Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene

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Sim, T. G. - Swindles, G. T. - Morris, P. J. - Bobek, Přemysl … Total 87 authors
Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene.
Quaternary Science Reviews. Roč. 305, April 1 (2023), č. článku 108020. ISSN 0277-3791. E-ISSN 1873-457X
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : fire * charcoal * palaeofire * palaeoenvironments
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108020

Our composite analysis of peatland macrocharcoal records fromNorth America, Europe and Patagonia quantifies regional variabilityin peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene.Climate appears to be an important control on peatland fire untilthe mid-Holocene in Europe, and perhaps until the present day inNorth America and Patagonia. Our analysis suggests that peatlandburning is generally higher during warm or dry periods of theHolocene and the magnitude of burning is greater in warmer anddrier regions, i.e. southern Europe. There is some correspondencebetween peatland and wider landscape burning, although peat-lands are generally less susceptible to fire, which could plausibly beexplained by the persistence of high surface moisture levels and alower density of woody biomass. The most prominent example of diver-gent trends in peatland and wider landscape burning is a reductionin peatland burning since the Little Ice Age across North Americaand Europe, apart from central Europe.
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