Global fire history of grassland biomes

A comparative review of soil charcoal data: Spatiotemporal patterns of origin and long-term dynamics of Western European nutrient-poor grasslands

(2018) Vincent Robin et al.   HOLOCENE

Regional variation in Holocene climate quantified from pollen in the Great Plains of North America

(2017) Julie L. Commerford et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

(2017) Adam F. A. Pellegrini et al.   NATURE

Reconstructing grassland fire history using sedimentary charcoal: Considering count, size and shape

(2017) Berangere A. Leys et al.   PLoS One

Subalpine fires: the roles of vegetation, climate and, ultimately, land uses

(2016) Bérangère Leys et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Constraints to restoring fire and grazing ecological processes to optimize grassland vegetation structural diversity

(2016) John Derek Scasta et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire-vegetation feedback

(2016) G. Lasslop et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The structure of Holocene climate change in mid-latitude North America

(2016) Bryan N. Shuman et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

(2016) B. Vannière et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Surface Temperatures and Durations Associated with Spring Prescribed Fires in Eastern South Dakota Tallgrass Prairies

(2015) Michelle K. Ohrtman et al.   AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST

Fire ecology of C3and C4grasses depends on evolutionary history and frequency of burning but not photosynthetic type

(2015) Brad Ripley et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems: amount of charcoal reflects local area burned

(2015) Bérangère Leys et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

(2015) Joseph W Veldman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Great Plains vegetation dynamics in response to fire and climatic fluctuations during the Holocene at Fox Lake, Minnesota (USA)

(2015) Julie L Commerford et al.   HOLOCENE

Using sedimentary records to inform the causes of woody plant encroachment in Southwestern US Desert Grasslands

(2015) Andrea Brunelle et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Regional paleofire regimes affected by non-uniform climate, vegetation and human drivers

(2015) Olivier Blarquez et al.   Scientific Reports

Fire and grazing modify grass community response to environmental determinants in savannas: Implications for sustainable use

(2014) Rajat Ramakant Nayak et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

paleofire: An R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass burning

(2014) Olivier Blarquez et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Contrasting long-term records of biomass burning in wet and dry savannas of equatorial East Africa

(2014) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Distribution mapping of world grassland types

(2014) A. P. Dixon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire frequency, agricultural history and the multivariate control of pine savanna understorey plant diversity

(2014) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Fire responses to postglacial climate change and human impact in northern Patagonia (41–43°S)

(2014) Virginia Iglesias et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Postglacial history of the Patagonian forest/steppe ecotone (41–43°S)

(2014) Virginia Iglesias et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

(2013) Orsolya Valkó et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics

(2013) Julie C Aleman et al.   HOLOCENE

Linking abundances of the dung fungusSporormiellato the density of bison: implications for assessing grazing by megaherbivores in palaeorecords

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

(2013) Sebastian Hoetzel et al.   Nature Geoscience

Orbital-scale climate forcing of grassland burning in southern Africa

(2013) A.-L. Daniau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

(2013) A. Feurdean et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global biomass burning: a synthesis and review of Holocene paleofire records and their controls

(2013) Jennifer R. Marlon et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2013) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE

Resilience of an ancient tropical forest landscape to 7500years of environmental change

(2012) Shonil A. Bhagwat et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Statistical modelling of a new global potential vegetation distribution

(2012) G Levavasseur et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

(2012) A.-L. Daniau et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Neotropical C3/C4 grass distributions - present, past and future

(2012) Laurent Bremond et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term variability and rainfall control of savanna fire regimes in equatorial East Africa

(2012) David M. Nelson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

(2012) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after ad 1500

(2012) MJ Power et al.   HOLOCENE

Influence of sample location and livestock numbers on Sporormiella concentrations and accumulation rates in surface sediments of Lake Allos, French Alps

(2012) David Etienne et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tallgrass prairie pollen assemblages in mid-continental North America

(2012) Kendra K. McLauchlan et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Burning for biodiversity or burning biodiversity? Prescribed burn vs. wildfire impacts on plants, lizards, and mammals

(2011) Louise A. Pastro et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

(2011) B. Vannière et al.   HOLOCENE

Fire history of a prairie/forest boundary: more than 250 years of frequent fire in a North American tallgrass prairie

(2011) Matthew S. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A high-resolution record of climate variability and landscape response from Kettle Lake, northern Great Plains, North America

(2011) Eric C. Grimm et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA

(2010) Philip E. Higuera et al.   HOLOCENE

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

(2010) S.D. Mooney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Growth of Tropical Bracken (Pteridium arachnoideum): Response to Weather Variations and Burning

(2010) Kristin Roos et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Fires control spatial variability of subalpine vegetation dynamics during the Holocene in the Maurienne valley (French Alps)

(2009) Aurélie Genries et al.   ECOSCIENCE

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Heterogeneous response of circumboreal wildfire risk to climate change since the early 1900s

(2009) MARTIN P. GIRARDIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional fire history based on charcoal analysis of sediments from nine lakes in western Mongolia

(2009) Charles E. Umbanhowar et al.   HOLOCENE

Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires

(2009) David B. McWethy et al.   HOLOCENE

Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the north-western US based on lake-sediment studies

(2009) Cathy Whitlock et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The fire history of an arid grassland: the influence of antecedent rainfall and ENSO

(2009) Aaron C. Greenville et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire history and the Global Charcoal Database: A new tool for hypothesis testing and data exploration

(2009) M.J. Power et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A statistical evaluation of the relative influences of climate, vegetation, and prehistoric human population on the charcoal record of Five Lakes, Washington (USA)

(2009) Elizabeth A. Scharf   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A test of Sporormiella representation as a predictor of megaherbivore presence and abundance

(2009) Diana Raper et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

(2009) Marco Conedera et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Climatic pacing of Mediterranean fire histories from lake sedimentary microcharcoal

(2008) R. Turner et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Testing the sensitivity of charcoal as an indicator of fire events in savanna environments: quantitative predictions of fire proximity, area and intensity

(2008) K.I. Duffin et al.   HOLOCENE

Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity?

(2008) Ross A. Bradstock   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

African Grazing Lawns—How Fire, Rainfall, and Grazer Numbers Interact to Affect Grass Community States

(2008) S. Archibald   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

(2008) J. R. Marlon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of fire frequency on oak litter decomposition and nitrogen dynamics

(2008) Daniel L. Hernández et al.   OECOLOGIA

A 14,300-year-long record of fire–vegetation–climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington

(2008) Megan K. Walsh et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Obtaining accurate and precise environmental reconstructions from the modern analog technique and North American surface pollen dataset

(2008) J.W. Williams et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire and its management in central Australia

(2008) G. P. Edwards et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

GIS-based risk assessment of grassland fire disaster in western Jilin province, China

(2008) Tong Zhijun et al.   STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Trait differences between grass species along a climatic gradient in South and North America

(2007) Mariano Oyarzabal et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE