Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change
explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme wildfire weather will …

We examine the temporal and spatial structure of wildfires and rates of vegetation change in
the Pacific sector of northwestern Patagonia (40°-44° S) over the last∼ 18,000 years …

Understanding long-term fire ecology is essential for current day interpretation of ecosystem
fire responses. However palaeoecology of fire is still poorly understood, especially at high …

Sedimentary charcoal records are widely used to reconstruct regional changes in fire
regimes through time in the geological past. Existing global compilations are not …

Vegetation changes in the Maya Lowlands during the Holocene are a result of changing
climate conditions, solely anthropogenic activities, or interactions of both factors. As a …

The long-term response of ancient societies to climate change has been a matter of global
debate. Until recently, the lack of integrative studies using archaeological, palaeoecological …

Commonly proposed definitions of the" anthropocene" suggest that significant human
alteration of the Earth system is connected to fossil fuel consumption coinciding with the …

This paper addresses a topic highlighted in recent arguments by Amazonian scholars: the
extent to which forms of forest management in prehistory influenced the past and present …

It has been suggested that Iberian arrival in the Americas in 1492 and subsequent dramatic
depopulation led to forest regrowth that had global impacts on atmospheric CO2 …

Fire is a key ecological process affecting vegetation dynamics and land cover. The
characteristic frequency, size, and intensity of fire are driven by interactions between top …