Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

Key past publications from our Team

• Diverse wildfire impacts on river flows across the globe

  Nature Communications Earth & Environment

  Grillakis, M. and Voulgarakis, A. (2025)

• Biomass burning smoke pollution stimulates painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui L.) to increase flight speed

  Environmental Pollution

  Liu, Y., Grosvenor, M.J., Wooster, M.J., Main, B., Yan, S., Francis, R. and Venter, E. (2025)

• The spatial distribution and temporal drivers of changing global fire regimes: A coupled socio-ecological modeling approach

  Earth's Future

  Perkins, O., Kasoar, M., Voulgarakis, A., Edwards, T., Haas, O. and Millington, J.D.A. (2025)

• The use of fire to preserve biodiversity under novel fire regimes

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

  Puig-Gironès, R., Palmero-Iniesta, M., Fernandes, P.M., Oliveras Menor, I., Ascoli, D., Kelly, L.T., Charles-Dominque, T., Regos, A., Harrison, S., Armenteras, D., Brotons, L., de-Miguel, S., Spandoni, G.L., Carmenta, R., Machado, M., Cardil, A., Santos, X., Erdozain, M., Canaleta, G., Berlinck, C.N., Vilalta-Clapés, Q., Mouillot, F., Salis, M, Verdinelli, M., Bacciu, V. and Pons., P. (2025)

• Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

  Harrison, S.P., Haas, O., Bartlein, P.J., Sweeney, L. and Xhang, G. (2025)
• Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

  Little, K., Rayanne, V., Belcher, C.M., Kettridge, N. Pellegrini, A.F.A., Ford, A.E.S., Smith, A.M.S., Elliott, A., Voulgarakis, A., Stoof, C.R., Kolden, C.A., Schwilk, D.W., Kennedy, E.B., Newman Thacker, F.E., Millin-Chalabi, G.R., Clay, G.D., Morison, J.I., McCarty, J.L, Ivison, K., Tansey, K., Simpson, K. J., Jones, M. W., Mack, M.C., Fulé, P.Z., Gazzard, R., Harrison, S.P., Nee, S., Page, S.E., Hall, T.E., Brown, T. Jolly, W.M. and Doerr, S. (2025)

• A global expert elicitation on present-day human–fire interactions

  Philosophical Transactions B

  Smith, C., Perkins, O., Mistry, J., Bilbao, B.A., Bliege Bird, R., Cardinal Christianson, A., De Freitas, K.M., Dressler, W., Ellis, E.C., Eloy, L. and Fowler, C. (2025)

• Present and future interannual variability in wildfire occurrence: a large ensemble application to the United States

  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

  Keeping, T.R., Zhou, B., Cai, W., Shepherd, T.G., Prentice, I.C., van der Wiel, K. and Harrison, S.P. (2025)

   

• Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

  Nature Communications Earth & Environment

  Oliveras Menor, I., Prat-Guitart, N., Spadoni, G.L et al including Harrison, S.P. (2025)

• A Pantropical Analysis of Fire Impacts and Post-Fire Species Recovery of Plant Life Forms

  Ecology and Evolution

  Sapkota, D.P, Edwards, D.P, Massam, M.R. and Evans, K.L. (2025)

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