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Global fire history of grassland biomes. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2018
AbstractGrasslands 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 linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have been converted to urban areas, forests, or agriculture fields.
Leys BA, Marlon JR, Umbanhowar C, Vannière B.   +3 more
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30,000 years of fire history in the Cerrado. [PDF]

Sci Rep
The Cerrado, or Brazilian savanna, is a fire-prone ecosystem whose fire adaptations likely originated in the Miocene, with many plants retaining fire-adapted traits of fire up to the present. It is nowadays one of the most frequently and intensely burned ecosystem on Earth, but little is known about its fire history, from the Miocene to more recent ...
Ledru MP, Franco Cassino R, Escobar-Torrez K, Horák-Terra I, Pivello V.   +4 more
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Impact of forest fire on radial growth of tree rings and their element concentrations of Pinus sylvestris and Larix gmelinii in northern China

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
AimsThrough analyzing the responses of the radial growth and element concentrations (B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Zn, Na, P, Ni, and Cu) of tree rings of two dominant tree species to forest fires, we aimed to investigate the relationship between tree rings ...
Mao Wei, Xinbin Guo, Yuanfan Ma, Mulualem Tigabu, Wenxia Zheng, Mengxia Liu, Mengxia Liu, Futao Guo   +7 more
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African fire histories and fire ecologies [PDF]

Past Global Change Magazine, 2018
Patterns of fire are changing across African savannahs, rainforests, fynbos, woodlands, and Afroalpine and montane forests, with direct environmental and socio-ecological consequences. Fire variability has implications for biodiversity (Beale et al. 2018), vegetation patterns, grazing quality, carbon emissions, protected area management, and landscape ...
Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin, Colombaroli, Daniele, Vannière, Boris, Adolf, Carole, Bremond, Laurent, Aleman, Julie, The Global Paleofire Working Group   +6 more
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Vegetation History in Central Croatia from ~10,000 Cal BC to the Beginning of Common Era—Filling the Palaeoecological Gap for the Western Part of South-Eastern Europe (Western Balkans)

Diversity, 2023
The aim of this study was to reconstruct the vegetation changes, fire history and local landscape dynamics of central Croatia (the western part of south-eastern Europe) from 9800 cal yr BP to the beginning of the Common Era.
Dario Hruševar, Koraljka Bakrač, Slobodan Miko, Nikolina Ilijanić, Martina Šparica Miko, Ozren Hasan, Božena Mitić   +6 more
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The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Every year, millions of hectares burn across Siberia, driven by a combination of warming temperatures, regional drought and human-caused ignitions. Dendrochronology provides a long-term context to evaluate recent trends in fire activity and interpret the
Erica R Bigio, Thomas W Swetnam, Christopher H Baisan, Christopher H Guiterman, Yegor K Kisilyakhov, Sergey G Andreev, Eduard A Batotsyrenov, Alexander A Ayurzhanaev   +7 more
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The effect of various Fire management strategies on the occurrence and size of unplanned wildfires in a large African Savanna park

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Savannas cover approximately 20% of the global land surface. In African savannas, fire is an important agent controlling these ecosystems. Kruger National Park (KNP) is a large African savanna park which was proclaimed in 1926.
Tercia Strydom, Stephen Ancetus Midzi
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Forest Structure and Fire History at Lake Arcadia, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (1820–2014)

Oklahoma Native Plant Record, 2015
Evidence indicates that the structure of Oklahoma Cross Timbers forests are in transition due to changing climate, land-use patterns, and fire suppression efforts.
Chad B. King
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First Spatial Reconstruction of Past Fires in Temperate Europe Suggests Large Variability of Fire Sizes and an Important Role of Human-Related Ignitions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The spatial component of past forest fires in temperate Europe has been little studied, despite the value of such data in quantifying human and natural factors driving fire activity and associated forest dynamics.
Ewa Zin, Ewa Zin, Łukasz Kuberski, Igor Drobyshev, Igor Drobyshev, Igor Drobyshev, Mats Niklasson, Mats Niklasson   +7 more
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Performance of Burn-Severity Metrics and Classification in Oak Woodlands and Grasslands

Remote Sensing, 2015
Burn severity metrics and classification have yet to be tested for many eastern U.S. deciduous vegetation types, but, if suitable, would be valuable for documenting and monitoring landscape-scale restoration projects that employ prescribed fire ...
Michael C. Stambaugh, Lyndia D. Hammer, Ralph Godfrey   +2 more
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