Global biomass burning: a synthesis and review of Holocene paleofire records and their controls

JR Marlon, PJ Bartlein, AL Daniau, SP Harrison… - Quaternary Science …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
We synthesize existing sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct Holocene fire history at
regional, continental and global scales. The reconstructions are compared with the two …

Risks of mining to salmonid-bearing watersheds

CJ Sergeant, EK Sexton, JW Moore, AR Westwood… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Mining provides resources for people but can pose risks to ecosystems that support cultural
keystone species. Our synthesis reviews relevant aspects of mining operations, describes …

Considering indigenous peoples and local communities in governance of the global ocean commons

MK Vierros, AL Harrison, MR Sloat, GO Crespo… - Marine Policy, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nations are currently negotiating a new international legally-binding
instrument to govern the global ocean commons, a vast area beyond national jurisdiction …

Ancient clam gardens increased shellfish production: adaptive strategies from the past can inform food security today

AS Groesbeck, K Rowell, D Lepofsky, AK Salomon - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central
challenges of our time, yet, it has been for millennia. Ancient clam gardens, intertidal rock …

Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates

WC Carleton, HS Groucutt - The Holocene, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Radiocarbon-date assemblages are commonly used as proxies for past human and
environmental phenomena. Prominent examples of target phenomena include past …

Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records

DG Gavin, DJ Hallett, FS Hu… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Millennial‐scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem
management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range …

Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

J Jackley, L Gardner, AF Djunaedi, AK Salomon - Ecology and Society, 2016‏ - JSTOR
Indigenous communities have actively managed their environments for millennia using a
diversity of resource use and conservation strategies. Clam gardens, ancient rock-walled …

Global fire history of grassland biomes

BA Leys, JR Marlon, C Umbanhowar… - Ecology and …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low
elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely …

Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene

J Marlon, PJ Bartlein, C Whitlock - The Holocene, 2006‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Variations in fire regimes can be inferred from changes in the abundance of sedimentary
charcoal found in lake and bog sediments. When analysed with pollen data, inferences can …

Rethinking the study of landscape management practices among hunter-gatherers in North America

KG Lightfoot, RQ Cuthrell, CJ Striplen… - American …, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
There has been little movement to systematically incorporate the study of indigenous
landscape management practices into the method and theory of hunter-gatherer research in …