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 …

Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans

MW Jones, AI Coppola, C Santín, T Dittmar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is a recalcitrant form of organic carbon (OC) produced by landscape fires.
BC is an important component of the global carbon cycle because, compared to unburned …

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 …

Experimental open air burning of vegetation enhances organic matter chemical heterogeneity compared to laboratory burns

AN Myers-Pigg, S Grieger, JA Roebuck Jr… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wildfires produce solid residuals that have unique chemical and physical properties
compared to unburned materials, which influence their cycling and fate in the natural …

Spatiotemporal controls on the delivery of dissolved organic matter to streams following a wildfire

JA Roebuck Jr, KD Bladon, D Donahue… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Warmer and drier climate has contributed to increased occurrence of large, high severity
wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, drawing concerns for water quality and ecosystem …

Anhydrosugars as tracers in the Earth system

LG Suciu, CA Masiello, RJ Griffin - Biogeochemistry, 2019 - Springer
Wild and prescribed fires are important sources of a broad suite of organic compounds
collectively termed pyrogenic carbon (PyC). Most PyC compounds have additional sources …

Land use controls on the spatial variability of dissolved black carbon in a subtropical watershed

JA Roebuck Jr, M Seidel, T Dittmar… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Rivers export roughly 250 Pg of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to coastal oceans. DOC
exported from rivers can be a reflection of watershed dynamics, and changes in land use …

Transport and deposition of the fire biomarker levoglucosan across the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

LT Schreuder, EC Hopmans, JBW Stuut… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Biomass burning impacts biogeochemical cycling, vegetation dynamics and climate.
However, interactions between fire, climate and vegetation are not well understood and …

Delivery of metals and dissolved black carbon to the southern California coastal ocean via aerosols and floodwaters following the 2017 Thomas Fire

RL Kelly, X Bian, SJ Feakins… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Thomas Fire began on December 4, 2017 and burned 281,893 acres over a 40‐
day period in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, making it one of California's most …

Interaction of fire, vegetation, and climate in tropical ecosystems: A multiproxy study over the past 22,000 years

Y Ruan, M Mohtadi, LM Dupont… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fire causes dramatic energy and matter exchanges between biosphere and atmosphere on
a regional to global scale. Predicting fires, however, is hindered by the complex interplay of …