Within the sagebrush steppe, fire has been shown to affect biogeochemical properties and the microbial community composition in soils. However, there is uncertainty about the magnitude and direction of these effects, since they vary by sites that differ in abiotic and biotic con…
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Crow Furnace is a 30-minute long experimental narrative film created in the tradition of the found footage genre. It combines live action video with archival and 16mm found footage to present a historiography of the city of San Francisco as mediated through the element of fire. …
Two greenhouse studies were undertaken: (1) To assess the effects of prescribed fire frequency on AM spore abundance, species variety, and AM percent root colonization of Sudan grass Sorghum Sudanese L., between an annually burned site (#11), and a seven-year burned site (# 24) …
The dominant habitat-type of Omo National Park (ONP), Ethiopia, is grassland. This grassland supports a variety of wild herbivores and indigenous people; the latter hunt large herbivores for subsistence or graze their domestic livestock in the Park. Therefore, an understanding o…
Small-scale (2–5 ha) farmers in Sepunggur, Sumatra, Indonesia, use fire because it is the cheapest and quickest tool for land clearing. Other benefits, as perceived by the farmers, are an increased soil fertility ascribed to ash addition, soil structure improvement, and a reduct…
It is commonly accepted that several processes come into play in the formation of the archaeological record, and often the challenge of reconstructing past human behaviors and activities is dependent on the interpretation of the sedimentary context of the archaeological remains.…
The Imatong Mountain region of South Sudan makes up the northern most part of the Afromontane conservation 'biodiversity hotspot' due to the numerous species of plants and animals found here, some of which are endemic. At the same time, this area (including the nearby Dongotana …
Ecosystem transformations are difficult to reverse and often create novel ecosystems. These systems can be maintained by stabilizing feedbacks driven by external or internal mechanisms. Increasing our understanding of these feedback components and how they relate to each other i…
Globally many bird populations are declining at a rapid pace due to direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbances. Bird collisions with buildings are one major source of direct mortality. Chapter 1 examined species- and life-history-related variation and correlates of collision…
This thesis examines the material and interpretive relations imbricated in the Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) forest as a cultural landscape. Approaching this landscape, I outline and demonstrate the utility of a neo-Sauerian methodology that synthesizes Carl Sauer’s (1925) mor…