Colin J. Long

TL;DR: Sedimentary charcoal accumulation rates are used to construct long-term variations in fire during the past 3,000 y in the American West and compare this record to independent fire-history data from historical records and fire scars, which show a forest “fire deficit” attributable to the combined effects of human activities, ecological, and climate changes.

TL;DR: High-resolution analysis of macroscopic charcoal in sediment cores from Little Lake was used to reconstruct the fire history of the last 9000 years, finding increases in allochthonous sedimentation increased the delivery of secondary charcoal to the site.

TL;DR: The authors used 35 charcoal and pollen records to assess how fire regimes in North America changed during the last glacial-interglacial transition (15 to 10 ka), a time of large and rapid climate changes.

TL;DR: This article analyzed sedimentary charcoal records to show that the changes in fire regime over the past 21,000 yrs are predictable from changes in regional climates and showed that fire increases monotonically with changes in temperature and peaks at intermediate moisture levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a landscape age-class demographics simulator (LADS) to model historical variabil-ity in the amount of old-growth and late-successional forest in the Oregon Coast Range over the past 3,000 years.