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jgpausas, 10 months ago to plants

Who was the first researcher that looked at #fire as an #evolutionary process?
In #plants and in #animals
Hint: it wasn't #Darwin, sorry!

Evolutionary fire ecology: an historical account & future directions https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad059/7238546 #BioScience

We may have missed some women & non-English speakers; their invisibility is a long-standing problem. If so, we would appreciate feedback on such omissions

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cneff, 10 months ago

Hello Juli at least you have forgot Georges Kuhnholtz – Lordat, who wrote "La Terre incendiée" in 1938, some years ago i wrote a little blogpost in my paysages blog about him (in French), "https://cneffpaysages.blog/2010/06/27/georges-kuhnholtz-lordat-sur-wikipediafr/ and perhaps also André Aubréville Climats, forêts et désertification de l'Afrique tropicale written in 1949
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cneff, 10 months ago

and of course Louis Trabaud, who wrote his thesis"mpact biologique et écologique des feux de végétation sur l'organisation, la structure et l'évolution de la végétation des zones de garrigues du Bas-Languedoc" about wildfire and Cistus monspeliensis/Quercus ilex adaption to fire, - and of course you know him, see https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2017/06/
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cneff, 10 months ago

Louis Trabaud, was one of the advisers of my masterthesis written in 1993 about wildfire risks in the garrigues the Nîmes, see also here https://cneffpaysages.blog/2018/08/07/pyrotragedies-a-critical-retrospective-on-the-wildfire-situation-in-europe-during-july-2018/
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cneff, 10 months ago

why were these scientists, doing such groundbreaking work for fire ecology, not mentioned in this review article ? because the articles/works were written in French, - or because they are not available in "standard literature databases" ? Or other "causes" ?
(4 part end of my comment/question to Juli Pausas post)
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