Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function and modelling

TH Deluca, C Boisvenue - Forestry, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Increasing accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to calls for terrestrial
mechanisms for CO2 abatement and given that soils represent the largest terrestrial body of …

Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model

PE Higuera, ME Peters, LB Brubaker… - Quaternary Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
Interpreting sediment-charcoal records is challenging because there is little information
linking charcoal production from fires to charcoal accumulation in lakes. We present a …

Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south‐central Brooks Range, Alaska

PE Higuera, LB Brubaker, PM Anderson… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial‐scale climate change on fire regimes
in the south‐central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and …

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 …

Weak climatic control of stand‐scale fire history during the late Holocene

DG Gavin, FS Hu, K Lertzman, P Corbett - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Forest fire occurrence is affected by multiple controls that operate at local to regional scales.
At the spatial scale of forest stands, regional climatic controls may be obscured by local …

Short paper: A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment–charcoal records

RF Kelly, PE Higuera, CM Barrett, FS Hu - Quaternary Research, 2011 - cambridge.org
Charcoal peaks in lake-sediment records are commonly used to reconstruct fire histories
spanning thousands of years, but quantitative methods for evaluating the suitability of …

Atmospheric, climatic, and ecological controls on extreme wildfire years in the northwestern United States

Z Gedalof, DL Peterson, NJ Mantua - Ecological Applications, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Wildland fire is an important disturbance agent in forests of the American Northwest.
Historical fire suppression efforts have contributed to an accumulation of fuels in many …

Charcoal and carbon storage in forest soils of the Rocky Mountain West

TH DeLuca, GH Aplet - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Charcoal represents a super‐passive form of carbon (C) that is generated during fire events
and is one of the few legacies of fire recorded in the soil profile; however, the importance of …

Charcoal production, dispersal, and deposition from the Fort Providence experimental fire: interpreting fire regimes from charcoal records in boreal forests

JA Lynch, JS Clark, BJ Stocks - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
La relation entre la production de charbon de bois lors des feux de forêt et le dépôt de
charbon de bois dans les lacs est peu connue, ce qui limite l'interprétation des données sur …

Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: the Holocene record of Lago dell'Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

B Vannière, D Colombaroli, E Chapron… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
A high-resolution sedimentary charcoal record from Lago dell'Accesa in southern Tuscany
reveals numerous changes in fire regime over the last 11.6 kyrcal. BP and provides one of …