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Fire as a global disturbance has acted across millions of years to shape terrestrial biomes. It has shaped the evolution of plants in concert with other disturbances and shape flora as we know it today. Increased global fire activity has posed the question to managers of how best to manipulate fire regimes to benefit people and biodiversity. Cultural burning is a form of prescribed burning undertaken by Indigenous people for a variety of reasons (often frequently at low intensities) promoting th...

Abstract Premise of research. Worldwide, fire-sensitive shrubs have an important but underresearched life history, and in Australia they are threatened by anthropogenic changes to fire regimes and habitat loss. Typically, adults are killed by fire, but they can also senesce and die if interfire intervals are prolonged. Populations can regenerate from seed banks displaying fire-stimulated germination; however, populations are ephemeral, and true population sizes and connectedness are difficult t...