

@article{archibald_what_2009,
	title = {What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa},
	volume = {15},
	issn = {13541013, 13652486},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01754.x},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01754.x},
	shorttitle = {What limits fire?},
	abstract = {The factors controlling the extent of ﬁre in Africa south of the equator were investigated using moderate resolution (500 m) satellite-derived burned area maps and spatial data on the environmental factors thought to affect burnt area. A random forest regression tree procedure was used to determine the relative importance of each factor in explaining the burned area fraction and to address hypotheses concerned with human and climatic inﬂuences on the drivers of burnt area. The model explained 68\% of the variance in burnt area. Tree cover, rainfall in the previous 2 years, and rainfall seasonality were the most important predictors. Human activities – represented by grazing, roads per unit area, population density, and cultivation fraction – were also shown to affect burnt area, but only in parts of the continent with speciﬁc climatic conditions, and often in ways counter to the prevailing wisdom that more human activity leads to more ﬁre. The analysis found no indication that ignitions were limiting total burnt area on the continent, and most of the spatial variation was due to variation in fuel load and moisture. Split conditions from the regression tree identiﬁed (i) low rainfall regions, where ﬁre is rare; (ii) regions where ﬁre is under human control; and (iii) higher rainfall regions where burnt area is determined by rainfall seasonality. This study provides insights into the physical, climatic, and human drivers of ﬁre and their relative importance across southern Africa, and represents the beginnings of a predictive framework for burnt area.},
	pages = {613--630},
	number = {3},
	journaltitle = {Global Change Biology},
	author = {Archibald, Sally and Roy, David P. and van {WILGEN}, Brian W. and Scholes, Robert J.},
	urldate = {2022-12-31},
	date = {2009-03},
	langid = {english},
	file = {What limits fire - An examination of burned area in Southern Africa.pdf:C\:\\Users\\scat8298\\OneDrive - Nexus365\\Documents\\carlota\\literature\\articles\\fires\\Archibald\\What limits fire - An examination of burned area in Southern Africa.pdf:application/pdf},
}


@article{archibald_defining_2013,
	title = {Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes},
	volume = {110},
	issn = {0027-8424, 1091-6490},
	url = {https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1211466110},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1211466110},
	abstract = {Fire is a ubiquitous component of the Earth system that is poorly understood. To date, a global-scale understanding of fire is largely limited to the annual extent of burning as detected by satellites. This is problematic because fire is multidimensional, and focus on a single metric belies its complexity and importance within the Earth system. To address this, we identified five key characteristics of fire regimes—size, frequency, intensity, season, and extent—and combined new and existing global datasets to represent each. We assessed how these global fire regime characteristics are related to patterns of climate, vegetation (biomes), and human activity. Cross-correlations demonstrate that only certain combinations of fire characteristics are possible, reflecting fundamental constraints in the types of fire regimes that can exist. A Bayesian clustering algorithm identified five global syndromes of fire regimes, or pyromes. Four pyromes represent distinctions between crown, litter, and grass-fueled fires, and the relationship of these to biomes and climate are not deterministic. Pyromes were partially discriminated on the basis of available moisture and rainfall seasonality. Human impacts also affected pyromes and are globally apparent as the driver of a fifth and unique pyrome that represents human-engineered modifications to fire characteristics. Differing biomes and climates may be represented within the same pyrome, implying that pathways of change in future fire regimes in response to changes in climate and human activity may be difficult to predict.},
	pages = {6442--6447},
	number = {16},
	journaltitle = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
	shortjournal = {Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.},
	author = {Archibald, Sally and Lehmann, Caroline E. R. and Gómez-Dans, Jose L. and Bradstock, Ross A.},
	urldate = {2023-02-13},
	date = {2013-04-16},
	langid = {english},
	file = {Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes - SI.pdf:C\:\\Users\\scat8298\\OneDrive - Nexus365\\Documents\\carlota\\literature\\articles\\fires\\regimes\\Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes - SI.pdf:application/pdf},
}



@article{Dantas2022TheBiomes,
    title = {{The legacy of the extinct Neotropical megafauna on plants and biomes}},
    year = {2022},
    journal = {Nature Communications},
    author = {Dantas, Vinicius L. and Pausas, Juli G.},
    number = {1},
    volume = {13},
    publisher = {Springer US},
    isbn = {4146702127},
    doi = {10.1038/s41467-021-27749-9}
}