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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3225-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3225-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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03 Jun 2016
Research article |
| 03 Jun 2016
Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Ryan Kelly
Neptune and Company, Inc., Lakewood, CO, USA
Anne-Laure Daniau
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC),
Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5805, Université de Bordeaux, 33615 Pessac cedex, France
Boris Vannière
Chrono-environnement UMR6249 and MSHE USR3124, CNRS, Univ. Bourgogne
Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
Mitchell J. Power
Department of Geography, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Patrick Bartlein
Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Philip Higuera
College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, USA
Olivier Blarquez
Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Simon Brewer
Department of Geography, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Tim Brücher
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg
20, Kiel, Germany
Angelica Feurdean
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Graciela Gil Romera
IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Virginia Iglesias
Chrono-environnement UMR6249 and MSHE USR3124, CNRS, Univ. Bourgogne
Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
S. Yoshi Maezumi
Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Brian Magi
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA
Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi
Environment Department, University of York, York, UK
Tonishtan Zhihai
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Key Laboratory of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics,
Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710075, PR China
Data sets
paleofire: An R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass burning O. Blarquez, B. Vannière, J. R. Marlon, A.-L. Daniau, M. J. Power, S. Brewer, and P. J. Bartlein http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300414001861
Short summary
We reconstruct spatiotemporal variations in biomass burning since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) using the Global Charcoal Database version 3 (including 736 records) and a method to grid the data. LGM to late Holocene burning broadly tracks global and regional climate changes over that interval. Human activities increase fire in the 1800s and then reduce it for most of the 20th century. Burning is now rapidly increasing, particularly in western North America and southeastern Australia.
We reconstruct spatiotemporal variations in biomass burning since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)...
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