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The pyrogeography of Amazonia: a Holocene perspective

Frontiers of Biogeography
Amazonian forest fires rarely, if ever, ignite and spread in the absence of humans. The first colonization of people into South America happened in the late Pleistocene, and by 10,000 years ago, humans had introduced fire into a naive landscape. Here we build on previous databases of burned 14
McMichael, Crystal N. H., Heijink, Britte M., Witteveen, Nina H., Zwarts, Annabel, Bush, Mark B.   +4 more
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Can We Go Beyond Burned Area in the Assessment of Global Remote Sensing Products with Fire Patch Metrics?

Remote Sensing, 2016
Global burned area (BA) datasets from satellite Earth observations provide information for carbon emission and for Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) benchmarking.
Joana M. P. Nogueira, Julien Ruffault, Emilio Chuvieco, Florent Mouillot   +3 more
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Toward Socio‐Legal Geographies of Fire

Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Human and physical geographers alike have long called for a shift toward the study of fire that re‐politicizes geographies of fire and pyrogeographies. Whether through centering the role of fire in the Anthropocene, proposing the pyrocene to interrogate our current epoch, or looking at the aftermath and governance of fire to better understand ...
Onyx Sloan Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Wave of fire: an anthropogenic signal in historical fire regimes across central Pennsylvania, USA

Ecosphere, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2018., 2018
Abstract Increasingly detailed records of long‐term fire regime characteristics are needed to test ecological concepts and inform natural resource management and policymaking. We reconstructed and analyzed twelve 350+ yr‐long fire scar records developed from 2612 tree‐ring dated fire scars on 432 living and dead pine (Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus
Michael C. Stambaugh, Joseph M. Marschall, Erin R. Abadir, Benjamin C. Jones, Patrick H. Brose, Daniel C. Dey, Richard P. Guyette   +6 more
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Fire refugia in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, USA: Science and applications for conservation, adaptation, and stewardship

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2026.
Concepts and models of fire refugia are increasingly components of forest management and adaptation discussions in the context of wildland fire, forest and habitat conservation, and global change. Here we provide an overview of fire refugia concepts and products being actively developed and applied in forests of the PNW (Washington, Oregon, California),
Meg A. Krawchuk, Garrett W. Meigs, Cameron E. Naficy, David M. Bell, Jessica L. Hudec, Jeremy T. Rockweit, Raymond J. Davis   +6 more
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Have Historical Land Use/Land Cover Changes Triggered a Fire Regime Shift in Central Spain?

Fire, 2019
Fire is one of the main disturbance factors shaping the landscape, and landscape is a key driver of fire behavior. Considering the role played by land use and land cover (LULC) changes as the main driver of landscape dynamics, the aim of this study was ...
Cristina Montiel-Molina, Lara Vilar, Catarina Romão Sequeira, Oskar Karlsson, Luis Galiana-Martín, Gonzalo Madrazo-García de Lomana, Mª Teresa Palacios-Estremera   +6 more
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Global variation in ecoregion flammability thresholds

Ecography, Volume 2024, Issue 7, July 2024.
Anthropogenic climate change is altering the state of worldwide fire regimes, including by increasing the number of days per year when vegetation is dry enough to burn. Indices representing the percent moisture content of dead fine fuels as derived from meteorological data have been used to assess geographic patterns and temporal trends in vegetation ...
Todd M. Ellis, David M. J. S. Bowman, Grant J. Williamson   +2 more
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Megafire: An ambiguous and emotive term best avoided by science

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 341-351, February 2024.
Abstract Background As fire regimes are changing and wildfire disasters are becoming more frequent, the term megafire is increasingly used to describe impactful wildfires, under multiple meanings, both in academia and popular media. This has resulted in a highly ambiguous concept.
Cathelijne R. Stoof, Jasper R. de Vries, Marc Castellnou Ribau, Mariña F. Fernández, David Flores, Julissa Galarza Villamar, Nicholas Kettridge, Desmond Lartey, Peter F. Moore, Fiona Newman Thacker, Susan J. Prichard, Pepijn Tersmette, Sam Tuijtel, Ivo Verhaar, Paulo M. Fernandes   +14 more
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Pyrogeography of extraordinary wildfires

Extraordinary wildfires – defined by anomalous fire behaviour, physical attributes, paleo-ecological context, spatiotemporal scales, or consequences – have emerged as defining features of the global wildfire crisis. Extraordinary wildfires have profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, air quality, and human societies.
Calum Cunningham, Grant Williamson, John Abatzoglou, Crystal Kolden, Matthew Jones, Michael Fromm, David Peterson, Fantina Tedim, Mike Flannigan, Fay Johnston, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, David Bowman   +11 more
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Archaeological evidence of anthropogenic burning for food production in forested uplands of the Grand Canyon province, northern Arizona

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Despite convincing archaeological arguments about the global effects of human pyrogeography and their evolutionary significance, many of the implicated data sources are unavailable in research contexts that lack significant accumulations of charcoal or ...
Alan P. Sullivan, Calla McNamee, Martha Wendel, Philip B. Mink, Susan E. Allen   +4 more
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