Publications
Karp, A.T., Koerner, S.E., Hempson, G.P., Abraham, J.O., Anderson, T.M., Bond, W.J. et al. (2024) Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas. Ecology Letters, 27, e14450. Available at: http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14450
Del Toro, I., Case, M. F., Karp, A. T., Slingsby, J. A., Staver. A. C., (2024) Carbon isotope trends across a century of herbarium specimens suggest CO2 fertilization of C4 grasses. New Phytologist. Available at: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19868
Zeichner. S., Aponte, J.C. Bhattacharjee, S.,…….Karp, A.T.,……et al. (2023) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in samples of Ryugu formed in the interstellar medium. Science. 322, 6677. Available at: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6304
Karp, A.T., Uno, K.T., Berke, M.A., Russell, J.M., Scholz, C.A., Marlon, J.R., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C., (2023) Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period. Quat. Sci. Rev. 304, 107994. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107994
Vachula, R.S., Karp, A.T., Denis, E.H., Balascio, N.L., Canuel, E.A., Huang, Y., (2022) Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and sedimentary PAH fluxes. Palaeogeography. Palaeoclimatology. Palaeoecology, 596, 110995. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110995
Karp A.T., Faith J.T., Marlon, J.R., Staver, A.C., (2021) Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions. Science. 374, 1145-1148. Available at: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj1580
Staver A.C., Abraham J.O., Hempson G.P, Karp A.T., Faith J. T. (2021) The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation. Journal of Ecology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13685
Karp, A. T., Uno, K. T., Polissar, P. J., & Freeman, K. H. (2021). Late Miocene C4 grassland fire feedbacks on the Indian Subcontinent. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2020PA004106. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004106
Polissar, P. J., Uno, K. T., Phelps, S. R., Karp, A. T., Freeman, K. H., & Pensky, J. L. (2021). Hydrologic Changes Drove the Late Miocene Expansion of C4 Grasslands on the Northern Indian Subcontinent. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2020PA004108. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004108
Karp, A. T., Andrae, J. W., McInerney, F. A., Polissar, P. J., & Freeman, K. H. (2021). Soil carbon loss and weak fire feedbacks during Pliocene C4 grassland expansion in Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090964. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090964
Lyons, S.L., Karp A.T., Bralower T., Grice K., Schaeffer B., Gulick S., Morgan J., Freeman K. H. (2020) Organic Matter from the Chicxulub Crater Exacerbated the K-Pg Impact Winter PNAS Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004596117
Karp A. T., Holman A. I., Hopper P., Grice K. and Freeman K. H. (2020) Fire Distinguishers: Refined interpretations of paleofire from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 289, 93–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.08.024.
Karp A. T., Behrensmeyer A. K. and Freeman K. H. (2018) Grassland fire ecology has roots in the late Miocene. PNAS 115, 12130–12135. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809758115