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Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2795-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2795-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
Research article
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13 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 13 Jun 2024

The optimum fire window: applying the fire–productivity hypothesis to Jurassic climate states

Teuntje P. Hollaar, Claire M. Belcher, Micha Ruhl, Jean-François Deconinck, and Stephen P. Hesselbo

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Fires are limited in year-round wet climates (tropical rainforests; too wet), and in year-round dry climates (deserts; no fuel). This concept, the intermediate-productivity gradient, explains the global pattern of fire activity. Here we test this concept for climate states of the Jurassic (~190 Myr ago). We find that the intermediate-productivity gradient also applies in the Jurassic despite the very different ecosystem assemblages, with fires most frequent at times of high seasonality.
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