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Long-term fire frequency not linked to prehistoric occupations in northern Swedish boreal forest

Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007

Long-term fire frequency not linked to prehistoric occupations in northern Swedish boreal forest

Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007

Native American fire patterns in Yosemite Valley: a cross-disciplinary study

Gassaway
The inability to distinguish between human-caused and lightning ignitions in fire-history studies has led to three major problems: 1) a basic assumption that all pre-Euro-American settlement fire regimes are ''natural'' unless findings are aberrant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007

As Earth's testimonies tell': wilderness conservation in a changing world

Gillson, Willis
Too often, wilderness conservation ignores a temporal perspective greater than the past 50 years, yet a long-term perspective (centuries to millennia) reveals the dynamic nature of many ecosystems. Analysis of fossil pollen, charcoal and stable…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Earliest signs of human-controlled fire uncovered in Israel

Balter
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Type: Document
Year: 2004

Evidence of hominin control of fire at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Goren-Inbar, Alperson, Kislev, Simchoni, Melamed, BenNun, Werker
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Type: Document
Year: 2004

Old-growth wooded pasture in the Ozarks

Jutnry, Stahle
Forests in the Ozarks are ancient: the dominance and density of their various arboreal and herbaceous species have fluctuated over time in relation to climatic change and cultural influences. This study examines the nature of the pre-European forest…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Permanent vs. shifting cultivation in the eastern woodlands of North America prior to European contact

Doolittle
Native food production in the Eastern Woodlands of North America before, and at the time of, European contact has been described by several writers as 'slash-and-burn agriculture,' 'shifting cultivation,' amd even 'swidden.' Select quotes from…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Subalpine vegetation dynamics in the southern French Alps during the Holocene: evidence from plant imprints and charcoal preserved in travertine sequences

Ali, Roiron, Guendon, Terral
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Type: Document
Year: 2004

The evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel as affected by fire, grazing, and human activities

Naveh, Carmel
The early evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel, with special reference to Mt. Carmel, is described with a holistic landscape-ecological systems approach as the coevolution of the paleolithic food gatherer-hunter and his…
Type: Document
Year: 2004