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Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia

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Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance

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Human augmentation of historical red pine fire regimes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

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Disentangling the last 1,000 years of human–environment interactions along the eastern side of the southern Andes (34–52°S lat.)

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Boreal forest cover was reduced in the mid-Holocene with warming and recurring wildfires

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Localized Native American impacts on past forest composition across a regional extent in north‐eastern United States

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Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona

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Dating the origins of persistent oak shrubfields in northern New Mexico using soil charcoal and dendrochronology

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History and Future of Fire in Hardwood and Conifer Forests of the Great Lakes-Northeastern Forest Region, USA

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Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests

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The importance of natural forest stewardship in adaptation planning in the United States

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Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia

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Pre-contact Indigenous fire stewardship: a research framework and application to a Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest

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Northern Norway paleofire records reveal two distinct phases of early human impacts on fire activity

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Contextualizing recent increases in Canadian boreal wildfire activity: decadal burn rates still within historical variability of the two past centuries

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Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest

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Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities

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Morphometric characteristics of charcoal produced from plants native to the southeastern United States of America (USA)

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Climatic controls of fire activity in the red pine forests of eastern North America

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Fire in Feces: Bats Reliably Record Fire History in Their Guano

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Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States

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Spatial and Temporal Pervasiveness of Indigenous Settlement in Oak Landscapes of Southern New England, US, During the Late Holocene

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Fires and drought during the Euro-American settlement period (1850-1950) in the Nebraska Sand Hills

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Reply to Oswald et al.: scale in studies of pre-colonial forests

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A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California

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Charcoal source area in a landscape dominated by human fire use

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Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach

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Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Northeastern United States

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Scale in studies of pre-colonial forests: a reply to Armstrong et al

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Comment on cp-2024-6

Dawson, A., Williams, J. W., Gaillard, M.-J., et al. (2024) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-2024-6-rc1

Outstanding achievement; a few points require further clarification and improved presentation

Dawson, A., Williams, J. W., Gaillard, M.-J., et al. (2024) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-2024-6-rc2

Reply on RC1

Dawson, A. (2024) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-2024-6-ac2

Reply on RC2

Dawson, A. (2024) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-2024-6-ac1

Pollen records, postglacial | Northeastern North America

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“Gone a Hunting”: Deer Hunting and Indigenous Sovereignty in New England, 1600–1750

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Periodic coupling of anthropogenic fire patterns and East Asian monsoon variability over the past 4000 years

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Consider bagaan : The importance of hazel to Indigenous Peoples of eastern North America and implications for sovereignty

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Tree regeneration trends in forests of the northeastern USA and their implications for resilience and restoration

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A bat guano-derived perspective on Holocene anthropogenic fire impacts in the southeastern USA

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Towards standardised development of palaeofire charcoal reference sets via muffle furnace pyrolysis for Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

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A cross-cultural assessment of Indigenous fire impacts on a culturally significant species: A case study from the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area, northern Australia

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Indigenous Burning as Conservation Practice: Neotropical Savanna Recovery amid Agribusiness Deforestation in Central Brazil

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