[HTML][HTML] Do small landforms have large effects? A review on the legacies of pre-industrial charcoal burning

T Raab, A Raab, A Bonhage, A Schneider, F Hirsch… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Relict charcoal hearths (RCHs) are small, anthropogenic landforms resulting from past
charcoal burning and reaching significant land coverage in pre-industrial mining areas. We …

Organo-mineral associations largely contribute to the stabilization of century-old pyrogenic organic matter in cropland soils

V Burgeon, J Fouché, J Leifeld, C Chenu, JT Cornélis - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the processes underlying carbon (C) stability in soils is of utmost importance
in the context of climate change. In this setting, biochar is often studied for its persistence in …

Human impacts on environment in the preindustrial forest landscapes in Poland—An overview

M Słowiński, T Związek, P Swoboda… - Elementa: Science of …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Quantification of human impact on past forest ecosystems becomes more challenging as
one goes deeper into the past. This is primarily due to a scarcity of appropriate source …

Automated large‐scale map** and analysis of relict charcoal hearths in Connecticut (USA) using a Deep Learning YOLOv4 framework

WV der Vaart, A Bonhage, A Schneider… - Archaeological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, numerous studies have successfully mapped thousands of former
charcoal production sites (also called relict charcoal hearths) manually using digital …

An initiative for a morphologic‐genetic catalog of relict charcoal hearths from Central Europe

F Hirsch, A Schneider, A Bonhage, A Raab… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing availability of high‐resolution topographic data, coupled with image analysis
and machine learning techniques, is rapidly changing the way archaeological sites are …

Vertical SOC distribution and aromatic carbon in centuries old charcoal‐rich Technosols

A Bonhage, T Raab, A Schneider… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Charcoal‐rich Technosols on century‐old relict charcoal hearths (RCHs) are the subject of
ongoing research regarding potential legacy effects that result from historic charcoal …

When computers dream of charcoal: Using deep learning, open tools, and open data to identify relict charcoal hearths in and around state game lands in …

BP Carter, JH Blackadar, WLA Conner - Advances in Archaeological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This research employs machine learning (Mask Region-Based Convolutional Neural
Networks [Mask R-CNN]) and cluster analysis (Density-based spatial clustering of …

Long term anthropogenic enrichment of soil organic matter stocks in forest soils–Detecting a legacy of historical charcoal production

A Bonhage, F Hirsch, A Schneider, A Raab… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent findings of several thousand relict charcoal hearths (RCHs) in the Tauer Forest
(Brandenburg, Germany) raise questions about the legacy effects of historical charcoal …

Gradients of geochemical change in relic charcoal hearth soils, Northwestern Connecticut, USA

S Donovan, M Ignatiadis, W Ouimet, D Dethier, M Hren - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Relic charcoal hearths (RCHs) have produced distinct legacy effects in forest soils around
the world. Recently, LiDAR imagery has revealed thousands of 18th–early 20th century …

Reduced above-ground growth and wood density but increased wood chemical concentrations of Scots pine on relict charcoal hearths

A Buras, F Hirsch, A Schneider, T Scharnweber… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Deciphering the drivers of tree growth is a central aim of dendroecology. In this context, soil
conditions may play a crucial role, since they determine the availability of water and …