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Potential of Texture Analysis for Charcoal Classification [PDF]

Floresta e Ambiente, 2019
Charcoal produced from reforested wood can be distinguished from the charcoal derived from the wood of native species. This identification is very important for the trade, control and monitoring of charcoal production in Brazil.
Bruno Geike de Andrade, Benedito Rocha Vital, Angélica de Cássia Oliveira Carneiro, Vanessa Maria Basso, Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto   +4 more
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Investigating the Effect of Oxidants on the Quantification and Characterization of Charcoal in Two Southeast Australian Sedimentary Records

Fire, 2023
This study examined the effects of commonly used oxidants in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal analysis on two sediment cores from Thirlmere Lakes National Park, Southeast Australia.
Mark Constantine IV, Xiaohong Zhu, Haidee Cadd, Scott Mooney   +3 more
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Dynamics of Diversity of Woody Species Taxa under Human Impact in the Upper Volga Region (NW Russia) According to Pedoanthracological Data

Diversity, 2023
We studied charcoal from several types of natural soil archives, including cultural layers of archaeological sites (hillforts), surrounding forest and arable soils, and sediments in lower parts of the slopes associated with hillforts and moraine hills ...
Maxim V. Bobrovsky, Dmitry A. Kupriyanov, Alexei L. Smirnov, Larisa G. Khanina, Maria V. Dobrovolskaya, Alexei V. Tiunov   +5 more
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The comparative use of charcoal frequency, area and morphology to reconstruct fire history in a late Holocene peat sequence from NW Romania [PDF]

Mires and Peat, 2023
Ombrotrophic peatlands are ideal archives for reconstructing charcoal fluxes resulting from vegetation burning. This is because they are sensitive to local environmental changes and the deposition of allochthonous material is exclusively atmospheric ...
Ancuţa Petraș, Diana Istrate
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Climate, fire disturbance regime, and vegetation response of the past 2500 years for central Nova Scotia

Ecosphere, 2023
The interaction between climate change and disturbances affects forest composition and dynamics, but most of our empirical knowledge comes from short‐term studies of the past century.
K. Gajewski, Karen Neil, Elena Ponomarenko, Ekaterina Ershova, Bruce Stewart, Peter Neily, Eugene Quigley   +6 more
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How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The history of fruit-tree utilization by prehistoric people has become an important issue that has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the question of how people used fruit trees has not yet been answered; in particular, the impacts ...
Fengwen Liu, Hucai Zhang, Hu Li, Xiaonan Zhang, Qi Liu, Yang Zhang, Haoyu Li, Minmin Ma   +7 more
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The Effect of Charcoal Based Chewing Gums in Reducing the Concentration of Unwanted Substances and Compounds: Dyes, Microbes and Viruses in Saliva [PDF]

Pizhūhish va Nuāvarī dar ̒Ulūm va Sanāyi̒-i Ghaz̠āyī, 2022
Adding various substances to the chewing gums has led to the formation of new applications for them, which include drug delivery and oral and dental hygiene.
Mohammad Karimi, Ali Akbar Hemmati Nejad, Elham Yavari   +2 more
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Crops on the Rocks: Production, Processing, and Storage at the Early Medieval Site of Senhora Do Barrocal (Municipality of Sátão, Central Portugal)

Plants, 2022
Small rural places are largely absent from early medieval written sources, but they were profuse and relevant in regional settlements and economies. Only through archaeological and archaeobotanical investigation is it possible to unveil their structure ...
Luís Seabra, Catarina Tente, Filipe Costa Vaz, Cláudia Oliveira, Lara González Carretero, João Pedro Tereso   +5 more
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Paleoecological Investigation of Vegetation, Climate and Fire History in, and Adjacent to, Kootenay National Park, Southeastern British Columbia, Canada

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Paleoecological investigation of two montane lakes in the Kootenay region of southeast British Columbia, Canada, reveal changes in vegetation in response to climate and fire throughout the Holocene. Pollen, charcoal, and lake sediment carbon accumulation
Thomas J. Rodengen, Marlow G. Pellatt, Marlow G. Pellatt, Karen E. Kohfeld, Karen E. Kohfeld   +4 more
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Changes in Wood Utilization Due to Iron Age Jade Mining in the Western Hexi Corridor: Wood Charcoal Investigations

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Charcoal remains from archeological sites are used not only to reconstruct the historical composition of local woodlands but also to examine the history of the human use of wood.
Fengwen Liu, Yishi Yang, Guoke Chen, Shanjia Zhang, Hucai Zhang   +4 more
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