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McCormack, Miller, McDonald
Background
Prescribed fire is a critical tool for building resilience to changing fire regimes. Policymakers can accelerate the development of effective, adaptation-oriented fire governance by learning from other jurisdictions.
Aims: We analyse…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Clarke, Cirulis, Borchers-Arriagada, Storey, Ooi, Haynes, Bradstock, Price, Penman
Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Colenbaugh, Hagan
Anthropogenic fire is generally accepted by contemporary foresters as shaping historical landscapes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the ancestral lands of the Cherokee people. However, the consensus on historical Cherokee cultural burning…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Donato, Halofsky, Churchill, Haugo, Cansler, Smith, Harvey
Wildfires and fire seasons are commonly rated largely on the simple metric of area burned (more hectares: bad). A seemingly paradoxical narrative frames large fire seasons as a symptom of a forest health problem (too much fire), while simultaneously…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Johnston, Schmidt, Merschel, Downing, Coughlan, Lewis
Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first annually resolved reconstructions of historical (1500-1900 ce) fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Constantine, Williams, Francke, Cadd, Forbes, Cohen, Zhu, Mooney
Ethnographic observations suggest that Indigenous peoples employed a distinct regime of frequent, low-intensity fires in the Australian landscape in the past. However, the timing of this behaviour and its ecological impact remain uncertain. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
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
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
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
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