The phrase "alteration of fire" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing changes or modifications related to fire, such as in safety regulations or fire management.
Example: "The alteration of fire safety protocols was necessary to ensure the protection of the building."
Alternatives: "change in fire" or "modification of fire".
Agriculturally induced transformation of Africa's unique set of functional herbivore guilds11, and the alteration of fire regimes12 may shift systems into tree-dominated states at the local scale.
However, at our research sites, most burning is done in the early spring and may not be possible in late spring due to Schedonorus arundinaceus (tall fescue) greenup and alteration of fire behavior (McGranahan et al. [2012]).
Moreover, a shift in precipitation pattern may have further consequences, such as the alteration of fire regimes, grass biomass production or woody plant carbon uptake.
This suggests that when odor cues are shuffled in space an alteration of firing patterns of place cells occurs.
Risk and liability concerns regarding fire affect people's attitudes toward fire and have led to human-induced alterations of fire regimes.
This alteration of natural fire regimes by the reduction in fire frequencies leads to changes in vegetation, especially to the loss of the native fire-resistant species.
We agree with Reviewer 2 that whole-cell recordings can be associated with significant alterations of firing.
Learning consists of the alteration of these firing probabilities over time in response to further sensory input.
This change may imply a climatically driven alteration of the established fire-regime promoted by fuel accumulation that portends major ecological consequences.
The weak 8 Hz protocol (30 pulses) induced an alteration of the neuronal firing only in a subset of the used animals.
Impaired reasoning following alteration of the subthalamic nucleus firing pattern by DBS stems from a failure to accrue information over time and is associated with an inappropriate speeding of the response when new information should conflict with an already prepared motor programme.
