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Daniele Colombaroli is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The primary topics of Colombaroli's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Landslides and related hazards, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Aeolian processes and effects, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Fire dynamics and safety research.

Colombaroli has published multiple papers in well-regarded journals. Recent publications include:

  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2 (2020) in Earth system science data
  • Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2024) in Fire Ecology
  • The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records (2022) in Earth system science data
  • Shaping Mediterranean landscapes: The cultural impact of anthropogenic fires in Tyrrhenian southern Tuscany during the Iron and Middle Ages (800-450 BC / AD 650-1300) (2020) in The Holocene
  • Fire History in the Qinling Mountains of East-Central China Since the Last Glacial Maximum (2023) in Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Earth system science data
  • The Holocene
  • Past Global Change Magazine
  • Fire Ecology
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Colombaroli collaborates with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Boris Vannière
  • Angelica Feurdean
  • José Antonio López Sáez
  • Graciela Gil-Romera
  • Olivier Blarquez

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Patrick J. Bartlein;Daniel G. Gavin;Colin J. Long

  • Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

    A.L. Daniau;P.J. Bartlein;S.P. Harrison;S.P. Harrison;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice

  • North-south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses

    M. Magny;N. Combourieu-Nebout;J. L. de Beaulieu;V. Bout-Roumazeilles

  • Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Katrin J Meissner;Alan C Mix;Nerilie J Abram

  • Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: the Holocene record of Lago dell'Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

    Boris Vannière;D. Colombaroli;Emmanuel Chapron;A. Leroux

  • Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

    Boris Vannière;Mitchell Power;Neil Roberts;Willy Tinner

  • Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

    Willy Tinner;Willy Tinner;Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen;Daniele Colombaroli;Elisa Vescovi

  • A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean

    Jürg Luterbacher;Ricardo García-Herrera;Sena Akcer-On;Rob Allan

  • Long-term interactions between Mediterranean climate, vegetation and fire regime at Lago di Massaciuccoli (Tuscany, Italy)

    Daniele Colombaroli;Aldo Marchetto;Willy Tinner

  • The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence:

    Dafna Langgut;Rachid Cheddadi;Josѐ Sebastián Carrión;Mark Cavanagh

  • Fire—vegetation interactions during the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition at Lago dell'Accesa, Tuscany, Italy

    Daniele Colombaroli;Boris Vannière;Chapron Emmanuel;Michel Magny

  • The sedimentary and remote-sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe

    Carole Adolf;Stefan Wunderle;Daniele Colombaroli;Daniele Colombaroli;Helga Weber

  • Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation and fire history at Biviere di Gela, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

    Roland Noti;Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen;Daniele Colombaroli;Daniele Colombaroli;Elisa Vescovi

  • Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2,000 y in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon

    Daniele Colombaroli;Daniel G. Gavin

  • High-resolution late-glacial chronology for the Gerzensee lake record (Switzerland): δ18O correlation between a Gerzensee-stack and NGRIP

    Ulrike J. van Raden;Daniele Colombaroli;Adrian Gilli;Jakob Schwander

  • Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after ad 1500

    Mitchell J. Power;F. E. Mayle;P. J. Bartlein;J. R. Marlon

  • Species responses to fire, climate and human impact at tree line in the Alps as evidenced by palaeo-environmental records and a dynamic simulation model

    Daniele Colombaroli;Paul D. Henne;Paul D. Henne;Petra Kaltenrieder;Erika Gobet

  • 7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

    Boris Vannière;Olivier Blarquez;Damien Rius;Élise Doyen

  • Long-term hydrological dynamics and fire history over the last 2000 years in CE Europe reconstructed from a high-resolution peat archive

    Katarzyna Marcisz;Katarzyna Marcisz;Willy Tinner;Daniele Colombaroli;Piotr Kołaczek

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Boris Vannière
Boris Vannière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michel Magny
Michel Magny Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel G. Gavin
Daniel G. Gavin University of Oregon
Jennifer R. Marlon
Jennifer R. Marlon Yale University
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Emmanuel Chapron
Emmanuel Chapron University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University

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