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Using the Paleorecord to Evaluate Climate and Fire Interactions in Australia

Lynch, Amanda H., Beringer, Jason, Kershaw, Peter, Marshall, Andrew, Mooney, Scott, Tapper, Nigel, Turney, Chris, Van Der Kaars, Sander·2007·Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Abstract

Burning has been a near-continuous feature of the Australian environment but has become progressively more important since the mid-Tertiary, associated with the development of the characteristic sclerophyll vegetation. In the Quaternary, the extent of burning has varied temporally and regionally with glacial-interglacial cyclicity. Burning during glacial periods was reduced in drier areas, presumably because of a critical reduction in fuel availability, but increased in relatively wetter areas where fuel levels were high. On both glacial and Holocene timescales, peaks in charcoal often accompany transitions between fire-insensitive vegetation types, suggesting that burning is facilitated during periods of climate change and environmental instability. This suggestion has been supported by the demonstration of close relationships between fire and El Niño activity. Burning has also increased progressively over the past few hundred thousand years with major accelerations around the time of first human settlement of the continent and with the arrival of Europeans. To provide a firmer base for application of paleofire records to environmental management, there is an urgent need for a spatially more-substantial coverage of high-resolution fire records with good chronological control.

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  • Even in Australasia, the long-term influence of humans on fire has proved difficult to separate from climate variability.

    “Even in Australasia, where aboriginal use of fire is perhaps best documented (54), the long-term influence of humans on fire has proved difficult to separate from climate variability (55).”

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Authors
Lynch, A. H., Beringer, J., Kershaw, P., Marshall, A., Mooney, S., Tapper, N., Turney, C., & Van Der Kaars, S.
Affiliations
  • Monash University (AU)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • University of Wollongong (AU)
  • School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia;
Venue
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Published
2007-05-01
Volume
35
Issue
1
Pages
215-239
ISSN
  • 0084-6597 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4495
OpenAlex
W2107545363
Cited by
90
References
96
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FWCI
0.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
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
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil and Environmental Studies
Keywords
paleofire records, fire-climate interactions, charcoal, sclerophyll vegetation, glacial-interglacial cycles, El Niño, Holocene, Quaternary, human settlement, European colonization, fire regimes, fuel availability, environmental management, Australia

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