East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

Fires have influenced atmospheric composition and climate since the rise of vascular plants,
and satellite data have shown the overall global extent of fires. Our knowledge of historic fire …

We present a comparative analysis of fire reconstructions from tree rings and from wood
charcoal preserved in forest soils, peat and lake sediments. Our objective is to highlight the …

The forested swamps of the central Congo Basin store approximately 30 billion metric
tonnes of carbon in peat,. Little is known about the vulnerability of these carbon stocks. Here …

Fire management around the world is now undergoing extensive review, with a move toward
fire management plans that maintain biodiversity and other ecosystems services, while at …

Abstract Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia (SEA) have undergone large-scale
degradation in recent times due to extensive land use changes and drainage associated …

Motivation Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe
fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate …

Black carbon and charcoal's limitation in detecting low-temperature fires could be a major
obstacle in observing paleofire. To reconstruct a low-temperature fire pattern and vegetation …

Although lacustrine sedimentary charcoal has long been used to infer paleofires, their
quantitative reconstructions require improvements of the calibration of their links with fire …

The analysis of charcoal fragments in peat and lake sediments is the most widely used
approach to reconstruct past biomass burning. With a few exceptions, this method typically …