Pushing back in time: The role of fire in plant evolution

New Phytologist

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-7

  Midgley, Jeremy ^a   Bond, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Banksia; Fire; Flammability; Molecular dating; Phylogeny; Proteaceae; Serotiny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLASSIFICATION; DROUGHT; EVOLUTION; FIRE; FOSSIL; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEACEAE; SEASON;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROUGHTS; FIRES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEACEAE; SEASONS;

BANKSIA; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 79957899774     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03760.x     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. Bond WJ, Midgley JJ. 1995. Kill thy neighbour: an individualistic argument for the evolution of flammability. Oikos 73: 79-85.
2. Bond WJ, Scott AC. 2010. Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous. New Phytologist 188: 1137-1150.
3. Bradshaw SD, Dixon KW, Hopper SD, Lambers H, Turner SR. 2011. Little evidence for fire-adapted plant traits in Mediterranean climate regions. Trends in Plant Science 16: 1365-1380.
4. Bytebier B, Antonelli A, Bellstedt DU, Linder HP. 2011. Estimating the age of fire in the Cape flora of South Africa from an orchid phylogeny. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 188-195.
5. Crisp MD, Burrows GE, Cook LG, Thornhill AH, Bowman DMJS. 2011. Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Nature Communications 2: 193. doi:
6. Glasspool IJ, Scott AC. 2010. Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen concentrations reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal. Nature Geoscience 3: 627-630.
7. He T, Lamont BB, Downes KS. 2011. Banksia born to burn. New Phytologist 191: 184-196.
8. Lamont BB, Witkowski ETF, Enright NJ. 1993. Postfire litter microsites: safe for seeds, unsafe for seedlings. Ecology 74: 501-512.
9. Rourke JP. 1980. Proteas of Southern Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Purnell.
10. Simon MF, Grether R, de Queiroz LP, Skema C, Pennington RT, Hughes CE. 2009. Recent assembly of the cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 20359-20364.
11. Valente LM, Reeves G, Schnitzler J, Pizer Mason I, Fay MF, Rebelo TG, Chase MW, Barraclough TG. 2010. Diversification of the African genus Protea (Proteaceae) in the Cape biodiversity hotspot and beyond: equal rates in different biomes. Evolution 64: 745-760.