Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low
elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely …

Fire is a key Earth system process, with 80% of annual fire activity taking place in grassland
areas. However, past fire regimes in grassland systems have been difficult to quantify due to …

The rarity of rapid campaigns to characterize soils across scales limits opportunities to
investigate variation in soil carbon stocks (SOC) storage simultaneously at large and small …

African grassy biomes evolved together with fire and have a long history of human
manipulation of fire, yet few rangeland studies acknowledge the role of prehistoric fire in …

ABSTRACT The Great Plains experienced extreme fluctuations in precipitation and
temperature throughout the Holocene, but these fluctuations have been difficult to quantify …

Sedimentary deposits in lakes across the upper Midwest record the co-evolution of climate
and biogeochemistry since the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last …

Pollen and diatom assemblages from well-dated sediment cores from three lakes forming a
west-to-east transect across the boreal forest in northwest Ontario (Canada) were used to …

We conducted fossil pollen, charcoal, and geochemical analyses of sediment cores from
Jones Lake and Singletary Lake spanning the last∼ 50,000 cal yr BP to examine the …

Large herbivores drive critical ecological processes, yet their long-term dynamics and effects
are poorly understood due to the limitations of existing paleoherbivore proxies. To address …

Imaging of charcoal particles extracted from lake sediments provides an important way to
understand past fire regimes. Imaging of large numbers of particles can be time consuming …