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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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“A History of Fire and Flame” [PDF]
Nature, 1932 A PROBLEM that the alchemists found ex-tremely difficult to solve was the preparation of an amalgam of iron. Dr. Ellis has attempted an analogous task, namely, the fusion into a homogeneous unity of the cold and hard scientific facts of the history of fire with the aesthetic appeal of fire and flame to his poetical emotions.
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2009 We investigated the long-term effects of fire frequency on Colophospermum mopane and Combretum apiculatum woodland structure and composition in northern Gonarezhou National Park (GNP), Zimbabwe.
Edson Gandiwa, Shakkie Kativu
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Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation
Ecosphere, 2019 Unraveling the effects of climate and land use on historical fire regimes provides important insights into broader human–fire–climate dynamics, which are necessary for ecologically based forest management.
Christopher H. Guiterman +5 more
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A 5,000-Year Fire History in the Strait of Georgia Lowlands, British Columbia, Canada
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Improved knowledge of long-term fire regimes and climate-fire-human relationships are important for effective management of forested ecosystems. In this study, we use two, high-resolution sedimentary-charcoal records to provide new, mid to late Holocene ...
Sinead F. Murphy +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Herbivory by wild and domestic ungulates can influence tree recruitment and understory forest communities throughout the world. Herbivore‐driven declines in tree recruitment have been observed for quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), a foundation species
Elizabeth S. Reikowski +2 more
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Optimal fire histories for biodiversity conservation [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2014 Abstract Fire is used as a management tool for biodiversity conservation worldwide. A common objective is to avoid population extinctions due to inappropriate fire regimes. However, in many ecosystems, it is unclear what mix of fire histories will achieve this goal. We determined the optimal fire history of a given area for biological
Kelly, LT +3 more
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Applications in Plant Sciences, 2014 Premise of the study: Charcoal particles preserved in sediments are used as indicators of paleowildfire. Most research focuses on abundance as an indicator of fire frequency, but charcoals also convey information about the vegetation from which they are ...
Alastair J. Crawford, Claire M. Belcher
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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, Nigel +5 more
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