Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance

JD Napier, ML Chipman - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe
fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate …

[PDF][PDF] Thirty Years of Progress in Our Understanding of the Nature and Influence of Fire in Carboniferous Ecosystems

AC Scott - Fire, 2024 - researchgate.net
Until the late 20th century, the idea of identifying wildfires in deep time was not generally
accepted. One of the basic problems was the fact that charcoal-like wood fragments, so often …

Structural performance and charring of loaded wood under fire

R Qin, A Zhou, CL Chow, D Lau - Engineering structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Wood has been widely used in construction and infrastructures due to its great
environmental and economic benefits. However, wood structures are highly vulnerable to …

[HTML][HTML] Fire as a removal mechanism of pyrogenic carbon from the environment: effects of fire and pyrogenic carbon characteristics

SH Doerr, C Santin, A Merino, CM Belcher… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC, charcoal) is produced during vegetation fires at a rate of~ 116–385
Tg C yr-1 globally. It represents one of the most degradation-resistant organic carbon pools …

Using charcoal, ATR FTIR and chemometrics to model the intensity of pyrolysis: Exploratory steps towards characterising fire events

M Constantine IV, S Mooney, B Hibbert, C Marjo… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study describes a multivariate statistical model (derived using partial least squares
regression, PLS-R) that derives charring intensity (reaction temperature and duration) from …

Dynamic of the structural alteration of biochar in ancient Anthrosol over a long timescale by Raman spectroscopy

DV Sousa, LM Guimarães, JF Felix, JC Ker… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The presence of biochar with high carbon accumulation capacity and nutrient adsorption is
causally associated with archeological soils. Although this type of soil organic matter has …

Stable polycyclic aromatic carbon (SPAC) formation in wildfire chars and engineered biochars

A Howell, S Helmkamp, E Belmont - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is an important component of wildfire chars and engineered
biochars due to its potential environmental longevity, the most environmentally stable …

Evidence of wildfires and elevated atmospheric oxygen at the Frasnian–Famennian boundary in New York (USA): implications for the Late Devonian mass extinction

Z Liu, D Selby, PC Hackley, DJ Over - Bulletin, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Devonian Period experienced significant fluctuations of atmospheric oxygen
(O2) levels (∼ 25–13%), for which the extent and timing are debated. Also characteristic of …

[HTML][HTML] A modern analogue matching approach to characterize fire temperatures and plant species from charcoal

SY Maezumi, WD Gosling, J Kirschner… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Charcoal identification and the quantification of its abundance in sedimentary archives is
commonly used to reconstruct fire frequency and the amounts of biomass burning. There …

Variability in pyrogenic carbon properties generated by different burning temperatures and peatland plant litters: implication for identifying fire intensity and fuel types

C Gao, J Cong, Y Sun, D Han… - International Journal of …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), generated by fire, acts as a stable carbon deposit in natural
ecosystems and is widely used to reconstruct fire history. Fuel type and burning temperature …