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Fire and Archaeology: working together to protect cultural resources during wildfire and prescribed fire

Land managers are challenged to protect cultural resources within the context of reintroducing fire on the landscape. Positive relationships and partnerships are essential to effective management.
Type: Media
Year: 2018

Indigenous impacts on North American Great Plains fire regimes of the past millennium

Roos, Zedeño, Hollenback, Erlick
Fire use has played an important role in human evolution and subsequent dispersals across the globe, yet the relative importance of human activity and climate on fire regimes is controversial. This is particularly true for historical fire regimes of…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Cloud forest dynamics in the Mexican neotropics during the last 1300 years

Figueroa-Rangel, Willis, Olvera-Vargas
Key questions for understanding the resilience and variability of Mexican Neotropical cloud forest assemblages in current and future climate change include: How have human disturbances and climate change affected the dynamics of the cloud forest…
Type: Document
Year: 2010

Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
Aim There remains some uncertainty concerning the causes of extinctions of Madagascar's megafauna. One hypothesis is that they were caused by over-hunting by humans. A second hypothesis is that their extinction was caused by both environmental…
Type: Document
Year: 2010