[HTML][HTML] Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492

A Koch, C Brierley, MM Maslin, SL Lewis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

E Dietze, M Theuerkauf, K Bloom, A Brauer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …

Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions

AT Karp, JT Faith, JR Marlon, AC Staver - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

JR Marlon, R Kelly, AL Daniau, B Vannière… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many
parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

A Feurdean, B Vannière, W Finsinger, D Warren… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Wildfire occurrence is influenced by climate, vegetation and human activities. A key
challenge for understanding the risk of fires is quantifying the mediating effect of vegetation …

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 …

Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia's vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

SE Connor, B Vannière, D Colombaroli… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the
Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain uncertain, given that fire regime changes and …

Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia

EY Novenko, DA Kupryanov, NG Mazei… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent climate change in Siberia is increasing the probability of dangerous forest fires. The
development of effective measures to mitigate and prevent fires is impossible without an …

Neotoma: A programmatic interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database

S Goring, A Dawson, GL Simpson… - Open …, 2015 - account.openquaternary.com
Paleoecological data are integral to ecological and evolutionary analyses. First, they provide
an opportunity to study ecological and evolutionary interactions between communities and …

New insights from pre-Columbian land use and fire management in Amazonian dark earth forests

SY Maezumi, M Robinson, J De Souza… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic climate change driven by increased carbon emissions is leading to more
severe fire seasons and increasing the frequency of mega-fires in the Amazon. This has the …