli G.
Keeley, Jon E.
Venue: BioScience
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2009-07
Volume: 59
Issue: 7
Pages: 593-601
ISSN: 0006-3568 (ISSN-L)
1525-3244
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.10
OpenAlex: W2108403435
Cited by: 1,226
References: 66
Citations by year: 2026: 88 · 2025: 97 · 2024: 107 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 89 · 2021: 76 · 2020: 78 · 2019: 73 · 2018: 73 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 60 · 2015: 62 · 2014: 48 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 50
FWCI: 37.96
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: BioScience (publishedVersion)
BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Generalitat Valenciana
Universitat de València
U.S. Geological Survey
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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, forest fires, history of life, ecosystem distribution, paleoclimate, paleoatmosphere, fire use, anthropogenic fire, landscape sustainability, biogeography

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