Publications from the group

Baker, SJ* ..... Pellegrini AFA (2025) Spikes in UK wildfire emissions driven by peatland fires in dry years. Environmental Research Letters  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adafc6/meta *denotes postdoctoral researcher

Baur, MJ*, Friend,  AD, Pellegrini, AFA (2024) Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant-soil water relations. Nature Geoscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01563-6 *denotes graduate student

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2023) Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes. Nature Climate Change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01800-7

Pellegrini, AFA et al. (2023) Consistent physiological, ecological and evolutionary effects of fire regime on conservative leaf economics strategies in plant communities. Ecology Letters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14182 

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2022) Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage. Nature Geoscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00867-1

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2021) Low‐intensity frequent fires in coniferous forests transform soil organic matter in ways that may offset ecosystem carbon losses. Global Change Biology, doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15648 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15648

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2021). Disease and fire interact to influence transitions between savanna–forest ecosystems over a multi‐decadal experiment. Ecology Letters,  doi.org/10.1111/ele.13719 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13719

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2021). Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(4), 504-512 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01401-7

Pellegrini, AFA, et al. (2021) Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems. Ecological Monographs, doi.org 10.1002/ecm.1409 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecm.1409

Pellegrini, AFA, et al.. Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity. Nature, 2018, 553: 194-198. www.nature.com/articles/nature24668

Pellegrini, AFA, et al.. Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change. Ecology Letters, 2017, 20: 307-316onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12725/full