The carbon (C) cycle in boreal regions is strongly influenced by fire, which converts biomass
and detrital C mainly to gaseous forms (CO 2 and smaller proportions of CO and CH 4), and …

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 …

Many studies report that, under some circumstances, amending soil with biochar can
improve field capacity and plant-available water. However, little is known about the …

Biochar is not a structured homogeneous material; rather it possesses a range of chemical
structures and a heterogeneous elemental composition. This variability is based on the …

Locally extensive pre-Columbian human occupation and modification occurred in the forests
of the central and eastern Amazon Basin, but whether comparable impacts extend westward …

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), the residue of an incomplete combustion of biomass, is considered
as a carbon (C) sink due to its assumed stability in soil. PyC turnover time estimated using …

Charcoal represents a super‐passive form of carbon (C) that is generated during fire events
and is one of the few legacies of fire recorded in the soil profile; however, the importance of …

Biochar contains a large amount of colloidal particles. Biochar colloids are generated (1)
during pyrolysis of the feedstock, where some of the biochar formed is in the colloidal size …

Current models of the peopling of the higher-elevation zones of the Tibetan Plateau
postulate that permanent occupation could only have been facilitated by an agricultural …

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 …