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Climate and Land Use Effects on Holocene Era Vegetation and Fire History of the Ozarks

Nanavati
Although a wealth of research documents the interactions between climate, land use, vegetation, and fire in the Ozarks over the last 300 years, little is known about these interactions at longer timescales. Here, the Holocene vegetation and fire…
Type: Media
Year: 2020

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

Fire suppression impacts on fuels and fire intensity in the western U.S.: insights from archaeological luminescence dating in northern New Mexico

Roos, Rittenour, Swetnam, Loehman, Hollenback, Liebmann, Rosenstein
Here, we show that the last century of fire suppression in the western U.S. has resulted in fire intensities that are unique over more than 900 years of record in ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa). Specifically, we use the heat-sensitive…
Type: Document
Year: 2020