Extinction (optical mineralogy)

Environmental resource management

Ecosystem

Anthropocene

Biodiversity

Climate change

Paleontology

Archaeology

Habitat

Ecology

Fire ecology

Geography

Natural (archaeology)

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Environmental science

Biology

Fire regime

Science

Fire's growing impacts on ecosystems Fire has played a prominent role in the evolution of biodiversity and is a natural factor shaping many ecological communities. However, the incidence of fire has been exacerbated by human activity, and this is now affecting ecosystems and habitats that have never been fire prone or fire adapted. Kelly et al. review how such changes are already threatening species with extinction and transforming terrestrial ecosystems and discuss the trends causing changes in fire regimes. They also consider actions that could be taken by conservationists and policy-makers to help sustain biodiversity in a time of changing fire activity. Science , this issue p. eabb0355

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene