Jacob Hopkins

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jacob Hopkins |Alison Bennett |Thomas McKenna

1 Introduction Fire is a common ecological disturbance that structures many terrestrial ecosystems and drives long-term evolutionary patterns in biological communities (Archibald et al. 2013; McLauchlan et al. 2020). Fire effects on above and belowground ecosystem components can be quite heterogeneous (Whelan 1995; Neary and Leonard 2020; Zhang et al. 2021).

May 10, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jacob Hopkins |Neil Jones |Tatiana A Semenova-Nelsen |Jean M Huffman

AbstractForty percent of terrestrial ecosystems require recurrent fires engineered by feedbacks between fire and plant fuels. Fuel loads control fire intensity which alters soil nutrients and shapes soil microbial and plant community responses to fire. Changes to post-fire plant fuel production are well known to feed back to future fires, but post-fire decomposition of new fuels is poorly understood.