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Research article
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14 Jul 2021
Research article |
| 14 Jul 2021
| 14 Jul 2021
Wildfire history of the boreal forest of south-western Yakutia (Siberia) over the last two millennia documented by a lake-sediment charcoal record
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Ulrike Herzschuh
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam,
14476 Potsdam, Germany
Stefan Kruse
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Andrei Andreev
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Stuart Andrew Vyse
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Bettina Winkler
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam,
Germany
Boris K. Biskaborn
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Luidmila Pestryakova
Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University of
Yakutsk, Yakutsk, 677007, Russia
Section of Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
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Short summary
Data about past fire activity are very sparse in Siberia. This study presents a first high-resolution record of charcoal particles from lake sediments in boreal eastern Siberia. It indicates that current levels of charcoal accumulation are not unprecedented. While a recent increase in reconstructed fire frequency coincides with rising temperatures and increasing human activity, vegetation composition does not seem to be a major driver behind changes in the fire regime in the past two millennia.
Data about past fire activity are very sparse in Siberia. This study presents a first...
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