First Spatial Reconstruction of Past Fires in Temperate Europe Suggests Large Variability of Fire Sizes and an Important Role of Human-Related Ignitions

Environmental implications of past socioeconomic events in Greater Poland during the last 1200 years. Synthesis of paleoecological and historical data

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Are natural disturbances represented in strictly protected areas in Germany?

(2021) Sebastian Brackhane et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Trends and patterns in annually burned forest areas and fire weather across the European boreal zone in the 20th and early 21st centuries

(2021) Igor Drobyshev et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Patterns of Anthropogenic Fire within the Midwestern Tallgrass Prairie 1673–1905: Evidence from Written Accounts

(2021) William E. McClain et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Multi-century reconstruction suggests complex interactions of climate and human controls of forest fire activity in a Karelian boreal landscape, North-West Russia

(2020) N. Ryzhkova et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Over 80 years without major disturbance, late successional Białowieża woodlands exhibit complex dynamism, with coherent compositional shifts towards true old‐growth conditions

(2020) Bogdan Brzeziecki et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A Dendroecological Fire History for Central Corsica/France

(2020) Sonja Szymczak et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Mesophication in temperate Europe: A dendrochronological reconstruction of tree succession and fires in a mixed deciduous stand in Białowieża Forest

(2020) Andreea P. Spînu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Post-fire beetle succession in a biodiversity hotspot: Białowieża Primeval Forest

(2020) Jerzy M. Gutowski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Did forest fires maintain mixed oak forests in southern Scandinavia? A dendrochronological speculation

(2020) Igor Drobyshev et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Culturally modified trees or wasted timber: Different approaches to marked trees in Poland’s Białowieża Forest

(2019) Tomasz Samojlik et al.   PLoS One

A mixture of human and climatic effects shapes the 250-year long fire history of a semi-natural pine dominated landscape of Northern Latvia

(2019) Mara Kitenberga et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Białowieża Forest—A Relic of the High Naturalness of European Forests

(2019) Bogdan Jaroszewicz et al.   Forests

Where are Europe’s last primary forests?

(2018) Francesco Maria Sabatini et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Climate Warming and Drought in the Bialowieza Forest from 1950–2015 and Their Impact on the Dieback of Norway Spruce Stands

(2018) Andrzej Boczoń et al.   Water

Human-induced changes in fire regime and subsequent alteration of the sandstone landscape of Northern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

(2017) Přemysl Bobek et al.   HOLOCENE

Strong Gradients in Forest Sensitivity to Climate Change Revealed by Dynamics of Forest Fire Cycles in the Post Little Ice Age Era

(2017) Igor Drobyshev et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Transition from traditional to modern forest management shaped the spatial extent of cattle pasturing in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

(2016) Tomasz Samojlik et al.   AMBIO

Long-term effect of wildfires on temperate Pinus sylvestris forests: Vegetation dynamics and ecosystem resilience

(2016) Martin Adámek et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest fires within a temperate landscape: A decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe

(2015) Martin Adámek et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing fire regimes and old-growth forest succession along a topographic gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains

(2015) William T. Flatley et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dendrochronological reconstruction reveals a mixed-intensity fire regime inPinus sylvestris-dominated stands of Białowieża Forest, Belarus and Poland

(2015) Ewa Zin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Stand-scale reconstruction of late Holocene forest succession on the Gdańsk Upland (N. Poland) based on integrated palynological and macrofossil data from paired sites

(2015) Anna Pędziszewska et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The fire frequency-severity relationship and the legacy of fire suppression in California forests

(2015) Zachary L. Steel et al.   Ecosphere

Multi-century reconstruction of fire activity in Northern European boreal forest suggests differences in regional fire regimes and their sensitivity to climate

(2014) Igor Drobyshev et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Strong anthropogenic signals in historic forest fire regime: a detailed spatiotemporal case study from south-central Norway

(2013) Ken Olaf Storaunet et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Can scar-based fire history reconstructions be biased? An experimental study in boreal Scots pine

(2013) Aura Piha et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Dendrochronology-based fire history of Pinus nigra forests in Mount Taygetos, Southern Greece

(2013) Anastasia Christopoulou et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

(2013) S. L. Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Unusual vegetation stability in a lowland pine forest area (Doksy region, Czech Republic)

(2012) Jan Novák et al.   HOLOCENE

Low- to moderate-severity historical fires promoted high tree growth in a boreal Scots pine forest of Norway

(2012) Ylva-Li Blanck et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Statistical mapping of tree species over Europe

(2011) D. J. Brus et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Multi-scale controls of historical forest-fire regimes: new insights from fire-scar networks

(2011) Donald A Falk et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

The frequency of forest fires in Scots pine stands of Tuva, Russia

(2010) G A Ivanova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A 350-year tree-ring fire record from Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland: implications for Central European lowland fire history

(2010) Mats Niklasson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fluctuating ungulate density shapes tree recruitment in natural stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

(2010) Dries P.J. Kuijper et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Spatially and Temporally Variable Fire Regime on Rincon Peak, Arizona, USA

(2010) Jose M. Iniguez et al.   Fire Ecology

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

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Fire history and fire–climate relationships along a fire regime gradient in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed, NM, USA

(2009) Ellis Q. Margolis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

(2009) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Potentials and limitations for human control over historic fire regimes in the boreal forest

(2007) A. Granstrom et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES