Enric Batllori

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate global fire datasets and environmental covariates to build spatial statistical models of fire probability at a 0.5° resolution and examine environmental controls on fire activity.

TL;DR: A more coordinated approach to risk management and land-use planning in these coupled systems is needed because fire will never operate as a natural ecosystem process, and the impact on society will continue to grow.

TL;DR: In this paper, the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth is described, and the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts.

TL;DR: The results suggest that scarce availability of safe sites and uneven facilitation by krummholz control seedling recruitment patterns within alpine tree line Ecotones may distort or counter the response of tree line ecotones to climate warming at local and regional scales.

TL;DR: How changes in fire activity are threatening species with extinction across the globe are reviewed, forward-looking methods for predicting the combined effects of human drivers and fire on biodiversity are highlighted, and emerging actions and strategies that could revolutionize how society manages fire for biodiversity in the Anthropocene are foreshadowed.