Resilience of temperate peatland vegetation communities to wildfire depends upon burn severity and pre‐fire species composition

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. e9912 - n/a
• Main Authors: Davies, G. Matt, Gray, Alan, Power, Simon C., Domènech, Rut
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Acid deposition; Applied Ecology; Biodiversity; Botany; Calluna vulgaris; Carbon; Climate change; Community composition; Community Ecology; Composite Burn Index; Composition; Ecological function; Ecosystems; Energy consumption; Environmental management; Forest & brush fires; Functional groups; Global Change Ecology; heathland; Hydrologic regime; Hydrology; Land use; Livestock; Livestock grazing; Long-term effects; moorland; Organic soils; Peatlands; Plant communities; Plant diversity; Plants; Pollutant deposition; Population decline; Prescribed fire; Resilience; Restoration Ecology; Soil types; Soils; Species composition; Species diversity; Species richness; Vegetation; Wildfires; United Kingdom > UK; England; Scotland; species richness; Composite Burn Index; moorland; species diversity; Calluna vulgaris; heathland; species composition

Peatland ecosystems are of global conservation and environmental importance storing globally significant amounts of ancient carbon, regulating regional temperatures and hydrological regimes, and supporting unique biodiversity. Livestock grazing, land‐use change, drainage, nutrient and acid depositio...