Holocene history of fire, vegetation and land use from the central Pyrenees (France)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24088279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damien Rius (0000-0002-5793-9292, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Boris Vannière (0000-0002-6779-6053, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Didier Galop (0000-0003-1746-4760, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-64 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaternary Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5894 • E-ISSN: 1096-0287 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.009 |
| OpenAlex | W2060976396 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 63 |
Located on a mountain pass in the west-central Pyrenees, the Col d'Ech peat bog provides a Holocene fire and vegetation record based upon nine 14 C (AMS) dates. We aim to compare climate-driven versus human-driven fire regimes in terms of frequency, fire episodes distribution, and impact on vegetation. Our results show the mid-Holocene (8500–5500 cal yr BP) to be characterized by high fire frequency linked with drier and warmer conditions. However, fire occurrences appear to have been rather stochastic as underlined by a scattered chronological distribution. Wetter and colder conditions at the mid-to-late Holocene transition (4000–3000 cal yr BP) led to a decrease in fire frequency, probably driven by both climate and a subsequent reduction in human land use. On the contrary, from 3000 cal yr BP, fire frequency seems to be driven by agro-pastoral activities with a very regular distribution of events. During this period fire was used as a prominent agent of landscape management.
Archaeology · Bog · Climate change · Climatology · Ecosystem · Fire history · Fire regime · Geography · Holocene · Peat · Period (music) · Physical geography · Vegetation (pathology) · Aeolian processes and effects · Ecology · Fire effects on ecosystems · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography
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