Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia

A Feurdean, G Florescu, I Tanţău, B Vannière… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires in Siberia are documented to have increased in frequency and severity over recent
decades. However, in the absence of long-term records, it is unclear how far and why this …

Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

E Dietze, M Theuerkauf, K Bloom, A Brauer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …

Vegetation history, climate and human impact in the Spanish Central System over the last 9000 years

JA López-Sáez, D Abel-Schaad, S Pérez-Díaz… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a review of the available Holocene pollen records from the Spanish
Central System (113 sites and 150 14 C dates). Palynological data obtained from pollen …

[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 …

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

B Vannière, O Blarquez, D Rius, E Doyen… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Variability in fire regime at the continental scale has primarily been attributed to climate
change, often overshadowing the widely potential impact of human activities. However …

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

A Feurdean, J Liakka, B Vannière, E Marinova… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale
trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long …

Forest fires within a temperate landscape: a decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe

M Adámek, P Bobek, V Hadincová, J Wild… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In Europe, fire is considered an integral part of forest dynamics only in the Mediterranean
and in Fenno-Scandinavia. In Central Europe, the ecological role of fire is largely neglected …

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of palaeofire reconstructions based on various archives and proxies

CC Remy, C Fouquemberg, H Asselin… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a comparative analysis of fire reconstructions from tree rings and from wood
charcoal preserved in forest soils, peat and lake sediments. Our objective is to highlight the …

Climate change and anthropogenic activities in Qinghai Lake basin over the last 8500 years derived from pollen and charcoal records in an aeolian section

H Wei, E Chongyi, J Zhang, Y Sun, Q Li, G Hou… - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Qinghai Lake basin (QLB) is an ideal region to explore the interaction between
climate change, vegetation evolution, and anthropogenic activities during the Holocene …

Trends in biomass burning in the Carpathian region over the last 15,000 years

A Feurdean, A Spessa, EK Magyari, KJ Willis… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Fire is recognized as a critical process with significant impacts on biota and the atmosphere.
In this study, 11 micro-and macrocharcoal sedimentary records extracted from peat bogs …