Spatiotemporal patterns of tundra fires: late-Quaternary charcoal records from Alaska

Anthropogenic climate change has altered many ecosystem processes in the Arctic tundra and may have resulted in unprecedented fire activity. Evaluating the significance of recent fires requires knowledge from the paleofire record because observational data in the Arctic span only several decades, mu...

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Main Authors: M. L. Chipman, V. Hudspith, P. E. Higuera, P. A. Duffy, R. Kelly, W. W. Oswald, F. S. Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-07-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/12/4017/2015/bg-12-4017-2015.pdf