Citation

Gross M. Curr. Biol. 2015; 25(16): R693-6.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26516637

Abstract

Catastrophic wildfires have become more frequent in the last few decades. The standard depiction in the media of fires as a disaster that has to be avoided and stopped at all cost fails to do justice to a more complex ecological balance of destruction and new growth. The emerging discipline of pyrogeography aims to gain a holistic understanding of the role that fire plays in nature and the ways in which we can manage it sustainably. Michael Gross reports.

Language: en