Paleoecology: a window into the past part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
How do we know about past conditions? Reconstructing past climatic conditions and the ecological response involves a number of direct and indirect measurements of past change. Direct measurements include ground ...

Using a Paleoecology Approach to Study Human-set Fires in New Zealand part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
This article in Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand tells the story of human effects on the environment in New Zealand, beginning with the earliest humans. × View a video from the Wildfire PIRE project ...

Exploring the Past to Better Understand the Future: Human Impacts on Fire - Past, Present, and Future part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
Changes in fire-regimes have dramatically altered ecosystem dynamics by shifting plant communities, creating opportunities for recruitment of new species, and restructuring land-surface processes and nutrient cycles. We set out to better understand the causes and consequences of fire in the past, present, and future in New Zealand, a landscape where widespread forest transitions followed human arrival.

Global Fires: How Have Humans Shaped Ecosystems Through Their Use of Fire? part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
× Humans have altered ecosystems for their benefit for thousands if not millions of years although the extent to which humans modified their environment is hotly debated. This discourse places our perception ...

How knowledge of past environmental change can inform our understanding and response to current ecological threats part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
How do we know about past conditions? Reconstructing past environments. Reconstructing past climatic conditions and the ecological response involves a number of direct and indirect measurements of past change. ...

Megafires: Rare Events or the New Norm? part of Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
A Collection of Case Studies Exploring the 'Megafire' Phenomenon × Catastrophic 'mega-fires' are creating headlines throughout the world. These fire events are reported to be larger and ...