Authors
Mitchell James Power, Jennifer Marlon, Natalie Ortiz, Patrick J Bartlein, Sandy P Harrison, Francis E Mayle, Aziz Ballouche, Richard HW Bradshaw, C Carcaillet, C Cordova, Scott Mooney, PI Moreno, IC Prentice, Kirsten Thonicke, Willy Tinner, Cathy Whitlock, Yanling Zhang, Yong Zhao, Adam A Ali, RS Anderson, Ruth Beer, Hermann Behling, C Briles, KJ Brown, Andrea Brunelle, M Bush, P Camill, Guo Qiang Chu, Jim Clark, Daniele Colombaroli, Stuart Connor, A-L Daniau, Mark Daniels, John Dodson, E Doughty, ME Edwards, Walter Finsinger, Douglas Foster, J Frechette, M-J Gaillard, DG Gavin, Erika Gobet, Simon Haberle, DJ Hallett, P Higuera, G Hope, S Horn, J Inoue, P Kaltenrieder, Liz Kennedy, ZC Kong, C Larsen, CJ Long, Jodi Lynch, EA Lynch, Matt McGlone, S Meeks, S Mensing, G Meyer, T Minckley, Jerry Mohr, DM Nelson, J New, R Newnham, R Noti, W Oswald, J Pierce, PJH Richard, Cassandra Rowe, MF Sanchez Goñi, BN Shuman, Hikaru Takahara, J Toney, C Turney, DH Urrego-Sanchez, C Umbanhowar, M Vandergoes, B Vanniere, E Vescovi, M Walsh, X Wang, N Williams, J Wilmshurst, JH Zhang
Publication date
2008/6
Journal
Climate dynamics
Volume
30
Pages
887-907
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
Fire activity has varied globally and continuously since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in response to long-term changes in global climate and shorter-term regional changes in climate, vegetation, and human land use. We have synthesized sedimentary charcoal records of biomass burning since the LGM and present global maps showing changes in fire activity for time slices during the past 21,000 years (as differences in charcoal accumulation values compared to pre-industrial). There is strong broad-scale coherence in fire activity after the LGM, but spatial heterogeneity in the signals increases thereafter. In North America, Europe and southern South America, charcoal records indicate less-than-present fire activity during the deglacial period, from 21,000 to ∼11,000 cal yr BP. In contrast, the tropical latitudes of South America and Africa show greater-than-present fire activity from ∼19,000 to ∼17,000 cal …
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