ECOFLAM

The Impact of Plant Evolution on Fire Behaviour in Ancient Ecosystems

 Coordinatore THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 1˙519˙640 €
 EC contributo 1˙519˙640 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2013-StG
 Funding Scheme ERC-SG
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-10-01   -   2018-09-30

 Partecipanti

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1    THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

 Organization address address: Northcote House, The Queen's Drive
city: EXETER
postcode: EX4 4QJ

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Claire Michelle
Cognome: Belcher
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1392 726474
Fax: +44 1392 726474

UK (EXETER) hostInstitution 1˙519˙640.00
2    THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

 Organization address address: Northcote House, The Queen's Drive
city: EXETER
postcode: EX4 4QJ

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Samantha
Cognome: Irish
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1392 722375
Fax: +44 1392 263676

UK (EXETER) hostInstitution 1˙519˙640.00

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life    variations    hypothesis    unable    evolutionary    first    fossil    gymnosperm    estimate    forests    palaeofire    ecoflam    ecosystem    wildfires    plant    fire    led    flammability    expansion    impact    severity   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Fire has played a key role in the evolutionary success of our species and has shaped the abundance of life that we see on our planet today. Wildfires have influenced the history of plant life for 410 million years where 5 key plant evolutionary events have occurred that led to variations in fire behaviour. Variations in fire behaviour determine a fire’s severity and its impact on an ecosystem. In order to assess palaeofire severity the heat delivered by a fire and the duration for which it remains at a site must be estimated. Currently we are unable to estimate palaeofire behaviour and are therefore unable to predict the ecological impact of palaeofires. ECOFLAM will change this by combining for the first time state-of-the-art flammability experiments with innovative modelling approaches to reconstruct variations in palaeofire behaviour due to plant innovations. ECOFLAM will establish relationships between plant traits that are measurable in the fossil record, and their flammability. It will construct simple metrics that can be applied to assess the nature of fires occurring in a fossil flora. Then using a frontier approach ECOFLAM will apply mathematical models to create the first ever estimates of palaeofire behaviour. ECOFLAM will: 1) estimate fire behaviour in Earth’s earliest forests, 2) assess the impact of the evolution of gymnosperm conifers on changes in fire regime and fire behaviour 3) test the hypothesis that early angiosperms utilised fire to invade and out compete gymnosperm forests, 4) test the hypothesis that expansion of neotropical forests led to suppression of fire and 5) track the ability of increases in grass fuel to enhance ecosystem flammability enabling expansion of the savanna biome. ECOFLAM will collaborate with an artist to visually express the relationship between fire and plants to bring fire science to the arts and public. Finally via an exciting link with Morgan Stanley, London ECOFLAM will explore the economic impact of wildfires.'

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