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Recent Publications
‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It
Linley, G. D., Jolly, C. J., Doherty, T. S., Geary, W. L., Armenteras, D., Belcher, C. M., Bliege Bird, R., Duane, A., Fletcher, M. S., Giorgis, M. A., Haslem, A., Jones, G. M., Kelly, L. T., Lee, C. K. F., Nolan, R. H., Parr, C. L., Pausas, J. G., Price, J. N., Regos, A. & Ritchie, E. G. & 4 others, , Apr 2025, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34, 4, e70032.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
A global expert elicitation on present-day human-fire interactions
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., Fowler, C., Haberle, S., Kaplan, J. O., Laris, P., Millington, J. & Monzón-Alvarado, C., Apr 17 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 380, 1924, 20230463.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Correction to: Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia (Nature Communications, (2024), 15, 1, (6019), 10.1038/s41467-024-50300-5)
Bliege Bird, R., Bird, D. W., Martine, C. T., McGuire, C., Greenwood, L., Taylor, D., Williams, T. M. & Veth, P. M., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 7938.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia
Bliege Bird, R., Bird, D. W., Martine, C. T., McGuire, C., Greenwood, L., Taylor, D., Williams, T. M. & Veth, P. M., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 6019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity
Greenwood, L., Bliege Bird, R., McGuire, C., Jadai, N., Price, J., Skroblin, A., van Leeuwen, S. & Nimmo, D., Mar 2024, In: Biological Conservation. 291, 110479.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation
McClenachan, L., Rick, T., Thurstan, R. H., Trant, A., Alagona, P. S., Alleway, H. K., Armstrong, C., Bird, R. B., Rubio-Cisneros, N. T., Clavero, M., Colonese, A. C., Cramer, K., Davis, A. O., Drew, J., Early-Capistrán, M. M., Gil-Romera, G., Grace, M., Hatch, M. B. A., Higgs, E. & Hoffman, K. & 19 others, , 2024, In: Endangered Species Research. 54, p. 285-310 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively? Ethnohistoric Data Reveal the Contexts, Advantages, and Evolutionary Importance of Communal Hunting
Morin, E., Bird, D., Winterhalder, B. & Bliege Bird, R., Oct 2024, In: Current anthropology. 65, 5, p. 876-921 46 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Promise and peril of ecological and evolutionary modelling using cross-cultural datasets
Bliege Bird, R. & Codding, B. F., Jan 2022, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 1, p. 6-8 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Indigenous burning shapes the structure of visible and invisible fire mosaics
Greenwood, L., Bliege Bird, R. & Nimmo, D., Mar 2022, In: Landscape Ecology. 37, 3, p. 811-827 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?
Linley, G. D., Jolly, C. J., Doherty, T. S., Geary, W. L., Armenteras, D., Belcher, C. M., Bliege Bird, R., Duane, A., Fletcher, M. S., Giorgis, M. A., Haslem, A., Jones, G. M., Kelly, L. T., Lee, C. K. F., Nolan, R. H., Parr, C. L., Pausas, J. G., Price, J. N., Regos, A. & Ritchie, E. G. & 4 others, , Oct 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 10, p. 1906-1922 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?
Morin, E., Bird, D., Winterhalder, B. & Bliege Bird, R., Jun 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 29, 2, p. 561-623 63 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cooperating to show that you care: Costly helping as an honest signal of fitness interdependence
Barclay, P., Bliege Bird, R., Roberts, G. & Számadó, S., 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1838, p. 429-431 3 p., 20200292.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis
Bliege Bird, R. & Bird, D. W., Jul 1 2021, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 33, 4, e23527.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Ellis, E. C., Gauthier, N., Goldewijk, K. K., Bird, R. B., Boivin, N., Díaz, S., Fuller, D. Q., Gill, J. L., Kaplan, J. O., Kingston, N., Locke, H., McMichael, C. N. H., Ranco, D., Rick, T. C., Rebecca Shaw, M., Stephens, L., Svenning, J. C. & Watson, J. E. M., Apr 27 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 17, e2023483118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?
Jones, J. H., Pisor, A. C., Douglass, K. G., Bird, R. B., Ready, E., Hazel, A., Hackman, J., Kramer, K. L., Kohler, T. A., Pontzer, H. & Towner, M. C., Jul 1 2021, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 33, 4, e23592.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review