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The framework emphasizes feedbacks among fire regimes, biodiversity, and ecological processes such as nutrient cycling, soil development, plant regeneration and community dynamics, herbivory, and predation. Humans shape pyrodiversity through changing fire intensity, severity, frequency, and extent, as well as through hunting, husbandry, and plant introductions. 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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20150169 .  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0169](http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0169)  \nAccepted: 5 February 2016  \nOne contribution of 24 to a discussion meeting issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.  \nSubject Areas: ecology  \nKeywords:  \nanthropogenic burning, ecosystem engineer, feedbacks, landscape fire, pyrogeography, trophic interactions  \nAuthor for correspondence: David M. J. S. Bowman  \ne-mail: [david.bowman@utas.edu.au](david.bowman@utas.edu.au)  \nElectronic supplementary material is available at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0169](http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0169) or  \nvia [http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org](http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org).  \nPyrodiversity is the coupling of  \nbiodiversity and fire regimes in food webs  \nDavid M. J. S. Bowman1, George L. W. Perry2, Steve I. Higgins3, Chris N. Johnson1, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf4 and Brett P. Murphy5  \n1School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2School of Environment, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand  \n3Department of Botany, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand  \n4Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA 5Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia  \n DMJSB, 0000-0001-8075-124X; GLWP, 0000-0001-9672-9135; BPM, 0000-0002-8230-3069  \nFire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient cycling and soil development, plant regeneration and growth, plant community assembly and dynamics, herbivory and predation. Thus we argue that rather than merely describing spatio-temporal patterns of fire regimes, pyrodiversity must be understood in terms of feedbacks between fire regimes, biodiversity and ecological processes. Humans shape pyrodiversity both directly, by manipulating the intensity, severity, frequency and extent of fires, and indirectly, by influencing the abundance and distribution of various trophic guilds through hunting and husbandry of animals, and introduction and cultivation of plant species. Conceptualizing landscape fire as deeply embedded in food webs suggests that the restoration of degraded ecosystems requires the simultaneous careful management of fire regimes and native and invasive plants and animals, and may include introducing new vertebrates to compensate for extinctions that occurred in the recent and more distant past.  \nThis article is part of the themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.  \n1. Introduction  \nHuman manipulation of landscape fires, whether deliberate or accidental, is a powerful ecological force that can influence the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services, and positively or negatively affect the risk of economically disruptive fires. Nonetheless, there remains substantial discussion and disagreement among fire managers, ecologists and conservation biologists over how best to achieve ecologically and economically sustainable fire management. This debate reflects the myriad competing objectives of fire management and the social values that influence them, combined with the complexity and uncertainties inherent in fire ecology. An example of these issues and concerns is the ‘pyrodiversity begets biodiversity’ hypothesis [1]—the idea that humans can promote biodiversity through the manipulation of the spatio-temporal component of fire regimes.  \nMartin & Sapsis [1] first introduced the term ‘pyrodiversity’ in their explorati","cbCaibG715qpXXHK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibG715qpXXHK","pdf",843257,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Pyrodiversity as feedback between fire regimes and biodiversity\n## Humans as drivers of pyrodiversity\n## Rationale for coordinated ecosystem restoration","[{\"question\":\"What does pyrodiversity mean in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"Pyrodiversity is defined as the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes within food webs, where fire dynamics interact with ecological processes across trophic levels.\"},{\"question\":\"How do fire regimes influence food webs?\",\"answer\":\"Fire can affect food webs in both positive and negative ways, reinforcing fire regimes through mechanisms such as nutrient cycling, soil development, plant regeneration, herbivory, and predation.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue that restoration needs coordinated management?\",\"answer\":\"Because landscape fire is embedded in food webs, restoring degraded ecosystems requires careful, simultaneous management of fire regimes and the native and invasive plants and animals involved, with possible compensation for past extinctions.\"}]","Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs - Part of themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’ | PDF",28]