We synthesize existing sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct Holocene fire history at
regional, continental and global scales. The reconstructions are compared with the two …

The abundance of charcoal in sediments has been interpreted as a 'fire history'at about
1,000 sites across the globe. This research effort reflects the importance of fire in many …

In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent
fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the …

For millennia, forest ecosystems in California have been shaped by fire from both natural
processes and Indigenous land management, but the notion of climatic variation as a …

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well‐being throughout
the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad …

Age–depth models form the backbone of most palaeoenvironmental studies. However,
procedures for constructing chronologies vary between studies, they are usually not …

Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching
ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for …

Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50%
of total soil carbon. Because wildfire is a key driver of terrestrial carbon cycling, increasing …

Fire is well recognized as a key Earth system process, but its causes and influences vary
greatly across spatial and temporal scales. The controls of fire are often portrayed as a set of …

In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and
plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This …