Neotropical biomass burning reconstructions synthesized from soil and sedimentary
charcoal records indicate a period of reduced biomass burning sustained for several …

A new reconstruction of Late Holocene biomass burning in the tropical Americas is
consistent with the expansion of fire use by Mesoamerican and Amazonian agriculturalists …

Fire regimes have changed during the Holocene due to changes in climate, vegetation, and
in human practices. Here, we hypothesise that changes in fire regime may have affected the …

Abstract A 50,000-year-old sediment core record from Laguna Chaplin is reanalyzed to
explore potential paleoecological methods to detect the extent of pre-Columbian …

Fire is an important and arguably unnatural component of many wet Amazonian and
Andean forest systems. Soil charcoal has been used to infer widespread human use of …

We document the fire history of the forests of a well-studied ecological research station (Los
Amigos) in western Amazonia through soil charcoal analysis, and compare results with data …

Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, but past relationships
among fire, climate, and human actions remain unclear. A multiscale analysis of thirty-four …

Charcoal preserved in lake sediments is commonly used to reconstruct past trends in fire
occurrence. However, interpretation of the charcoal record is often complicated, as changes …

The potential impact of human activity on the climate system, particularly as related to fossil
fuel combustion, is widely acknowledged. However, little is known of the origin and …

The relative importance of people and climate in shaping prehistoric fire regimes is debated
around the world, and this discussion has helped inform our understanding of past and …