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Building resilient landscapes in a semi-arid watershed: anthropogenic and natural burning histories in Late Holocene Tesuque Creek, northern New Mexico

Damick, Krause, Rosen
As mega-fires have swept the North American West in recent decades, studies of past fire events have gained academic interest. Deep-time perspectives are necessary to better understand the periodicity of fire events and to identify basic drivers of…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance

Napier, Chipman
Motivation: Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate shifts, accumulating evidence suggests that disturbance could not only modify…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Predicting Wildfire Impacts on the Prehistoric Archaeological Record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Keane, Friggens, Loehman
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Megan Friggens and Rachel Loehman about results from their study that identified the environmental and climate variables that best predict observed fire severity and…
Type: Media
Year: 2022

The use of magnetic susceptibility as a technique to measure the impact of wildfires on archaeological heritage

Sanchez-Roda, Oliva-Urcia, Gomez-Heras
Wildfires are one of the main threats of natural areas and often fires can affect protected or heritage areas and properties, in which the preservation requirements demand the use of non-destructive techniques (NDTs). The magnetic susceptibility is…
Type: Document
Year: 2022