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1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis

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17,000 years of vegetation, fire and climate change in the eastern foothills of the Andes (lat. 44°S)

scholarly article

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

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A 17,000-Year-Long Record of Vegetation and Fire from Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania

scientific article published in 2016

A 28,000year history of vegetation and climate from Lower Red Rock Lake, Centennial Valley, Southwestern Montana, USA

scholarly article

A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study

article by Colin J. Long et al published 1998 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following polynesian arrival in New Zealand

scientific article

A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

scientific article published on March 2017

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

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

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

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Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event

2013 scientific paper by Mark Boslough et al.

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

scholarly article

Climate and local controls of long-term vegetation dynamics in northern Patagonia (Lat 41°S)

Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America

Comment on "The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians"

comments by Cathy Whitlock

Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA

Complex response of white pines to past environmental variability increases understanding of future vulnerability

scientific article

Environmental history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, southwestern Columbia Basin, Washington, USA

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Evidence for Millennial-Scale Climate Change During Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 at Little Lake, Western Oregon, U.S.A

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Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

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Fire Research: Linking Past, Present, and Future Data

Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana

scholarly article

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

scientific article

Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene

Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA

scholarly article by Philip E. Higuera et al published 8 August 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Future Climate in the Yellowstone National Park Region and Its Potential Impact on Vegetation. Clima Futuro en la Region del Parque Nacional de Yellowstone y su Potencial Impacto Sobre la Vegetacion

article published in 1997

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2012)

Holocene Dynamics of Temperate Rainforests in West-Central Patagonia

scholarly article by Virginia Iglesias et al published 26 January 2018 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Holocene climate variability and environmental history at the Patagonian forest/steppe ecotone: Lago Mosquito (42°29'37.89''S, 71°24'14.57''W) and Laguna del Cóndor (42°20'47.22''S, 71°17'07.62''W)

Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change

Holocene fire and vegetation along environmental gradients in the Northern Rocky Mountains

scholarly article

Holocene forest development and maintenance on different substrates in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Holocene lake-level trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

scholarly article

Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA

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Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Coast Range, western Oregon, USA

Impact did not cause Climate Change, Extinction, or Clovis termination at 12.9 ka

abstract from the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2011

Interpreting modern and fossil pollen data along a steep environmental gradient in northern Patagonia

Land management: forests, fires and climate

scientific article published in November 2004

Land-use history as a guide for forest conservation and management

scientific article

Last glacial–interglacial environments in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA and implications for Younger Dryas-age human occupation

scholarly article

Late-Glacial Vegetation and Climate Change in Western Oregon

scholarly article by Laurie D. Grigg & Cathy L. Whitlock published May 1998 in Quaternary Research

Late-Quaternary vegetational and climatic history of southwestern Washington

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

article published in 2010

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

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Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

scientific article published in 2010

Paleoecological changes at Lake Cuitzeo were not consistent with an extraterrestrial impact

scholarly article

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

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Past vegetation dynamics in the Yellowstone region highlight the vulnerability of mountain systems to climate change

Pinus contorta invasions increase wildfire fuel loads and may create a positive feedback with fire

scientific article

Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history in the Clearwater Range, Northern Idaho, USA

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

Postglacial vegetation history of Orcas Island, northwestern Washington

Postglacial vegetation, fire, and climate history of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA

Post‐fire vegetation and climate dynamics in low‐elevation forests over the last three millennia in Yellowstone National Park

scientific article published in 2019

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

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

scientific article

Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling

scientific article

Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA

scientific article published in 2008

Simulating Historical Variability in the Amount of Old Forests in the Oregon Coast Range

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The legacy of mid-Holocene fire on a Tasmanian montane landscape

Trends in catchment processes and lake evolution during the late-glacial and early- to mid-Holocene inferred from high-resolution XRF data in the Yellowstone region

scholarly article

Twenty Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Lessons About Disturbance and Ecosystems

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UNDERSTANDING HOLOCENE FIRE-VEGETATION LINKAGES AND THE ROLE OF HUMANS AND CLIMATE

Variations in fire frequency and climate over the past 17 000 yr in central Yellowstone National Park

scholarly article

Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr

scientific article published in Nature

Vegetation and fire history during the last 18,000 cal yr B.P. in Southern Patagonia: Mallín Pollux, Coyhaique, Province Aisén (45°41′30″ S, 71°50′30″ W, 640 m elevation)

scholarly article

Vegetation, fire, and climate history of the northwestern Great Basin during the last 14,000 years

scholarly article

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

scholarly article