Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Multi‐scale controls of historical forest‐fire regimes: new insights from fire‐scar networks

DA Falk, EK Heyerdahl, PM Brown… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating future forest‐fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and
natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time …

Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

R Kelly, ML Chipman, PE Higuera… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching
ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective

SP Harrison, IC Prentice, KJ Bloomfield… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally
hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on …

[PDF][PDF] Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: revisiting the fire-regime concept

C Whitlock, PE Higuera, DB McWethy… - The Open Ecology …, 2010 - academia.edu
Fire is well recognized as a key Earth system process, but its causes and influences vary
greatly across spatial and temporal scales. The controls of fire are often portrayed as a set of …

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

JR Marlon, R Kelly, AL Daniau, B Vannière… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many
parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

PE Higuera, DG Gavin, PJ Bartlein… - International Journal of …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Over the past several decades, high-resolution sediment–charcoal records have been
increasingly used to reconstruct local fire history. Data analysis methods usually involve a …

[图书][B] Mountains and plains: the ecology of Wyoming landscapes

DH Knight, GP Jones, WA Reiners, WH Romme - 2014 - books.google.com
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the ecology of Wyoming and adjacent Rocky
Mountain states Many changes--some discouraging, others hopeful--have occurred in the …