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Boom means bust: interactions between the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), rainfall and the processes threatening mammal species in arid Australia

Letnic, Dickman
We collated an environmental history for a 8580 km2 study area in the Simpson Desert, Australia. Quantitative and qualitative data on climate, land-use, fire history and ecosystem dynamics were used to construct a chronology of processes threatening…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Effects of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on local vegetation in a non-uniform glacio-isostatic land uplift area, northern Sweden

Hornberg, Bohlin, Hellberg, Bergman, Zackrisson, Olofsson, Wallin, Påsse
The oldest early Mesolithic settlements found so far (i.e. 8600 B.P.) in the interior of northern Sweden, in the province of Norrbotten, have been discovered through the application of a model simulating glacio-isostatic land uplift. The objective…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Evaluating the purpose, extent, and ecological restoration applications of indigenous burning practices in southwestern Washington

Storm, Shebitz
Understanding the historic fire regime is essential before restoring fire to an ecosystem. Historical ecology provides a means to use both quantitative and qualitative data from different disciplines to address questions about how the traditional…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Mid-holocene environmental change at Black Ridge Brook, Dartmoor, SW England: a new appraisal based on fungal spore analysis

Blackford, Innes, Hatton, Caseldine
Black Ridge Brook is an upland peat site in a high rainfall area of SW England. Pollen evidence has shown that it was once wooded, with Betula and Corylus dominant, before periods of change to more open ground and the spread of mire vegetation.…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Native American influences on the forest composition of the Allegheny Plateau, northwest Pennsylvania

Black, Ruffner, Abrams
We integrate witness tree distribution, Native American archaeological sites, and geological and topographic variables to investigate the relationships between Native American populations and pre-European settlement forest types on the Allegheny…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Nonwilderness wildland fire use is born on Kaibab National Forest

Mills
From the text ... 'We saw how fire suppression efforts often did more damage than the fire itself -- as we also questioned the high costs of aggressive fire suppression.... Wven some members of the wildland fire management community found it…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Prehistoric alteration of soil in the lower Rhine Basin, Northwest Germany -- archaeological, 14C and geochemical evidence

Gerlach, Baumewerd-Schmidt, van den Borg, Eckmeier, Schmidt
In Early Holocene, Chernozems were assumed to have covered the entire loess landscape of the Lower Rhine basin -- today mirrored by the distribution of Luvic Phaeozems. These Luvic Phaeozems have characteristic dark brown (Bht) horizons accumulating…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Understanding the evidence for historical fire across eastern forests

Ruffner
Evidence for historical fire across the eastern deciduous biome spans several fields, including paleoecology, fire scar analysis, witness tree studies, historical documents and ethnographic sources. In this paper I provide an overview of many of…
Type: Document
Year: 2006