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Forest degradation in the southwest Brazilian Amazon: impact on tree species of economic interest and traditional use

Costa, Fearnside, Oliveira, Anderson, Aragão, Almeida, Clemente, Nascimento, Souza, Karlokoski, Flores de Melo, Araújo, Souza, Lima de Alencastro Graça, Souza da Silva
Amazonian biodiversity has been used for generations by human populations, especially by Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in their cultural, social and economic practices. However, forest degradation, driven by forest fires, has…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Forest ecology and fire history of the mixed conifer forest belt in the Italian Alps from Late Roman fires to the 20th century under cultural and climate pressure

Furlanetto, Abu El Khair, Badino, Bertuletti, Comolli, Maggi, Perego, Ravazzi
We reconstructed vegetation, fire and watershed history during the Late Roman-Early Middle Ages and in the last three centuries in a mixed conifer forest forming the middle mountain elevational belt in the inner Alpine region, analyzing co-…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Forest landowner demand for prescribed fire as an ecological management tool in Pennsylvania, USA

Regmi, Kreye, Kreye
Prescribed burning is important for the ecological health of fire-dependent forests, however, there is little economic research examining landowner preferences for living with fire in the age of the Anthropocene. To understand the value of…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Homeowner firewise behaviors in fire-prone central Oregon: an exploration of the attitudinal, situational, and cultural worldviews impacting pre-fire mitigation actions

Wolters
As a result of climate change and past management practices, wildfires are becoming larger and occurring more frequently than ever before in the Western U.S. In order to mitigate the effects of this growing threat, fire management agencies such as…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?

Girona-García, Cretella, Fernández, Robichaud, Vieira, Keizer
Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Human activity and demographics drive the fire regime in a highly developed European boreal region

Sjöström, Granström
Organization of successful wildfire prevention and suppression require detailed information on ignition causes, size distributions and relations to weather. From a large and highly detailed dataset of Swedish wildfire incidents (n = 124 000) we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia

Harris, Taylor, Kassa, Leta, Powell
Background: Fire occurrence is influenced by interactions between human activity, climate, and fuels that are difficult to disentangle but crucial to understand, given fire’s role in carbon dynamics, deforestation, and habitat maintenance,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Indigenous use of fire in the paramo ecosystem of southern Ecuador: a case study using remote sensing methods and ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa Saraguro people

Díaz, Quezada, Álvarez, Loján-Córdova, Carrión-Paladines
Background: The Indigenous Kichwa Saraguro people of southern Ecuador have long relied on traditional burning to manage their environment. However, their traditional use of fire in one of the most important ecosystems in southern Ecuador, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Investigating the effect of oxidants on the quantification and characterization of charcoal in two southeast Australian sedimentary records

Constantine, Zhu, Cadd, Mooney
This study examined the effects of commonly used oxidants in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal analysis on two sediment cores from Thirlmere Lakes National Park, Southeast Australia. The cores, from Lake Werri Berri (WB3) and Lake Couridjah (LC2),…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Levoglucosan and its isomers in terrestrial sediment as a molecular markers provide direct evidence for the low-temperature fire during the mid-Holocene in the northern Shandong peninsula of China

Tan, Yuan, Gu, Han, Mao, Tan, Wu, Han
Black carbon and charcoal's limitation in detecting low-temperature fires could be a major obstacle in observing paleofire. To reconstruct a low-temperature fire pattern and vegetation changes in the Changyi in the northern Shandong Peninsula over…
Type: Document
Year: 2023