The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America

HI Jager, JW Long, RL Malison, BP Murphy… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and
severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will …

Belowground community responses to fire: meta‐analysis reveals contrasting responses of soil microorganisms and mesofauna

Y Pressler, JC Moore, MF Cotrufo - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global fire regimes are shifting due to climate and land use changes. Understanding the
responses of belowground communities to fire is key to predicting changes in the ecosystem …

Dissolved black carbon in aquatic ecosystems

S Wagner, R Jaffé, A Stubbins - Limnology and Oceanography …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The incomplete combustion of organic molecules produces a chemically diverse suite of
pyrogenic residues termed black carbon (BC). The significance of BC cycling on land has …

Wildfire impacts on molecular changes of dissolved organic matter during its passage through soil

X Cao, SA Li, H Huang, H Ma - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The frequency and intensity of global wildfires are escalating, leading to an increase in
derived pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (pyDOM), which potentially influences the …

Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

AI Coppola, DB Wiedemeier, V Galy, N Haghipour… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Wildfires and incomplete combustion of fossil fuel produce large amounts of black carbon.
Black carbon production and transport are essential components of the carbon cycle …

Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California

R Barton, CM Richardson, E Pae… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal mountain rivers export disproportionately high quantities of terrestrial organic
carbon (OC) directly to the ocean, feeding microbial communities and altering coastal …

Into the unknown: The role of post‐fire soil erosion in the carbon cycle

A Girona‐García, D Vieira, S Doerr… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires directly emit 2.1 Pg carbon (C) to the atmosphere annually. The net effect of
wildfires on the C cycle, however, involves many interacting source and sink processes …

Projecting impacts of wildfire and climate change on streamflow, sediment, and organic carbon yields in a forested watershed

D Loiselle, X Du, DS Alessi, KD Bladon… - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing temperatures and irregular precipitation associated with climate change, along
with increasing frequency and severity of wildfires, contribute to increased downstream …

Relationships between dissolved black carbon and dissolved organic matter in streams

Y Yamashita, D Kojima, N Yoshida, H Shibata - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Black carbon (BC) is a pyrolyzed product derived from incomplete combustion. A major
fraction of BC produced by landscape fires is initially deposited onto onsite soils …