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A framework for testing the influence of Aboriginal burning on grassy ecosystems in lowland, mesic south-eastern Australia

Foreman
The complex interactions among climate, soils, fire and humans in the biogeography of natural grasslands has long been debated in Australia. On the one hand, ecological models assume the primacy of climate and soils. On the other, Aboriginal burning…
Type: Document
Year: 2016

Arcburn: linking field-based and experimental methods to quantify, predict, and manage fire effects on cultural resources - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Loehman, Butler, Civitello, Constan, Dyer, Evans, Friggens, Kneifel, Reardon, Scheintaub, Steffen
Cultural resources are physical features, both natural and anthropogenic, associated with human activity. These unique and non-renewable resources include sites, structures, and objects possessing significance in history, architecture, archaeology,…
Type: Document
Year: 2016

Linking Field-Based and Experimental Methods to Quantify, Predict, and Manage Fire Effects on Cultural Resources

Loehman, Archer, Butler, Civitello, Dyer, Evans, Gauthier, Reardon, Steffen
Uncharacteristically severe wildfires can threaten cultural resources through direct effects that are obvious and immediate, such as destruction of structures; or that may be harder to recognize, such as thermal alteration of surface materials.…
Type: Project
Year: 2016

Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA

Swetnam, Farella, Roos, Liebmann, Falk, Allen
Interannual climate variations have been important drivers of wildfire occurrence in ponderosa pine forests across western North America for at least 400 years, but at finer scales of mountain ranges and landscapes human land uses sometimes over-…
Type: Document
Year: 2016

Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492-1900 CE

Liebmann, Farella, Roos, Stack, Martini, Swetnam
Native American populations declined between 1492 and 1900 CE, instigated by the European colonization of the Americas. However, the magnitude, tempo, and ecological effects of this depopulation remain the source of enduring debates. Recently,…
Type: Document
Year: 2016

The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process

Gowlett
Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2016

What is? BAER

Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) is an assessment intended to protect life, property, water quality, important archeological resources, and impacted ecosystems from further damage.
Type: Document
Year: 2016