This profound interdependence has proved difficult to model, and traditional summaries of fire’s ecology point instead to fire’s effects on plants, animals, soil, air, water, and so on.

This debate is ongoing, but the dominant view of ecologists remains that consumers impact many aspects of plant ecology, but are not key drivers of the productivity of entire autotrophic ecosystems.

Research Interests: Plant, alpine and forest ecology; Plant-fungal symbioses; Soil ecology and nutrient cycling; Effects of climate change (early snowmelt, increased N deposition) on plant communities ...

The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Using advanced methods that integrate plant distributions with phylogenetic information -- meaning data about the evolutionary ...