Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Divergent fire history trajectories in Central European temperate forests revealed a pronounced influence of broadleaved trees on fire dynamics

P Bobek, H Svobodová-Svitavská, P Pokorný… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fire occurrence is driven by a complex interplay between vegetation, climatic, landform and
human factors making it challenging to separate the individual effect of each variable. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Towards the understanding the impact of fire on the lower montane forest in the Polish Western Carpathians during the Holocene

P Kołaczek, W Margielewski, M Gałka… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this article, we aim to decipher the effect of fire on the changes in the forest composition
during the past ca. 10,700 years in the lower montane zone of the Polish Western …

[HTML][HTML] Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

A Feurdean, B Vannière, W Finsinger, D Warren… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Wildfire occurrence is influenced by climate, vegetation and human activities. A key
challenge for understanding the risk of fires is quantifying the mediating effect of vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] 新生代增温情景下自然火历史的研究

刘恋 - 第四纪研究, 2019 - html.rhhz.net
自然火是地球系统的重要组成部分, 与气候, 植被关系紧密. 全球增温情景下,
自然火的演化规律和控制因素已经成为学术界的研究热点, 通过整理分析自然火实际监测记录 …

Long-term responses of Mediterranean mountain forests to climate change, fire and human activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)

C Morales-Molino, M Steffen, S Samartin… - Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Fagus sylvatica (beech) dominates the montane forests of the Apennines and builds old-
growth high-conservation value stands. However, recent severe drought-induced diebacks …

Holocene rapid climate changes and ice-rafting debris events reflected in high-resolution European charcoal records

G Florescu, KJ Brown, VA Carter, P Kuneš… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
In contrast to marked climate change across glacial-interglacial cycles, the Holocene epoch
represents a relatively warm, stable interval. However, on finer temporal scales, it too has …

Climate-related soil saturation and peatland development may have conditioned surface water brownification at a central European lake for millennia

A Tichá, D Vondrák, A Moravcová, R Chiverrell… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water brownification has long altered freshwater ecosystems across the northern
hemisphere. The intensive surface water brownification of the last 30 years was however …

Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland

A Bonk, M Słowiński, M Żarczyński, P Oliński… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Long-term paleofire perspectives provide key information on natural and human-derived
land cover changes. The last few millennia are crucial to understanding the future of wildfire …

Development of high diversity beech forest in the eastern Carpathians

M Lestienne, E Jamrichová… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim In recent decades, a surge in the number of significant and uncontrolled wildfires has
occurred worldwide. Global warming may amplify this trend and threaten most ecosystems …