Exploring the Past to Better Understand the Future: Human Impacts on Fire - Past, Present, and Future part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
Changes in fire-regimes have dramatically altered ecosystem dynamics by shifting plant communities, creating opportunities for recruitment of new species, and restructuring land-surface processes and nutrient cycles. We set out to better understand the causes and consequences of fire in the past, present, and future in New Zealand, a landscape where widespread forest transitions followed human arrival.