Tree rings reveal unmatched 2nd century drought in the Colorado River Basin

S Gangopadhyay, CA Woodhouse… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing 22‐year drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) has been
extremely severe, even in the context of the longest available tree‐ring reconstruction of …

Identifying past fire regimes throughout the Holocene in Ireland using new and established methods of charcoal analysis

D Hawthorne, FJG Mitchell - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Globally, in recent years there has been an increase in the scale, intensity and level of
destruction caused by wildfires. This can be seen in Ireland where significant changes in …

Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia's vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

SE Connor, B Vannière, D Colombaroli… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the
Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain uncertain, given that fire regime changes and …

Do bark beetle remains in lake sediments correspond to severe outbreaks? A review of published and ongoing research

JL Morris, CJC Mustaphi, VA Carter, J Watt, K Derr… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The recent continental-scale outbreak of native bark beetles in western North America is
unprecedented at least since Euro-American settlement. Observational and modeling …

[HTML][HTML] A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records

CC Routson, DS Kaufman, NP McKay… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and
spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of …

Holocene climate–fire–vegetation interactions at a subalpine watershed in southeastern British Columbia, Canada

CJC Mustaphi, MFJ Pisaric - Quaternary Research, 2014 - cambridge.org
Vegetation assemblages and associated disturbance regimes are spatially heterogeneous
in mountain ecosystems throughout the world due to the complex terrain and strong …

Post-fire forest dynamics and climate variability affect spatial and temporal properties of spruce beetle outbreaks on a Sky Island mountain range

CD O'Connor, AM Lynch, DA Falk… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) is known for extensive outbreaks resulting in
high spruce mortality, but several recent outbreaks in the western United States have been …

Dating the period when intensive anthropogenic activity began to influence the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China

J Cong, C Gao, Y Zhang, S Zhang, J He, G Wang - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Dating the start of intensive anthropogenic influence on ecosystems is important for
identifying the conditions necessary for ecosystem recovery. However, few studies have …

Soil macrocharcoals reveal millennial-scale stability at the Pando aspen clonal colony, Utah, USA

J Novák, A Kusbach, J Šebesta, PC Rogers - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Communities of Populus tremuloides are widespread in the north and central-west part of
North America. A well-known aspen site is the Pando aspen clone, which is situated …

Intentional fire management in the Holocene with emphasis on hunter-gatherers in the Mesolithic in South Norway

L Selsing - AmS-Skrifter, 2016 - journals.uis.no
The geographical and altitudinal distribution of the data from 68 palynological sites has
allowed the synthesis of a relationship between the microscopic charcoal curves and people …