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. 2011 Dec;38(12):2223–2236. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02595.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Summary of the available historical sources and palaeoecological proxies to reconstruct fire regimes, spanning the period from the advent of fire on Earth in deep time to the modern industrial period characterized by fossil fuel combustion. The spatial and temporal resolution of all these approaches varies and decays with increasing time depth, constraining our understanding of fire regimes, especially before the Industrial Revolution.