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Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England

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

Evidence of wildfire in the British Isles during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: Revealing spatiotemporal patterns and controls

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

Fire history and human activity revealed through poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) records at archaeological sites in the middle reaches of the Yellow River drainage basin, China

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

Fire, humans and climate as drivers of environmental change on Broughton Island, New South Wales, Australia

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

Methodology for the study of near-future changes of fire weather patterns with emphasis on archaeological and protected touristic areas in Greece

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

Millennial-scale climate and human drivers of environmental change and fire activity in a dry, mixed-conifer forest of northwestern Montana

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

Paleoecological and paleolandscape modeling support for pre-Columbian burning by Native Americans in the Golden Trout Wilderness Area, California, USA

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

Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea

Mercuri, Florenzano, Terenziani, Furia, Dallai, Torri
The high-resolution Adriatic RF93-30 core shows changes in its microcharcoal record, which correlate to terrestrial fires from the last 7000 years. Pollen and microcharcoals were transported by wind and fluvial transport from the sedimentary basin,…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Toward a better understanding of climate and human impacts on late Holocene fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Walsh, Duke, Haydon
In order to fully appreciate the role that fire, both natural and anthropogenic, had in shaping pre-Euro-American settlement landscapes in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), it is necessary to develop a more robust method of evaluating paleofire…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Understanding climate and human impacts on historical fire regimes in the PNW

As fire is increasingly used as a restoration and management tool throughout the Pacific Northwest (PNW), it is important to understand the factors influencing historical fire regimes. For ecosystems with long histories of human activity, this…
Type: Document
Year: 2019