article_snippet.sent: The experiments carried out in the laboratory showed that dry plant matter could ignite, but live plants including green pine branches, typically do not. '
article_snippet.sent: The experiments carried out in the laboratory carried out in the laboratory showed that dry plant matter could ignite, but live plants typically do not.
article_snippet.sent: Plants and animals are generally resistant to localised fire events - animals can hide or hibernate and plants can re-colonise from other areas, implying that wildfires are unlikely to be directly capable of leading to the extinctions.
article_snippet.sent: In addition, the methods we developed in the laboratory for this research have driven new developments in we current understanding of how materials behave in fires particularly at the wildland-urban-interface, meaning that we have been able to answer questions relating to both ancient mass extinctions at the same time as developing understanding of the impact of wildfires in urban areas today.'