Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene

Gavin M Jones¹, Joshua F Goldberg², Taylor M Wilcox³, Lauren B Buckley⁴, Catherine L Parr⁵, Ethan B Linck⁶, Emily D Fountain⁷, Michael K Schwartz³

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¹ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA. Electronic address: gavin.jones@usda.gov.
² USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA.
³ National Genomics Center for Fish and Wildlife Conservation, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT 59801, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L3 5TR, UK; Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa; School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
⁷ Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

PMID: 37479555
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.003

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Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene

Gavin M Jones et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;38(11):1072-1084.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.003. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

Authors

Gavin M Jones¹, Joshua F Goldberg², Taylor M Wilcox³, Lauren B Buckley⁴, Catherine L Parr⁵, Ethan B Linck⁶, Emily D Fountain⁷, Michael K Schwartz³

Affiliations

¹ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA. Electronic address: gavin.jones@usda.gov.
² USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA.
³ National Genomics Center for Fish and Wildlife Conservation, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT 59801, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L3 5TR, UK; Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa; School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
⁷ Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

PMID: 37479555
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.003

Abstract

Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Fire drives multiple modes of evolutionary change, including stabilizing, directional, disruptive, and fluctuating selection, and can strongly influence gene flow and genetic drift. Ongoing and future research in fire-driven animal evolution will benefit from further development of generalizable hypotheses, studies conducted in highly responsive taxa, and linking fire-adapted phenotypes to their underlying genetic basis. A better understanding of evolutionary responses to fire has the potential to positively influence conservation strategies that embrace evolutionary resilience to fire in the Pyrocene.

Keywords: climate change; evolution; fire regimes; phenotypic plasticity; selection.

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