… The hominid fossil record suggests that cooked food may have appeared as early as 1.9
Ma (15), although reliable evidence for controlled fire use does not appear in the …

The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions — the lives and homes lost, the expense
of suppression and the damage to ecosystem services — necessitate a more sustainable …

Ecologists who specialize in translational ecology ( TE ) seek to link ecological knowledge
to decision making by integrating ecological science with the full complement of social …

Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire‐making species, but ‘natural’ (ie
independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires have …

Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic
process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future …

… Due to such spatially varying constraints over fire among regions and biomes (Krawchuk
and Moritz 2011), our results do not corroborate the notion that temperature will become the …

We used a database capturing large wildfires (> 405 ha) in the western US to document
regional trends in fire occurrence, total fire area, fire size, and day of year of ignition for 1984–…

Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past
three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, …

We provide an empirical, global test of the varying constraints hypothesis, which predicts
systematic heterogeneity in the relative importance of biomass resources to burn and …

Despite its widespread occurrence globally, wildfire preferentially occupies an environmental
middle ground and is significantly less prevalent in biomes characterized by environmental …