Fig. 3: Early season fires increase post-fire reproduction relative to late season fires.
From: Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality
Results of subgroup meta-analysis investigating the effects of climate type, plant functional group and vegetation type for comparisons of a recruitment and b survival between early and late season fires. Modelled mean effects and 95% confidence intervals around the mean presented. Negative Hedges’ g-values represent increased effects of late season fires relative to early season fires. Positive Hedges’ g-values represent increased effects of early season fires relative to late season fires, coloured points represent studies within 95% CI of pooled effect size estimate and non-coloured points have been identified as outliers and excluded from analysis. N represents the sample size in each of the subgroup comparisons, numbers within parenthesis adjacent to N numbers indicate number of outliers that were identified within each analysis. Bold text indicates subgroups with significant effects. Comparison sample size for reproduction was too small (<3) and therefore was not included in this subgroup analysis. Studies where species responses were reported without reporting response traits we characterised as “unspecified”.
