Cited by 418Fire effects on ecosystemsClimate variability and modelsGeology and Paleoclimatology Research

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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Daniau, A.‐L., Bartlein, P. J., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C., Brewer, S., Friedlingstein, P., Harrison‐Prentice, T. I., Inoue, J. +54 more·2012·Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Abstract

Climate is an important control on biomass burning, but the sensitivity of fire to changes in temperature and moisture balance has not been quantified. We analyze sedimentary charcoal records to show that the changes in fire regime over the past 21,000 yrs are predictable from changes in regional climates. Analyses of paleo‐ fire data show that fire increases monotonically with changes in temperature and peaks at intermediate moisture levels, and that temperature is quantitatively the most important driver of changes in biomass burning over the past 21,000 yrs. Given that a similar relationship between climate drivers and fire emerges from analyses of the interannual variability in biomass burning shown by remote‐sensing observations of month‐by‐month burnt area between 1996 and 2008, our results signal a serious cause for concern in the face of continuing global warming.

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  • The spatially explicit nature of the data and the range of fire metrics used complements longer-term, less data-rich studies.

    “However, the spatially explicit nature of our data and the range of fire metrics used complements longer-term, less data-rich studies (see ref. 45 for justification).”

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Daniau, A. ‐., Bartlein, P. J., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C., Brewer, S., Friedlingstein, P., Harrison‐Prentice, T. I., Inoue, J., Izumi, K., Marlon, J. R., Mooney, S., Power, M. J., Stevenson, J., Tinner, W., Andrič, M., Atanassova, J., Behling, H., Black, M., Blarquez, O., Brown, K. J., Carcaillet, C., Colhoun, E. A., Colombaroli, D., Davis, B. A. S., D'Costa, D., Dodson, J., Dupont, L., Eshetu, Z., Gavin, D. G., Genries, A., Haberle, S., Hallett, D. J., Hope, G., Horn, S. P., Kassa, T. G., Katamura, F., Kennedy, L. M., Kershaw, P., Krivonogov, S., Long, C., Magri, D., Marinova, E., McKenzie, G. M., Moreno, P. I., Moss, P., Neumann, F. H., Norström, E., Paitre, C., Rius, D., Roberts, N., Robinson, G. S., Sasaki, N., Scott, L., Takahara, H., Terwilliger, V., Thevenon, F., Turner, R., Valsecchi, V. G., Vannière, B., Walsh, M., Williams, N., & Zhang, Y.
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Venue
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Published
2012-10-23
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
12 p.
ISSN
  • 0886-6236 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-9224
OpenAlex
W1689144894
Cited by
417
References
74
Citations by year
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22.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Natural Environment Research Council (quest010001, NE/E006183/1)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22710015)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Keywords
biomass burning, fire regimes, paleoclimate, sedimentary charcoal, moisture balance, global warming, burned area, Holocene, fire-climate relationships

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