Fire-Proneness as a Prerequisite for the Evolution of Fire-Adapted Traits

Fire as a major evolutionary force has been disputed because it is considered to lack supporting evidence. If a trait has evolved in response to selection by fire then the environment of the plant must have been fire-prone before the appearance of that trait. Using outcomes of trait assignments appl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lamont, Byron, He, Tianhua
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130103029
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18644