List of works - Christopher Carcaillet

1200 years of fire impact on biogeochemistry as inferred from high resolution diatom analysis in a kettle lake from the Picea mariana-moss domain (Quebec, Canada)

scholarly article

A comparison of charcoal measurements for reconstruction of Mediterranean paleo-fire frequency in the mountains of Corsica

A new, isolated and endangered relict population of dwarf pine (Pinus mugo Turra) in the northwestern Alps

scientific article

A review of Late Pleistocene and Holocene biogeography of highland Mediterranean pines (Pinus type sylvestris) in Portugal, based on wood charcoal

article

Adsorption of allelopathic compounds by wood-derived charcoal: the role of wood porosity

Allometric equations for biomass assessment of subalpine dwarf shrubs

An increase in the upper tree-limit of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the Alps since the mid-20th century: A land-use change phenomenon

article by Sandrine Chauchard et al published March 2010 in Forest Ecology and Management

Are Holocene wood-charcoal fragments stratified in alpine and subalpine soils? Evidence from the Alps based on AMS 14C dates

article

Aridity and competition drive fire resistance trait covariation in mountain trees

article

Aspects taphonomiques de la stratigraphie et de la datation de charbons de bois dans les sols : exemple de quelques sols des Alpes

Assessing paleo-biodiversity using low proxy influx

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Bark flammability as a fire-response trait for subalpine trees

scientific article

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

article

Black carbon yields and types in forest and cultivated sandy soils (Landes de Gascogne, France) as determined with different methods: Influence of change in land use

article

Calibration of charcoal production from trees biomass for soil charcoal analyses in subalpine ecosystems

article

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Changes in landscape structure in the northwestern Alps over the last 7000 years: lessons from soil charcoal

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

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

Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments

article

Debris flow burial of ancient wall system in the Upper Po River valley

article

Determination of the natural mortality age of an holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) stand in Corsica (Mediterranean Island)

article

Distinguishing subalpine soil types using extractible Al and Fe fractions and REE geochemistry

scholarly article by Brice Mourier et al published May 2008 in Geoderma

Diversity of foliar endophytic ascomycetes in the endemic Corsican pine forests

scientific article published in 2018

Eastern boreal North American wildfire risk of the past 7000 years: A model-data comparison

article

Effects of vegetation zones and climatic changes on fire-induced atmospheric carbon emissions: a model based on paleodata

article

Effets des contraintes (vents et embruns) sur la composition et la structure de la végétation des pentes drainées de l'île de la Possession (archipel Crozet, subantarctique)

article

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

scholarly article published in Nature Geoscience

Estimating phytolith influx in lake sediments

article

Fir expansion not controlled by moderate densities of large herbivores: a Mediterranean mountain grassland conservation issue

Fire and Pinus mugo Turra communities in the western Alps (Susa Valley, Italy) during the Lateglacial-Holocene transition: an evidence of refugia area

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

Fire ecology of a tree glacial refugium on a nunatak with a view on Alpine glaciers

scientific article

Fire in managed forests of eastern Canada: Risks and options

article

Fire, fuel composition and resilience threshold in subalpine ecosystem

scientific article published on 30 August 2010

Fire-scars and polymodal age-structure provide evidence of fire-events in an Aleppo pine population in southern France

article

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

article

For a few years more: reductions in plant diversity 70 years after the last fire in Mediterranean forests

scientific article published in 2020

Forest management is driving the eastern North American boreal forest outside its natural range of variability

scientific article published in 2009

Future fire in Canada's boreal forest: paleoecology results and general circulation model - regional climate model simulations

article

Geographic isolation and climatic variability contribute to genetic differentiation in fragmented populations of the long-lived subalpine conifer Pinus cembra L. in the western Alps

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Glacial refugia in the south‐western Alps?

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

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

article

Higher potential fire intensity at the dry range margins of European mountain trees

Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

scientific article

Holocene changes in climate and land use drove shifts in the diversity of testate amoebae in a subalpine pond

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Holocene changes in seasonal precipitation highlighted by fire incidence in eastern Canada

article

Holocene fires and a herb-dominated understorey track wetter climates in subalpine forests

scientific article published in 2010

Holocene tree-limit and distribution of Abies alba in the inner French Alps: anthropogenic or climatic changes?

article

Holocene upper tree-limits of Pinus section sylvestris in the Western Alps as evidenced from travertine archives

Isotopic and anatomical signals for interpreting fire-related responses in Pinus halepensis

article

Keep your feet warm? A cryptic refugium of trees linked to a geothermal spring in an ocean of glaciers

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Land use legacies and site variables control the understorey plant communities in Mediterranean broadleaved forests

article

Large herbivores control the invasive potential of nonnative Austrian black pine in a mixed deciduous Mediterranean forest

Limited recruitment of eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) under black spruce canopy at its northern distribution limit

scientific article published in 2018

Localversusregional processes: can soil characteristics overcome climate and fire regimes by modifying vegetation trajectories?

Long-Term Steady-State Dry Boreal Forest in the Face of Disturbance

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Long-term fire frequency not linked to prehistoric occupations in northern Swedish boreal forest

scientific article

Needle accumulation rate model-based reconstruction of palaeo-tree biomass in the western subalpine Alps

article

Once upon a time biomass burning in the western Alps: Nesting effects of climate and local drivers on long-term subalpine fires

scientific article published in 2022

Paleofire reconstruction based on an ensemble-member strategy applied to sedimentary charcoal

scholarly article

Patterns of Land-use Abandonment Control Tree-recruitment and Forest Dynamics in Mediterranean Mountains

article

Pedoanthracological contribution to the study of the evolution of the upper treeline in the Maurienne valley (North French Alps): methodology and preliminary data

article

Periglacial fires and trees in a continental setting of Central Canada, Upper Pleistocene

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Pinus cembra L. (arolla pine), a common tree in the inner French Alps since the early Holocene and above the present tree line: a synthesis based on charcoal data from soils and travertines

article

Post-glacial migration of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the south-western Alps

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

article

Proof of the indigenous nature of Populus alba L. in the western Mediterranean Basin

scientific article published in February 2004

Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context

Range-wide genetic structure of maritime pine predates the last glacial maximum: evidence from nuclear DNA.

scientific article published in February 2014

Resilience of the boreal forest in response to Holocene fire-frequency changes assessed by pollen diversity and population dynamics

article

Resistance of mixed subalpine forest to fire frequency changes: the ecological function of dwarf pine (Pinus mugo ssp. mugo)

scholarly article

Sedimentary charcoal pattern in a karstic underground lake, Vercors massif, French Alps: implications for palaeo-fire history

article

Soil Carbon Sequestration by Holocene Fires Inferred from Soil Charcoal in the Dry French Alps

article

Soil evolution and subalpine ecosystem changes in the French Alps inferred from geochemical analysis of lacustrine sediments

scholarly article

Soil particles reworking evidences by AMS 14C dating of charcoal

The Early Holocene treeline in the southern French Alps: new evidence from travertine formations

article

The climate, the fuel and the land use: Long-term regional variability of biomass burning in boreal forests

Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics

Tree cover and seasonal precipitation drive understorey flammability in alpine mountain forests

Tree dieback, woody plant diversity, and ecosystem driven by topography in semi-arid mountain forests: Implication for ecosystem management

scientific article published in 2023

Tree-rings, genetics and the environment: Complex interactions at the rear edge of species distribution range

scientific article published in 2021

Trees in the subalpine belt since 11 700 cal. BP: origin, expansion and alteration of the modern forest

Unexpected warming-induced growth decline inThuja occidentalisat its northern limits in North America

article

Unlimited fuel wood during the middle Mesolithic (9650–8300 cal. yr BP) in northern Sweden: Fuel typology and pine-dominated vegetation inferred from charcoal identification and tree-ring morphology

scholarly article by Christopher Carcaillet published March 2017 in The Holocene

Vegetation limits the impact of a warm climate on boreal wildfires

scientific article

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America ⬇️

scholarly article

List of works by Christopher Carcaillet

1200 years of fire impact on biogeochemistry as inferred from high resolution diatom analysis in a kettle lake from the Picea mariana-moss domain (Quebec, Canada)

A comparison of charcoal measurements for reconstruction of Mediterranean paleo-fire frequency in the mountains of Corsica

A new, isolated and endangered relict population of dwarf pine (Pinus mugo Turra) in the northwestern Alps

A review of Late Pleistocene and Holocene biogeography of highland Mediterranean pines (Pinus type sylvestris) in Portugal, based on wood charcoal

Adsorption of allelopathic compounds by wood-derived charcoal: the role of wood porosity

Allometric equations for biomass assessment of subalpine dwarf shrubs

An increase in the upper tree-limit of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the Alps since the mid-20th century: A land-use change phenomenon

Are Holocene wood-charcoal fragments stratified in alpine and subalpine soils? Evidence from the Alps based on AMS 14C dates

Aridity and competition drive fire resistance trait covariation in mountain trees

Aspects taphonomiques de la stratigraphie et de la datation de charbons de bois dans les sols : exemple de quelques sols des Alpes

Assessing paleo-biodiversity using low proxy influx

Bark flammability as a fire-response trait for subalpine trees

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

Black carbon yields and types in forest and cultivated sandy soils (Landes de Gascogne, France) as determined with different methods: Influence of change in land use

Calibration of charcoal production from trees biomass for soil charcoal analyses in subalpine ecosystems

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

Changes in landscape structure in the northwestern Alps over the last 7000 years: lessons from soil charcoal

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

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

Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments

Debris flow burial of ancient wall system in the Upper Po River valley

Determination of the natural mortality age of an holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) stand in Corsica (Mediterranean Island)

Distinguishing subalpine soil types using extractible Al and Fe fractions and REE geochemistry

Diversity of foliar endophytic ascomycetes in the endemic Corsican pine forests

Eastern boreal North American wildfire risk of the past 7000 years: A model-data comparison

Effects of vegetation zones and climatic changes on fire-induced atmospheric carbon emissions: a model based on paleodata

Effets des contraintes (vents et embruns) sur la composition et la structure de la végétation des pentes drainées de l'île de la Possession (archipel Crozet, subantarctique)

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

Estimating phytolith influx in lake sediments

Fir expansion not controlled by moderate densities of large herbivores: a Mediterranean mountain grassland conservation issue

Fire and Pinus mugo Turra communities in the western Alps (Susa Valley, Italy) during the Lateglacial-Holocene transition: an evidence of refugia area

Fire ecology of a tree glacial refugium on a nunatak with a view on Alpine glaciers

Fire in managed forests of eastern Canada: Risks and options

Fire, fuel composition and resilience threshold in subalpine ecosystem

Fire-scars and polymodal age-structure provide evidence of fire-events in an Aleppo pine population in southern France

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

For a few years more: reductions in plant diversity 70 years after the last fire in Mediterranean forests

Forest management is driving the eastern North American boreal forest outside its natural range of variability

Future fire in Canada's boreal forest: paleoecology results and general circulation model - regional climate model simulations

Geographic isolation and climatic variability contribute to genetic differentiation in fragmented populations of the long-lived subalpine conifer Pinus cembra L. in the western Alps

Glacial refugia in the south‐western Alps?

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

Higher potential fire intensity at the dry range margins of European mountain trees

Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

Holocene changes in climate and land use drove shifts in the diversity of testate amoebae in a subalpine pond

Holocene changes in seasonal precipitation highlighted by fire incidence in eastern Canada

Holocene fires and a herb-dominated understorey track wetter climates in subalpine forests

Holocene tree-limit and distribution of Abies alba in the inner French Alps: anthropogenic or climatic changes?

Holocene upper tree-limits of Pinus section sylvestris in the Western Alps as evidenced from travertine archives

Isotopic and anatomical signals for interpreting fire-related responses in Pinus halepensis

Keep your feet warm? A cryptic refugium of trees linked to a geothermal spring in an ocean of glaciers

Land use legacies and site variables control the understorey plant communities in Mediterranean broadleaved forests

Large herbivores control the invasive potential of nonnative Austrian black pine in a mixed deciduous Mediterranean forest

Limited recruitment of eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) under black spruce canopy at its northern distribution limit

Localversusregional processes: can soil characteristics overcome climate and fire regimes by modifying vegetation trajectories?

Long-Term Steady-State Dry Boreal Forest in the Face of Disturbance

Long-term fire frequency not linked to prehistoric occupations in northern Swedish boreal forest

Needle accumulation rate model-based reconstruction of palaeo-tree biomass in the western subalpine Alps

Once upon a time biomass burning in the western Alps: Nesting effects of climate and local drivers on long-term subalpine fires

Paleofire reconstruction based on an ensemble-member strategy applied to sedimentary charcoal

Patterns of Land-use Abandonment Control Tree-recruitment and Forest Dynamics in Mediterranean Mountains

Pedoanthracological contribution to the study of the evolution of the upper treeline in the Maurienne valley (North French Alps): methodology and preliminary data

Periglacial fires and trees in a continental setting of Central Canada, Upper Pleistocene

Pinus cembra L. (arolla pine), a common tree in the inner French Alps since the early Holocene and above the present tree line: a synthesis based on charcoal data from soils and travertines

Post-glacial migration of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the south-western Alps

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

Proof of the indigenous nature of Populus alba L. in the western Mediterranean Basin

Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context

Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context

Range-wide genetic structure of maritime pine predates the last glacial maximum: evidence from nuclear DNA.

Resilience of the boreal forest in response to Holocene fire-frequency changes assessed by pollen diversity and population dynamics

Resistance of mixed subalpine forest to fire frequency changes: the ecological function of dwarf pine (Pinus mugo ssp. mugo)

Sedimentary charcoal pattern in a karstic underground lake, Vercors massif, French Alps: implications for palaeo-fire history

Soil Carbon Sequestration by Holocene Fires Inferred from Soil Charcoal in the Dry French Alps

Soil evolution and subalpine ecosystem changes in the French Alps inferred from geochemical analysis of lacustrine sediments

Soil particles reworking evidences by AMS 14C dating of charcoal

The Early Holocene treeline in the southern French Alps: new evidence from travertine formations

The climate, the fuel and the land use: Long-term regional variability of biomass burning in boreal forests

Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics