Humans and fire : Consequences of anthropogenic burning during the past 2 Ka

• The case studies here illustrate how the timing and consequences of anthropogenic interventions in natural fire regimes vary greatly across space and depend heavily on local ecological context; they also demonstrate why the cumulativeglobal effects of anthropogenic impacts on fire regimes have been difficult to detect until the past two centuries (Fig. 2). Increasing efforts to synthesize existing paleoecological records (Power et al., 2009), and combine multiproxy evidence of paleoenvironmental changes with archeological data and modeling promise valuable advancements in our understanding of coupled human-natural systems in the past.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)

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NATURAL SCIENCES

NATURVETENSKAP

Paleoecology

Paleoekologi

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