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  • Conservation Biology

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  • Fire regimes are a significant evolutionary force in terrestrial ecosystems.
  • Changing fire patterns may accelerate adaptive evolution in wild populations.

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  • To explore the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive evolution in animals.
  • To highlight the influence of fire on evolutionary processes and conservation.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on fire regimes and animal evolution.
  • Analysis of how fire influences selection, gene flow, and genetic drift.
  • Identification of research needs for understanding fire-adapted phenotypes.

Main Results:

  • Fire drives diverse evolutionary selection modes (stabilizing, directional, disruptive, fluctuating).
  • Fire significantly impacts gene flow and genetic drift dynamics.
  • Rapid adaptive evolution in response to fire is plausible in the Pyrocene.

Conclusions:

  • Further research is needed to develop generalizable hypotheses and link fire-adapted traits to genetic underpinnings.
  • Studying highly responsive taxa is crucial for advancing the field.
  • Understanding evolutionary responses to fire can enhance conservation strategies for resilience in the Pyrocene.