Pyrogenic Carbon (PyC)

The Morphology of Burnt Dirt: A pedologic investigation of fire history across ecosystems

There's a lot of interest around fires effects on soil. What's less often discussed is how well the soil records fire by the presense of Pyrogenic Carbon (PyC). We used the NEON sites and quantified how much PyC was present, and its relative quality, down soil profiles often reaching 1-meter in depth. Turns out, fire *was* everywhere.