Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia
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In the last 2000 years, the dominant effect of climate on global fire activity has increasingly been influenced by human land use.
“Regarding the last 2000 years, however, Marlon et al.’s (2008) charcoal analyses show that the dominant effect of climate on fire activity globally has increasingly been influenced by human land use.”
From The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011) · cites this paper as Marlon et al., 2008
Human impacts have acted to decouple the fire-climate signal in recent years, as corroborated by this spatial analysis and meta-analyses of charcoal records.
“This spatial analysis corroborates meta-analyses of charcoal records, which suggest that HIs have acted to decouple the fire–climate signal in recent years (44).”
From Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes (2013) · cites this paper as [44]
Most continental to global reviews of the Holocene sedimentary charcoal record have concluded that fire activity is most strongly correlated with climate variability and suggest that anthropogenic burning had only local effects on land cover.
“Most continental to global reviews of the Holocene sedimentary charcoal record have concluded that fire activity is most strongly correlated with climate variability and suggest that anthropogenic burning had only local effects on land cover (52, 53).”
From Used planet: a global history (2013) · cites this paper as [53]
Combustion processes often leave signs of land use and related human activities, including enhanced fire rates and forest clearing and the preindustrial use of harvested biomass for fuel.
“Combustion processes often leave signs of land use and related human activities, including enhanced fire rates and forest clearing (122) and the preindustrial use of harvested biomass for fuel (53, 117).”
From Used planet: a global history (2013) · cites this paper as [53]
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- Authors
- Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P. J., Carcaillet, C., Gavin, D. G., Harrison, S. P., Higuera, P. E., Joos, F., Power, M. J., & Prentice, I. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Oregon (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Montana State University (US)
- University of Bern (CH)
- University of Utah (US)
- Corresponding author
- Marlon, J. R.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2008-09-21
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 697-702
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2101956016
- Cited by
- 823
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 38.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2009-02-23)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- CentAUR (University of Reading) (acceptedVersion)
- BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Environment Research Council (quest010001)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Keywords
- biomass burning, forest fires, sedimentary charcoal, paleoclimate, human population growth, land use change, grazing, fire management, global cooling, climate change, anthropogenic fire, Holocene
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