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Nanavati
Although a wealth of research documents the interactions between climate, land use, vegetation, and fire in the Ozarks over the last 300 years, little is known about these interactions at longer timescales. Here, the Holocene vegetation and fire…
Type: Media
Year: 2020
Oswald, Foster, Shuman, Chilton, Doucette, Duranleau
An increasingly accepted paradigm in conservation attributes valued modern ecological conditions to past human activities. Disturbances, including prescribed fire, are therefore used by land managers to impede forest development in many potentially…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Tsakiridou, Hardiman, Grant, Lincoln, Cunningham
Charcoal records are now widely used to reconstruct past burning activity as there is an increasing global interest in understanding the complex interactions between fire, climate, vegetation and human activity. However, this topic has been…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Tan, Wu, Han, Zhang, Mao, Li, Liu, Su, Yan
Disentangling the role of natural and anthropogenic factors is a major challenge in paleofire studies. Here, we introduce the molecular biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs), combined with charcoal and black carbon in sediments of…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Mooney, Hope, Horne, Kamminga, Williams
In Australia, the drivers of precolonial fire regimes remain contentious, with some advocating an anthropogenic-dominated regime, and others highlighting the importance of climate, climatic variability or alternatively some nexus between climate and…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Varela, Vlachogiannis, Sfetsos, Politi, Karozis
This work introduces a methodology for assessing near-future fire weather pattern changes based on the Canadian Fire Weather Index system components (Fire Weather Index (FWI), Initial Spread Index (ISI), Fire Severity Rating (FSR)), applied in…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
McWethy, Alt, Argiriadis, Battistel, Everett, Pederson
Warm summer temperatures and longer fire seasons are promoting larger, and in some cases, more fires that are severe in low- and mid-elevation, dry mixed-conifer forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM). Long-term historical fire conditions and…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Klimaszewski-Patterson, Mensing
Context
Though people have used fire to alter landscapes across North America for millennia, there remains a debate whether Native Americans altered California’s mountainous forests to create an anthropogenic landscape.
Objective
We use…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Hessburg, Agee
Fire was arguably the most important forest and rangeland disturbance process in the Inland Northwest United States for millennia. Prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, fire regimes ranged from high severity with return intervals of one to five…
Type: Document
Year: 2003
Lepofsky, Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Schaepe, Mierendorf
The recent encroachment of woody species threatening many western North American meadows has been attributed to diverse factors. We used a suite of methods in Chittenden Meadow, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to identify the human,…
Type: Document
Year: 2003