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Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-02-2009)“…It is widely accepted, based on data from the last few decades and on model simulations, that anthropogenic climate change will cause increased fire activity…”
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Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: the Holocene record of Lago dell’Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-06-2008)“…A high-resolution sedimentary charcoal record from Lago dell’Accesa in southern Tuscany reveals numerous changes in fire regime over the last 11.6 kyr cal. BP…”
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A quantitative comparison of microfossil extraction methods from ice cores
Published in Journal of glaciology (01-06-2018)“…Microfossil records from ice archives allow vegetation, fire and land-use activity reconstructions on broad spatial scales. Samples typically contain low…”
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Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-02-2011)“…A mid- to late-Holocene synthesis of fire activity from the Mediterranean basin explores the linkages among fire, climate variability and seasonality through…”
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The cultivation of Castanea sativa (Mill.) in Europe, from its origin to its diffusion on a continental scale
Published in Vegetation history and archaeobotany (01-08-2004)“…The history of Castanea sativa (sweet chestnut) cultivation since medieval times has been well described on the basis of the very rich documentation available…”
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Climate warming and vegetation response after Heinrich event 1 (16 700–16 000 cal yr BP) in Europe south of the Alps
Published in Climate of the past (27-11-2012)“…Chironomids preserved in a sediment core from Lago di Origlio (416 m a.s.l.), a lake in the foreland of the Southern Swiss Alps, allowed quantitative…”
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model-based reconstruction of Holocene treeline dynamics in the Central Swiss Alps
Published in The Journal of ecology (2006)“…1. We used the forest succession model FORCLIM to simulate Holocene treeline dynamics along an elevational transect in the Central European Alps, in order to…”
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Middle to Late Holocene vegetation history of the Upper Engadine (Swiss Alps): the role of man and fire
Published in Vegetation history and archaeobotany (01-10-2003)“…To reconstruct the vegetation and fire history of the Upper Engadine, two continuous sediment cores from Lej da Champfèr and Lej da San Murezzan (Upper…”
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Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-12-2002)“…Fire regimes have changed during the Holocene due to changes in climate, vegetation, and in human practices. Here, we hypothesise that changes in fire regime…”
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The use of mineral magnetism in the reconstruction of fire history: a case study from Lago di Origlio, Swiss Alps
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-12-2000)“…The use of magnetic measurements in the detection of fire signals has been neglected since the work of Rummery et al., (1979), yet considerable developments…”
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Insights about past forest dynamics as a tool for present and future forest management in Switzerland
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-03-2017)“…•We consider ∼20,000years of forest dynamics.•We describe the influence of past climate and land use on Swiss mountain forests.•We indicate tree taxa favored…”
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Influence of human impact and bedrock differences on the vegetational history of the Insubrian Southern Alps
Published in Vegetation history and archaeobotany (01-10-2000)“…Vegetation history for the study region is reconstructed on the basis of pollen, charcoal and AMS 14C investigations of lake sediments from Lago del Segrino…”
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Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration
Published in Biogeosciences (04-04-2024)“…Accelerations of ecosystem transformation raise concerns, to the extent that high rates of ecological change may be regarded amongst the most important ongoing…”
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Alpine Glacier Reveals Ecosystem Impacts of Europe's Prosperity and Peril Over the Last Millennium
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-10-2021)“…Information about past ecosystem dynamics and human activities is stored in the ice of Colle Gnifetti glacier in the Swiss Alps. Adverse climatic intervals…”
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Rapid responses of high-mountain vegetation to early Holocene environmental changes in the Swiss Alps
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-10-2005)“…1 The Early Holocene sediment of a lake at tree line (Gouille Rion, 2343 m a.s.l.) in the Swiss Central Alps was sampled for plant macrofossils. Thin (0.5 cm)…”
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Holocene expansions of Fagus silvatica and Abies alba in Central Europe: where are we after eight decades of debate?
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-03-2006)“…During the past eight decades contrasting hypotheses have been put forward to explain the Holocene expansions of Fagus silvatica (beech) and Abies alba (fir)…”
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Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland)
Published in Climate of the past (28-07-2020)“…Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; end ca. 19 000 cal BP) central European plant communities have been shaped by changing climatic and anthropogenic…”
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Minimum count sums for charcoal concentration estimates in pollen slides: accuracy and potential errors
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-02-2005)“…Charcoal particles in pollen slides are often abundant, and thus analysts are faced with the problem of setting the minimum counting sum as small as possible…”
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Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes
Published in Global biogeochemical cycles (01-12-2012)“…Climate is an important control on biomass burning, but the sensitivity of fire to changes in temperature and moisture balance has not been quantified. We…”
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Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data
Published in Climate dynamics (01-06-2008)“…Fire activity has varied globally and continuously since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in response to long-term changes in global climate and shorter-term…”
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