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6000 years of forest dynamics in Suserup Skov, a seminatural Danish woodland

Hannon, Bradshaw, Emborg
1 The history of a forest stand over the last 6000 years has been reconstructed by studying pollen, macrofossils and charcoal from a small, wet hollow in Suserup Skov on the island of Sjaelland in eastern Denmark. 2 The earliest recorded forest was…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Fire on the edge: prehistoric fire along the escarpment zone of the Cumberland Plateau

Ison
Unlike many areas of the United States, anthropogenic fires are the prime agent for affecting changes in plant and animal species composition in the southern Appalachian Highlands. Although the extensive use of fire by the American Indians has been…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Ontario Ministry of natural resources south-central region bobwhite quail rehabilitation program [abstract]

Hunter, Ludolph
Archaeological and historical evidence on status of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in southern Ontario prior to European settlement is not clear. The bird was documented on the Essex and Kent County prairies at the time of European…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Pattern and process in south Swedish forests during the last 3000 years, sensed at stand and regional scales

Lindbladh, Bradshaw, Holmqvist
1. Two palaeoecological data sets were used to study forest development in the boreo-nemoral zone of southern Sweden during the last 3000 years. Maps of forest types present in 1250 B, AD 500 and today were compiled from regional pollen data and…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Wildland burning by American Indians in Virginia [including: The forest primeval; Sources of evidence for Indian fire use; American Indians and colonists in Virginia; and Did fire keep beech out of the canopy?]

Brown
From the text ... 'One of the first things that the English discovered about American Indians in Virginia was that they burned their wildlands. ...Four purposes for burning--agriculture, hunting, range management, and travel--would probably have…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Holocene vegetation, fire and environmental history of the Discovery Bay region, south-western Victoria

Head
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Type: Document
Year: 1988

Human disturbance of North American forests and grasslands: the fossil pollen record

McAndrews
Excerpt
Type: Document
Year: 1988

Indian fires in the prehistory of New England

Patterson, Sassaman
[no description entered]
Type: Document
Year: 1988

Let it burn? Restoring fire in large wilderness preserves in the Rocky Mountains [abstract]

Romme, Despain
Large wilderness areas in National Parks and Forests offer some of our best opportunities for restoring natural disturbance regimes. High intensity fires, for example, can be permitted to burn with minimal interference. Yet even in large wilderness…
Type: Document
Year: 1988

Quaternary landscape ecology: relevant scales in space and time

Delcourt, Delcourt
Two primary goals of landscape ecologists are to (1) evaluate changes in ecological pattern and process on natural landscapes through time and (2) determine the ecological consequences of transforming natural landscapes to cultural ones.…
Type: Document
Year: 1988