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Klimaszewski-Patterson, Dingemans, Morgan, Mensing
Background: Understanding pre-1850s fire history and its effect on forest structure can provide insights useful for fire managers in developing plans to moderate fire hazards in the face of forecasted climate change. While climate clearly plays a…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Haring
The Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico suffered near total scorching during the Las Conchas Wildfire, a burn which drastically changed the environment and sediment stability of the canyon. After the fire, a 1% chance rain event exhibited a…
Type: Media
Year: 2024
Ortega-Becerril, Suarez, Vázquez-Tarrío, Garrote, Gomez-Heras
The 2021 Navalacruz wildfire occurred in a mountainous area in the Sistema Central (Spain). Despite having an average low severity index (dNBR), the loss of vegetation cover associated with the fire was responsible for a high rate of sedimentation…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Snitker, Roos, Sullivan, Maezumi, Bird, Coughlan, Derr, Gassaway, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Loehman
Humans have influenced global fire activity for millennia and will continue to do so into the future. Given the long-term interaction between humans and fire, we propose a collaborative research agenda linking archaeology and fire science that…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Sweeney, Harrison, Vander Linden
The relative importance of climate change and human activities in influencing regional fire regimes during the Holocene is still a matter of debate. The introduction of agriculture during the Neolithic provides an opportunity to examine the impact…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
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
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
Marchenko, Zhilich, Rybin, Nokhrina, Bazargur, Gunchinsuren, Olsen, Khatsenovich
This article examines the formation processes of combustion features at the Orkhon 7 Paleolithic site in central Mongolia, employing a new multifaceted approach that combines spatial analysis with computer learning and micro-charcoal analysis. We…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Davies, Power, Braun, Douglass, Mosher, Quick, Esteban, Sealy, Parkington, Faith
Globally, fire is a primary agent for modifying environments through the long-term coupling of human and natural systems. In southern Africa, control of fire by humans has been documented since the late Middle Pleistocene, though it is unclear when…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Abdolahzadeh, McPherron, Sandgathe, Schurr, Olszewski, Dibble
The primary focus of this paper is to examine the extent to which the pattern of Neandertal fire use in southwest France occurred at other times and places during the European Late Pleistocene. In previous studies, both direct and indirect data…
Type: Document
Year: 2022