Analyses – International Paleofire Network

Assessing changes in global fire regimes

By Elisabeth Dietze February 26, 2024Analyses, PapersNo Comments

A recent study by Sara Sayedi et al. 2024 published in Fire Ecology (DOI 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9) delves into global fire regime changes and their potential impact on various ecosystem services. Collaborating…

GCD 4.0.2 and paleofire 1.2.2

By admin May 3, 2018Analyses

We are please to announce that the GCD and paleofire R packages have been updated to their 4.0.2 and 1.2.2 versions, respectively. GCD major update from 3.X.X to 4.X.X version…

Perspective: Sparking New Opportunities for Charcoal-Based Fire History Reconstructions

By admin February 27, 2018Analyses, Papers

We are happy to share the last GPWG2 paper published as a perspective in Fire. This perspective is a product of the last GPWG2 workshop held in Montréal October 2017. We…

Biomass Burning on the Rise Again

By admin June 3, 2016Analyses, GCD v3, Papers

Levels of biomass burning in parts of the world are now higher than at any time in the past 22,000 years, according to our most recent fire history reconstructions from the…

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

By Boris Vannière December 8, 2015Analyses

Highlights: • 18 southern European charcoal records document 16,000 years of fire regime changes. • Since the Neolithic, land uses have artificially maintained high fire frequencies. • Human-induced decreases in…

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment charcoal records to improve data-model comparisons

By admin November 18, 2015Analyses

Abstract. The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records…

paleofire: An R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass burning

By admin November 18, 2014Analyses

Abstract: We describe a new R package, paleofire, for analysis and synthesis of charcoal time series, such as those contained in the Global Charcoal Database (GCD), that are used to reconstruct…

A 21 000-Year History of Fire (Power, 2013)

By admin November 16, 2013Analyses, GCD v2

This chapter provides a global perspective on palaeofire activity through the analysis of over 650 stratigraphic sedimentary charcoal records spanning the last 21000 years. Regional time series analysis provides empirical…

Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP) (Vannière et al. 2011)

By admin November 16, 2013Analyses, GCD v3

A mid- to late-Holocene synthesis of fire activity from the Mediterranean basin explores the linkages among fire, climate variability and seasonality through several climatic and ecological transitions. Regional fire histories…

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes (Daniau et al. 2012)

By admin November 16, 2012Analyses, GCD v2

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 analyze sedimentary charcoal records to…