Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

M Conedera, W Tinner, C Neff, M Meurer… - Quaternary Science …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Biomass burning and resulting fire regimes are major drivers of vegetation changes and of
ecosystem dynamics. Understanding past fire dynamics and their relationship to these …

Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada

SCP Coogan, LD Daniels, D Boychuk… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research by reflecting
on the considerable progress accomplished in select areas of Canadian wildland fire …

Ecosystem management based on natural disturbances: hierarchical context and non‐equilibrium paradigm

AS Mori - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Maintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well‐grounded
principles of disturbance ecology. However, non‐equilibrium aspects of ecosystems, such …

Holocene fire history of a coastal temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates

DG Gavin, LB Brubaker, KP Lertzman - Ecology, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term role of fire in coastal temperate rain forest is poorly understood. To determine
the historical role of fire on western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada), we …

Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records

DG Gavin, DJ Hallett, FS Hu… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Millennial‐scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem
management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range …

Influence of landslides on biophysical diversity—a perspective from British Columbia

M Geertsema, JJ Pojar - Geomorphology, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Landslides have long been overlooked or underestimated as important natural disturbance
agents. In particular the ecological role of landslides in maintaining biological diversity has …

11 000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rain forests of southwestern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal

DJ Hallett, DS Lepofsky, RW Mathewes… - Canadian Journal of …, 2003‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Little is known about the role of fire in the mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.)
Carrière) rain forests of southern British Columbia. High-resolution analysis of macroscopic …

An 1800-year record of the spatial and temporal distribution of fire from the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

DG Gavin, LB Brubaker… - Canadian Journal of …, 2003‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Charcoal records from lake sediments may show changes in fire frequency over thousands
of years, but such records are ambiguous with regard to the actual locations of fires. Using a …

Ecosystem-based management in the Great Bear Rainforest

K Price, A Roburn, A MacKinnon - Forest Ecology and Management, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Ecosystem-based management is the management system being applied to 6.4 million
hectares of the coast of British Columbia, Canada, an area referred to as the Great Bear …

The paradigm of management, management systems, and resource stewardship

K Lertzman - Journal of Ethnobiology, 2009‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The idea of “management” is central to our understanding of how people interact with their
resources, but many challenges have arisen to traditional concepts of western, science …