Data and scripts from: "This is fine": form, function, and fire risk predict key dimensions of flammability in fire-adapted longleaf pine savanna

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(1) With fire frequency predicted to increase globally, a more refined understanding of flammability traits, and how they are impacted by demographic and environmental variables, will be critical to better predict species- and community-level fire outcomes. Pausas, Keeley, and Schwilk (2017) re-cently proposed a multidimensional species-level flammability framework comprising three strate-gies: non-flammable, fast-flammable and hot-flammable. However, empirical data are needed to validate this framework.
(2) We measured six flammability traits across 93 species from the fire-dependent longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem. We assess how traits are related to one another and investigate how fire risk, population fire response, and growth form predict species- and community-level flammability traits.
(3) Individuals and species were distributed continuously across two flammability axes (hot- and fast-flammable). We found that community-level flammability was not predicted by fire risk. However, complex interactions between fire risk, growth form, and population responses to fire predict-ed hot-flammability at the species level.
(4) Here, we identify two dimensions of variability in the traits that make up the multivariate syndrome of flammability in our system, providing support for the framework introduced by Pausas, Keeley, and Schwilk. ... [Read More]

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Simha, A., Coughlin, A., Anderson, S. M., DeLaMater, D., Thayer, E., Wong, R. J., Wright, J. P. (2023). Data and scripts from: "This is fine": form, function, and fire risk predict key dimensions of flammability in fire-adapted longleaf pine savanna. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4ww7k779

Creator: Anderson, Steven M.
Coughlin, Aeran
Thayer, Emily
Simha, Anita
DeLaMater, David
Wong, Richard J.
Wright, Justin P.
DOI: 10.7924/r4ww7k779
Subject: Flammability axes
Plant species
Growth form
Plant communities
Fire
Functional traits
Publication Date: July 17, 2023
ARK: ark:/87924/r4ww7k779
Affiliation: Biology
University Program in Ecology
Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership
Publisher: Duke Research Data Repository
Collection Dates: 2012-2014
Language: English
Type: Dataset
Format: R
CSV
Funding Agency: US Army Engineer Research Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Grant Number: Cooperative Agreement W9132T-11-2-0008
Contact: Anita Simha: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8770-3029, anitasimha@gmail.com
License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
Title: Data and scripts from: "This is fine": form, function, and fire risk predict key dimensions of flammability in fire-adapted longleaf pine savanna
License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Repository: Duke Research Data Repository

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