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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): David M. J. S. Bowman
Publication Date: 2005

From the text ... 'Clearly, much remains to be done to bring fire to the same footing as climate variables as a factor driving biogeographic patterns and biogeochemical processes. Discovering the causes of the evolution of flammable vegetation is of great importance in understanding and managing landscapefire, particularly given the accelerating rate of global environmental change. Of prime interest are the effects of climatic variation, atmospheric CO2 concentrations and prehistoric anthropogenic fire use relative to the background rate of lightning ignitions.' © New Phytologist (2005).

Citation: Bowman, D. 2005. Understanding a flammable planet -- climate, fire and global vegetation patterns. New Phytologist, v. 165, no. 2, p. 341-345.

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  • biogeography
  • biogeography
  • carbon dioxide
  • evolution
  • evolution
  • fire frequency
  • fire management
  • fire resistant plants
  • fire tolerance
  • flammability
  • global ecology
  • global vegetation patterns
  • lightning caused fires
  • paleoecology
  • post fire recovery
  • prehistoric fires
  • remote sensing
  • vegetation surveys
  • wildfires
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