Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia

A Feurdean, G Florescu, I Tanţău, B Vannière… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires in Siberia are documented to have increased in frequency and severity over recent
decades. However, in the absence of long-term records, it is unclear how far and why this …

Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

E Dietze, M Theuerkauf, K Bloom, A Brauer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

S Garcés-Pastor, E Coissac, S Lavergne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by
ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

A Feurdean, B Vannière, W Finsinger, D Warren… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Wildfire occurrence is influenced by climate, vegetation and human activities. A key
challenge for understanding the risk of fires is quantifying the mediating effect of vegetation …

Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia's vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

SE Connor, B Vannière, D Colombaroli… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the
Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain uncertain, given that fire regime changes and …

[HTML][HTML] Late-glacial and Holocene shifts in the mountain landscapes of the Cantabrian range (northern Spain) in response to changing climate, fire occurrence and …

A van der Horst, W Tinner, FJ Ezquerra, E Gobet… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A new well-dated (18 14 C dates on short-lived terrestrial plant macrofossils, 210
Pb and 137 Cs dating) fine-resolution palaeoecological sequence (pollen, coprophilous …

[HTML][HTML] A chronologically reliable record of 17,000 years of biomass burning in the Lake Victoria area

Y Temoltzin-Loranca, E Gobet, B Vanniere… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire regimes differ across tropical and subtropical biomes depending on multiple parameters
whose interactions and levels of importance are poorly understood, particularly at …

Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

S Brechbühl, L van Vugt, E Gobet… - Vegetation History and …, 2024 - Springer
Detailed knowledge about the interactions between vegetation, climate and land use during
the Mesolithic and Neolithic, at the transition from foraging to farming, is still scarce in the …

Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types

A Feurdean, AC Diaconu, M Pfeiffer, M Gałka… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
Wildfire is the most common disturbance type in boreal forests and can trigger significant
changes in forest composition. Waterlogging in peatlands determines the degree of tree …

Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA

VA Carter, A Brunelle, MJ Power, RJ DeRose… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Climatic conditions exert an important influence on wildfire activity in the western United
States; however, Indigenous farming activity may have also shaped the local fire regimes for …