Fire is a key ecosystem process in tropical and subtropical savannas, with a varying role that
depends on hydroclimate but also on feedbacks between fire and vegetation. In savannas …

Fire is an important disturbance mechanism that can alter ecosystems and catalyze
vegetation changes. Paleofire records provide a means of inferring how ecosystems will be …

Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced via incomplete combustion of organics,
convey signatures of vegetation burned in the geologic past. New and published burn …

Recent developments in morphological and morphometric analyses of charcoal particles
have improved our ability to discern characteristics of burnt plant fuel and interpret fire-type …

We review palaeoenvironmental proxies and combinations of these relevant for
understanding hunter-gatherer niche construction activities in pre-agricultural Europe. Our …

The analysis of charcoal fragments in peat and lake sediments is the most widely used
approach to reconstruct past biomass burning. With a few exceptions, this method typically …

Fires in Africa account for more than half of global fire-carbon emissions but the long-term
evolution of fire activity and its link to global climate change remains elusive. Paleofire …

Although lacustrine sedimentary charcoal has long been used to infer paleofires, their
quantitative reconstructions require improvements of the calibration of their links with fire …

In this study, a long-term relationship amongst wildfire, vegetation, climate, and human in the
central Taiwan region, spanning from 17.3 to 2.0 cal kyr BP, is explored. To investigate this …