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13,000 Years of Fire History Derived From Soil Charcoal in a British...
ABSTRACT Little is known regarding the fire history of high-latitude coastal temperate rain forests in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of North America. While reconstructing... -
Late Holocene Glacial Activity at Bromley Glacier, Cambria Icefield,...
ABSTRACT Retreating and downwasting glaciers in the British Columbia Coast Mountains are exposing the remains of forests buried during Holocene-age glacial advances. Despite... -
Intertidal Resource Use Over Millennia Enhances Forest Productivity
Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect,... -
Ecological Legacies of Anthropogenic Burning in a British Columbia Coastal...
ABSTRACT Aim: Few long-term fire histories have been reconstructed in coastal temperate rain forests, and little is known regarding the spatial and temporal characteristics of... -
Ecological Legacies of Fire Detected Using Plot-Level Measurements and LiDAR...
ABSTRACT Vegetation succession following fire disturbances has long been of interest in ecology, but the evolution of landscape pattern and structure following low-severity... -
A Forest in Transition: The Role of Small-Scale Disturbances
ABSTRACT Large and small scale natural disturbances shape and define characteristics of forest stands. This research examines the response of a western hemlock stand following... -
Seven Hundred Years of Human-Driven and Climate-Influenced Fire Activity in...
ABSTRACT While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire... -
Fire Exclusion Destroys Habitats for At-Risk Species in a British Columbia...
ABSTRACT Fire exclusion and suppression has altered the composition and structure of Garry oak and associated ecosystems in British Columbia. The absence of frequent low...