What the past can say about the present and future of fire

Population collapse and retreat to fire refugia of the Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis selaginoides following the transition from Aboriginal to European fire management

(2020) Andrés Holz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climatic control of orbital time-scale wildfire occurrences since the late MIS 3 at Qinghai Lake, monsoon marginal zone

(2020) Yifei Hao et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

(2020) Sebastian Sippel et al.   Nature Climate Change

Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

(2020) Matthias M. Boer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Knitting while Australia burns

(2020) Henriette I. Jager et al.   Nature Climate Change

A fiery wake-up call for climate science

(2020) Benjamin M. Sanderson et al.   Nature Climate Change

The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia

(2020) P. M. Brando et al.   Science Advances

Climate-fire-vegetation interactions and the rise of novel landscape patterns in subalpine ecosystems, Colorado

(2019) William John Calder et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

(2019) Hemraj Bhattarai et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

The contribution of fire to the late Miocene spread of grasslands in eastern Eurasia (Black Sea region)

(2019) Angelica Feurdean et al.   Scientific Reports

How will climate change shape climate opinion?

(2019) Peter D. Howe et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Historical and current fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests at Zion National Park, Utah: Restoration of pattern and process after a century of fire exclusion

(2019) Peter M. Brown et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tropical Andean glacier reveals colonial legacy in modern mountain ecosystems

(2019) Sandra O. Brugger et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Historical fire in the Appalachian Plateau of Ohio and Kentucky, USA, from remnant yellow pines

(2019) Todd F. Hutchinson et al.   Fire Ecology

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

(2019) A. Park Williams et al.   Earths Future

An empirical prediction approach for seasonal fire risk in the boreal forests

(2019) Jonathan M. Eden et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions

(2019) Emily J. Fusco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemical Evidence for the Control of Fire by Middle Palaeolithic Hominins

(2019) Alex Brittingham et al.   Scientific Reports

Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the Central Pyrenees (Spain)

(2019) Maria Leunda et al.   CATENA

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

(2018) Rob Marchant et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Quantitative attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall in Texas

(2018) S-Y Simon Wang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

(2018) N. Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

Wave of fire: an anthropogenic signal in historical fire regimes across central Pennsylvania, USA

(2018) Michael C. Stambaugh et al.   Ecosphere

Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand

(2018) E. Argiriadis et al.   Scientific Reports

Global fire history of grassland biomes

(2018) Berangere A. Leys et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience

(2018) B. Buma et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Evidence of Ice Age humans in eastern Beringia suggests early migration to North America

(2018) Richard S. Vachula et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holding the line: three decades of prescribed fires halt but do not reverse woody encroachment in grasslands

(2017) Jesse E. D. Miller et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Southern Annular Mode drives multicentury wildfire activity in southern South America

(2017) Andrés Holz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

(2017) Tania Schoennagel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late-glacial and Holocene records of fire and vegetation from Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania, Australia

(2017) Laura N. Stahle et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe)

(2017) Angelica Feurdean et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A human-driven decline in global burned area

(2017) N. Andela et al.   SCIENCE

The first forest fire history of the Burabai Region (Kazakhstan)from tree rings of Pinus sylvestris

(2017) Kuralay MAZARZHANOVA et al.   Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

(2017) Sander Veraverbeke et al.   Nature Climate Change

Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events

(2017) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015

(2016) James L. Partain et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Fire and climate in Mongolia (1532-2010 Common Era)

(2016) Amy E. Hessl et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Fire regime from 1973 to 2011 in north-western Patagonian grasslands

(2016) Facundo Jos� Oddi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Eastern redcedar dendrochronology links hill prairie decline with decoupling from climatic control of fire regime and reduced fire frequency1

(2016) Michael D. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY

First report of Cisuralian (early Permian) charcoal layers within a coal bed from Baode, North China with reference to global wildfire distribution

(2016) Mengxiao Yan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world

(2016) Stefan H. Doerr et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The relationship between past vegetation type and fire frequency in western Japan inferred from phytolith and charcoal records in cumulative soils

(2016) Jun Inoue et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Determinants of savanna-fire dynamics in the eastern Lake Victoria catchment (western Kenya) during the last 1200 years

(2016) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Cenozoic fire enhancement response to aridification in mid-latitude Asia: Evidence from microcharcoal records

(2016) Yunfa Miao et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Demographic controls of future global fire risk

(2016) W. Knorr et al.   Nature Climate Change

Location, timing and extent of wildfire vary by cause of ignition

(2015) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Millennial changes in North American wildfire and soil activity over the last glacial cycle

(2015) Hubertus Fischer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal population indices and fire in Australia over the last 20,000 years

(2015) Alan N. Williams et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains

(2015) W. John Calder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests

(2015) Ryan Kelly et al.   Nature Climate Change

Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world

(2015) Tien Ming Lee et al.   Nature Climate Change

Attribution of climate extreme events

(2015) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2015) Olivier Blarquez et al.   Scientific Reports

Past and Present Vulnerability of Closed-Canopy Temperate Forests to Altered Fire Regimes: A Comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia

(2014) Cathy Whitlock et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

(2014) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Late Holocene climate change and anthropogenic activities in north Xinjiang: Evidence from a peatland archive, the Caotanhu wetland

(2014) Hui Zhang et al.   HOLOCENE

Historic distribution and driving factors of human-caused fires in the Chinese boreal forest between 1972 and 2005

(2014) Futao Guo et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Learning to coexist with wildfire

(2014) Max A. Moritz et al.   NATURE

Palaeofires in Amazon: Interplay between land use change and palaeoclimatic events

(2014) Renato Campello Cordeiro et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando 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

The global fire-productivity relationship

(2013) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

(2013) R. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

(2013) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival

(2013) Daniel H. Mann 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

Predicting Fire Frequency with Chemistry and Climate

(2012) Richard P. Guyette et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A Review of the Main Driving Factors of Forest Fire Ignition Over Europe

(2012) Anne Ganteaume et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The shifting probability distribution of global daytime and night-time temperatures

(2012) Markus G. Donat et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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

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

(2012) MJ Power et al.   HOLOCENE

Demography and socioeconomic vulnerability influence fire occurrence in Bariloche (Argentina)

(2012) Mariana Dondo Bühler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

(2012) J. R. Marlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate impacts on human settlement and agricultural activities in northern Norway revealed through sediment biogeochemistry

(2012) R. M. D'Anjou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Holocene changes in fire frequency in the Daihai Lake region (north-central China): indications and implications for an important role of human activity

(2012) Xu Wang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

(2011) Juli G. Pausas et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

(2011) B. Vannière et al.   HOLOCENE

Late Holocene human impact on the vegetation around Mizorogaike Pond in northern Kyoto Basin, Japan: a comparison of pollen and charcoal records with archaeological and historical data

(2011) Naoko Sasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

(2011) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

(2011) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history across an elevational gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada

(2011) M.J. Power et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

Protecting Lives and Property in the Wildland–Urban Interface: Communities in Montana and Southern California Adopt Australian Paradigm

(2010) Robert W. Mutch et al.   FIRE TECHNOLOGY

Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing

(2010) S. Archibald et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

(2010) Philip E. Higuera et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

(2010) C. M. Belcher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

(2010) D. B. McWethy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley

(2010) Megan K. Walsh et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

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

Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA

(2010) Thomas W. Swetnam et al.   Fire Ecology

A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

(2009) Philip E. Higuera et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Are historical records sufficient to constrain ENSO simulations?

(2009) Andrew T. Wittenberg   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Estimating biomass consumed from fire using MODIS FRE

(2009) Evan Ellicott et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Temporal and spatial structure in a daily wildfire-start data set from the western United States (1986–96)

(2009) P. J. Bartlein et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Regional fire history shows abrupt responses of Mediterranean ecosystems to centennial-scale climate change (Olea–Pistacia woodlands, NE Morocco)

(2009) Anja Linstädter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Fire, climate and the origins of agriculture: micro-charcoal records of biomass burning during the last glacial-interglacial transition in Southwest Asia

(2009) Rebecca Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Late Quaternary vegetation and fire dynamics on Mount Kenya

(2009) Stephen M. Rucina et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Early Holocene palaeoenvironment of Ounjougou (Mali): Phytoliths in a multiproxy context

(2009) Katharina Neumann et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

WIDESPREAD UPPER TRIASSIC TO LOWER JURASSIC WILDFIRE RECORDS FROM POLAND: EVIDENCE FROM CHARCOAL AND PYROLYTIC POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS

(2009) L. MARYNOWSKI et al.   PALAIOS

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

(2009) J. R. Marlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

(2009) Willy Tinner et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2009) Marco Conedera et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire regimes during the Last Glacial

(2009) A.-L. Daniau et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

Fire in the Earth System

(2009) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   SCIENCE

Linking Forest Fire Regimes and Climate—A Historical Analysis in a Dry Inner Alpine Valley

(2008) Thomas Zumbrunnen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global characterization of fire activity: toward defining fire regimes from Earth observation data

(2008) EMILIO CHUVIECO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Implications of a 14 200 year contiguous fire record for understanding human—climate relationships at Goochs Swamp, New South Wales, Australia

(2008) M.P. Black et al.   HOLOCENE

Fire—vegetation interactions during the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition at Lago dell'Accesa, Tuscany, Italy

(2008) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   HOLOCENE

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

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

Late Holocene fire impact and post-fire regeneration from the Bereket Basin, Taurus Mountains, southwest Turkey

(2008) David Kaniewski et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

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

(2008) B. Vannière et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

(2008) S. Kro pelin et al.   SCIENCE

Limits for Combustion in Low O2 Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic

(2008) C. M. Belcher et al.   SCIENCE

Interannual variations in fire weather, fire extent, and synoptic-scale circulation patterns in northern California and Oregon

(2008) Valerie Trouet et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY