Wildfires in Chile: A review

X Úbeda, P Sarricolea - Global and Planetary Change, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the literature examining the wildfire phenomenon in Chile. Since ancient
times, Chile's wildfires have shaped the country's landscape, but today, as in many other …

A review of Glacial and Holocene paleoclimate records from southernmost Patagonia (49–55 S)

R Kilian, F Lamy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Southern South America is the only landmass intersecting the southern westerly wind belt
(SWW) that influences the large-scale oceanography and controls for example the …

[BOOK][B] The biology of peatlands, 2e

H Rydin, JK Jeglum, KD Bennett - 2013 - books.google.com
Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant
roles for biodiversity and global carbon balance. This new edition has been fully revised and …

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

MJ Power, J Marlon, N Ortiz, PJ Bartlein, SP Harrison… - Climate dynamics, 2008 - Springer
Fire activity has varied globally and continuously since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in
response to long-term changes in global climate and shorter-term regional changes in …

[PDF][PDF] Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: revisiting the fire-regime concept

C Whitlock, PE Higuera, DB McWethy… - The Open Ecology …, 2010 - academia.edu
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 …

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

PE Higuera, DG Gavin, PJ Bartlein… - International Journal of …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Over the past several decades, high-resolution sediment–charcoal records have been
increasingly used to reconstruct local fire history. Data analysis methods usually involve a …

From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: A historical framework for land cover change in southwestern South America in the past 15,000 years

JJ Armesto, D Manuschevich, A Mora… - Land use policy, 2010 - Elsevier
The main forest transitions that took place in south-central Chile from the end of the last
glaciation to the present are reviewed here with the aim of identifying the main climatic and …

Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

T Kitzberger, GLW Perry, J Paritsis… - New Zealand Journal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the context of global warming and increasing impacts of invasive plants and animals, we
examine how positive fire–vegetation feedbacks are increasing the vulnerability of …

A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes

DB McWethy, PE Higuera, C Whitlock… - Global Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The increased incidence of large fires around much of the world in recent decades
raises questions about human and non‐human drivers of fire and the likelihood of increased …

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem

MS Fletcher, PI Moreno - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The prevailing view in the palaeoclimate literature of the last 20 years is that the Southern
Westerly Winds (SWW) were intensified over southern Australia and Tasmania during the …