Maurine S Fletcher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1057534 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maurine S Fletcher |
| NOMBRES | Maurine S |
| APELLIDO | Fletcher |
| FIRMA | FLETCHER M S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1854-5629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The loss of an Indigenous‐maintained She‐Oak woodland in southeast Australia
Human–fire–vegetation interactions have shaped ecosystems for millennia, but contemporary challenges of degradation, wetland loss, and biodiversity decline demand long‐term perspectives to guide restoration. In Australia, Indigenous peoples have long applied cultural fire as part of caring for Country, creating resilient and productive landscapes. A 2600‐year multi‐proxy palaeoecological record (pollen, charcoal, and sediment) from Balfour Swamp,…
Lifting the veil
Humans undertake land management and care of landscapes to maintain safe, healthy, productive and predictable environments. Often, this is achieved through creating spatial and temporal heterogeneity in a way that leverages the natural world; both amplifying natural trends and, in some cases, driving shifts counter to natural processes. However, a persistent paradigm governing the understanding of proxy evidence of past human activity on the envi…
Fighting with fire
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness
Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000-year record of landscape change from Lake Selina in western Tasmania, Australia. We analysed a sediment core for palaeoecological proxies, namely, pollen (vegetation), charcoal (fire), and geochemical data (landscape weathering). This study reveals that the contemporary landscape is a product of Palawa people's intentiona…
Colonialism and the environment
Mining has been a major contributor to economic development in Australia since British arrival in the late 1700s, with little to no thought regarding the long-term environmental consequences. This study assesses the metal pollution legacy caused by different smelting methods and mining activities during the British colonialism in western Tasmania. This region was the largest copper producer in the Southern Hemisphere during the 20th century. Lake…
Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working Group, began in the mid-20th century and reflects the “great acceleration” that began with industrialization in Europe [J. Zalasiewicz et al., Anthropocene 19, 55–60 (2017)]. Ironically, European ideals of protecting a pristine “wilderness,” free from the damaging role of …
The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia
Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania
Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia. Despite this, it remains poorly represented in the palaeoecological record. Here, we seek to address this with a >13,000-year vegetation and fire history from Stoney Lagoon, a site at the eastern margin of Tasmania’s inland Midlands plains. Pollen and charcoal analysis indicates that here, a relatively moist early de…
Can we infer vegetation change from peat carbon and nitrogen content? A palaeoecological test from Tasmania, Australia
We set out to test the ability to detect vegetation change from organic soil nutrient (carbon and nitrogen) composition in the fire-determined forest/non-forest mosaic of western Tasmania, Australia. We find no relationship between organic soil nitrogen and carbon content, despite widely varying local vegetation and fire regimes. Pollen evidence supports the role of fire in driving an initial vegetation state change from forest to non-forest, whi…
Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem
Centennial-scale vegetation and sedimentary change in Región de la Araucanía, central Chile, over the last 2000 years
Reconstructing climatic change over the last 1000 years in the mid latitudes of the Australian sector using high-resolution multi-proxy (pollen, charcoal and geochemistry) lake sediment analyses
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado, Their Pottery and Implements
The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde
The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness
Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000-year record of landscape change from Lake Selina in western Tasmania, Australia. We analysed a sediment core for palaeoecological proxies, namely, pollen (vegetation), charcoal (fire), and geochemical data (landscape weathering). This study reveals that the contemporary landscape is a product of Palawa people's intentiona…
Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania
Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia. Despite this, it remains poorly represented in the palaeoecological record. Here, we seek to address this with a >13,000-year vegetation and fire history from Stoney Lagoon, a site at the eastern margin of Tasmania’s inland Midlands plains. Pollen and charcoal analysis indicates that here, a relatively moist early de…
Can we infer vegetation change from peat carbon and nitrogen content? A palaeoecological test from Tasmania, Australia
We set out to test the ability to detect vegetation change from organic soil nutrient (carbon and nitrogen) composition in the fire-determined forest/non-forest mosaic of western Tasmania, Australia. We find no relationship between organic soil nitrogen and carbon content, despite widely varying local vegetation and fire regimes. Pollen evidence supports the role of fire in driving an initial vegetation state change from forest to non-forest, whi…
The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde
The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado, Their Pottery and Implements
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem
Centennial-scale vegetation and sedimentary change in Región de la Araucanía, central Chile, over the last 2000 years
Reconstructing climatic change over the last 1000 years in the mid latitudes of the Australian sector using high-resolution multi-proxy (pollen, charcoal and geochemistry) lake sediment analyses
Can we infer vegetation change from peat carbon and nitrogen content? A palaeoecological test from Tasmania, Australia
We set out to test the ability to detect vegetation change from organic soil nutrient (carbon and nitrogen) composition in the fire-determined forest/non-forest mosaic of western Tasmania, Australia. We find no relationship between organic soil nitrogen and carbon content, despite widely varying local vegetation and fire regimes. Pollen evidence supports the role of fire in driving an initial vegetation state change from forest to non-forest, whi…
Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania
Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia. Despite this, it remains poorly represented in the palaeoecological record. Here, we seek to address this with a >13,000-year vegetation and fire history from Stoney Lagoon, a site at the eastern margin of Tasmania’s inland Midlands plains. Pollen and charcoal analysis indicates that here, a relatively moist early de…
Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working Group, began in the mid-20th century and reflects the “great acceleration” that began with industrialization in Europe [J. Zalasiewicz et al., Anthropocene 19, 55–60 (2017)]. Ironically, European ideals of protecting a pristine “wilderness,” free from the damaging role of …
The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia
Colonialism and the environment
Mining has been a major contributor to economic development in Australia since British arrival in the late 1700s, with little to no thought regarding the long-term environmental consequences. This study assesses the metal pollution legacy caused by different smelting methods and mining activities during the British colonialism in western Tasmania. This region was the largest copper producer in the Southern Hemisphere during the 20th century. Lake…
Lifting the veil
Humans undertake land management and care of landscapes to maintain safe, healthy, productive and predictable environments. Often, this is achieved through creating spatial and temporal heterogeneity in a way that leverages the natural world; both amplifying natural trends and, in some cases, driving shifts counter to natural processes. However, a persistent paradigm governing the understanding of proxy evidence of past human activity on the envi…
Fighting with fire
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness
Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000-year record of landscape change from Lake Selina in western Tasmania, Australia. We analysed a sediment core for palaeoecological proxies, namely, pollen (vegetation), charcoal (fire), and geochemical data (landscape weathering). This study reveals that the contemporary landscape is a product of Palawa people's intentiona…
The loss of an Indigenous‐maintained She‐Oak woodland in southeast Australia
Human–fire–vegetation interactions have shaped ecosystems for millennia, but contemporary challenges of degradation, wetland loss, and biodiversity decline demand long‐term perspectives to guide restoration. In Australia, Indigenous peoples have long applied cultural fire as part of caring for Country, creating resilient and productive landscapes. A 2600‐year multi‐proxy palaeoecological record (pollen, charcoal, and sediment) from Balfour Swamp,…
Geography (13 obras) · Ecology (8 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Ecosystem (6 obras) · Environmental Science (6 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 obras) · Oceanography (5 obras)