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Indigenous fire-managed landscapes in southeast Australia during the holocene-new insights from the Furneaux Group Islands, Bass Strait

Adeleye, Haberle, Connor, Stevenson, Bowman
Indigenous land use and climate have shaped fire regimes in southeast Australia during the Holocene, although their relative influence remains unclear. The archaeologically attested mid-Holocene decline in land-use intensity on the Furneaux Group…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA

Carter, Brunelle, Power, DeRose, Bekker, Hart, Brewer, Spangler, Robinson, Abbott, Maezumi, Codding
Climatic conditions exert an important influence on wildfire activity in the western United States; however, Indigenous farming activity may have also shaped the local fire regimes for millennia. The Fish Lake Plateau is located on the Great Basin–…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

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

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

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

Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis

Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the…
Type: Document
Year: 2004