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The reformation of Hell? Protestant and Catholic infernalisms in England, c. 1560–1640 [PDF]
, 2010 Despite a recent expansion of interest in the social history of death, there has been little scholarly examination of the impact of the Protestant Reformation on perceptions of and discourses about hell.
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Fire, 2021 Development of comprehensive spatially explicit fire occurrence data remains one of the most critical needs for fire managers globally, and especially for conservation across the southeastern United States.
Casey Teske +4 more
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Human augmentation of historical red pine fire regimes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Ecosphere, 2021 The Border Lakes Region of Minnesota and Ontario has long been viewed as a fire‐dependent ecosystem. High‐severity fire in the region's near‐boreal forests has been a focus of ecological research and public fascination.
Kurt F. Kipfmueller +3 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018 Fire disturbance affects the composition, structure and dynamics of vegetation. Historical records of fire events exist in some places, but they are generally limited in temporal and spatial extent.
Arno Fritz das Neves Brandes +4 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Fire was important to pre‐colonization prairies. In today's remnant and reconstructed prairies, managers frequently employ prescribed fire, a historical management practice that limits woody encroachment, suppresses non‐native species and promotes ...
Erin G. Rowland‐Schaefer +3 more
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Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Historical Fire in an Endangered Ecosystem in the Florida Keys
Fire, 2021 Big Pine Key, Florida, is home to one of Earth’s largest swaths of the critically-endangered dry forests. Known as pine rocklands, this fire-adapted ecosystem must experience regular fire to persist and remain healthy.
Lauren A. Stachowiak +5 more
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Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire [PDF]
, 2012 Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led to so much else, including such traits as language, weapons, tools,
Carmody, Rachel Naomi +1 more
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Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centred History of Energy Use [PDF]
, 2014 Fire is a force that links everyday human activities to some of the most powerful energetic movements of the Earth. Drawing together the energy-centred social theory of Georges Bataille, the fire-centred environmental history of Stephen Pyne, and the ...
Clark, N, Yusoff, K
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Driver analysis of subarctic wildfire severity over a 35-year period
Big Earth DataLarge subarctic wildfires are causing environmental damage, releasing stored carbon, and forcing residents to relocate. Subarctic ecosystems are experiencing earlier, longer, and more intense wildfire seasons due in part to factors such as warmer winters
Daniel Martin Nelson +2 more
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History matters: previous land use changes determine post-fire vegetation recovery in forested Mediterranean landscapes [PDF]
, 2012 Land use changes and shifts in disturbance regimes (e.g. wildfires) are recognized worldwide as two of the major drivers of the current global change in terrestrial ecosystems.
Brotons, Lluís +5 more
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