Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period

Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and sedimentary PAH fluxes

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Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa

(2022) Benjamin Davies et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Hydroclimate variability was the main control on fire activity in northern Africa over the last 50,000 years

(2022) Harriet R. Moore et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The history and challenge of grassy biomes

(2022) Caroline A. E. Strömberg et al.   SCIENCE

A chronologically reliable record of 17,000 years of biomass burning in the Lake Victoria area

(2022) Yunuen Temoltzin-Loranca et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Alternative Biome States in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2020) Juli G. Pausas et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Asymmetric response of forest and grassy biomes to climate variability across the African Humid Period: influenced by anthropogenic disturbance?

(2020) Leanne N. Phelps et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Projected impacts of climate change on drought patterns over East Africa

(2020) Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile et al.   Earths Future

Determining the Pace and Magnitude of Lake Level Changes in Southern Ethiopia Over the Last 20,000 Years Using Lake Balance Modeling and SEBAL

(2020) Markus L. Fischer et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Soil Carbon Loss and Weak Fire Feedbacks During Pliocene C 4 Grassland Expansion in Australia

(2020) Allison T. Karp et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Influence of Competing Hydroclimate Processes on Stable Isotope Ratios in Tropical Rainfall

(2019) B. L. Konecky et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification

(2019) Pratigya J. Polissar et al.   Nature Geoscience

Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents

(2019) Swanni T. Alvarado et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Oxygen isotope analyses of ungulate tooth enamel confirm low seasonality of rainfall contributed to the African Humid Period in Somalia

(2019) Rachel E.B. Reid et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The roles of fire in Holocene ecosystem changes of West Africa

(2018) L.M. Dupont et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spatial patterns in the global distributions of savanna and forest

(2018) Julie C. Aleman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire in sub-Saharan Africa: The fuel, cure and connectivity hypothesis

(2018) M. Njoki Kahiu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonal variability in the abundance and stable carbon-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers in suspended particulate matter from a stratified equatorial lake (Lake Chala, Kenya/Tanzania): Implications for the sedimentary record

(2018) L.G.J. van Bree et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dung fungi as a proxy for megaherbivores: opportunities and limitations for archaeological applications

(2018) Angelina G. Perrotti et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Biomass consumption by surface fires across Earth's most fire prone continent

(2018) Brett P. Murphy et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Later Wet Seasons with More Intense Rainfall over Africa under Future Climate Change

(2018) Caroline M. Dunning et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Grassland fire ecology has roots in the late Miocene

(2018) Allison T. Karp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Informing sedimentary charcoal-based fire reconstructions with a kinematic transport model

(2017) Richard S Vachula et al.   HOLOCENE

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Late Quaternary TEX86 paleotemperatures from the world’s largest desert lake, Lake Turkana, Kenya

(2017) Amy Morrissey et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Local and regional wildfire activity in central Maine (USA) during the past 900 years

(2017) Daniel R. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Soils and fire jointly determine vegetation structure in an African savanna

(2017) A. Carla Staver et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Lowland forest collapse and early human impacts at the end of the African Humid Period at Lake Edward, equatorial East Africa

(2017) Sarah J. Ivory et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

A human-driven decline in global burned area

(2017) N. Andela et al.   SCIENCE

Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara

(2017) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   Science Advances

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

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

Fire and human record at Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the Early Iron Age: Did humans or climate cause massive ecosystem changes?

(2016) Dario Battistel et al.   HOLOCENE

Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa

(2016) Sally Archibald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate, herbivory, and fire controls on tropical African forest for the last 60ka

(2016) Sarah J. Ivory et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fires in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest: Testing the Varying Constraints Hypothesis across a Regional Rainfall Gradient

(2016) Nandita Mondal et al.   PLoS One

CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change

(2016) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   Scientific Reports

A late-Quaternary perspective on atmosphericpCO2, climate, and fire as drivers of C4-grass abundance

(2015) Michael A. Urban et al.   ECOLOGY

Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa

(2015) David P. Rowell et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

(2015) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Orbital forcing of glacial/interglacial variations in chemical weathering and silicon cycling within the upper White Nile basin, East Africa: Stable-isotope and biomarker evidence from Lakes Victoria and Edward

(2015) Helen E. Cockerton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: Anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa

(2014) Laura K. Buckles et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2014) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Characterization of the last deglacial transition in tropical East Africa: Insights from Lake Albert

(2014) Melissa A. Berke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Paleohydrology of Lake Turkana and its influence on the Nile River system

(2014) Amy Morrissey et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A moisture budget perspective of the amount effect

(2013) M. Moore et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Hydrological constraints of paleo-Lake Suguta in the Northern Kenya Rift during the African Humid Period (15–5kaBP)

(2013) Annett Junginger et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes

(2013) D. B. McWethy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

(2013) Juan C. Larrasoaña et al.   PLoS One

Leaf-wax n-alkanes record the plant-water environment at leaf flush

(2013) B. J. Tipple et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa

(2013) James A. Collins et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

(2012) Dirk Sachse et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

East African mid-Holocene wet–dry transition recorded in palaeo-shorelines of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya Rift

(2012) Yannick Garcin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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

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

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

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular records of climate variability and vegetation response since the Late Pleistocene in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa

(2012) Melissa A. Berke et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

(2012) Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data

(2012) Pascale Braconnot et al.   Nature Climate Change

Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period

(2011) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro

(2011) P. A. Barker et al.   GEOLOGY

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

(2011) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa

(2011) Maarten Blaauw et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

(2011) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

(2011) Bas van Geel et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Role of oxygenases in guiding diverse metabolic pathways in the bacterial degradation of low-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A review

(2010) Somnath Mallick et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

How does fire intensity and frequency affect miombo woodland tree populations and biomass?

(2010) Casey M. Ryan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient

(2010) Meg A. Krawchuk et al.   ECOLOGY

Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax δD and δ13C

(2010) Eva M. Niedermeyer et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa

(2010) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator

(2009) Dirk Verschuren et al.   NATURE

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics

(2008) Guido R. van der Werf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Abrupt changes in the water balance of tropical West Africa during the late Quaternary

(2008) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

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

Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia

(2008) L. E. O.C Aragao et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

(2008) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE