[HTML][HTML] Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene

TG Sim, GT Swindles, PJ Morris, AJ Baird… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Northern peatlands store globally-important amounts of carbon in the form of partly
decomposed plant detritus. Drying associated with climate and land-use change may lead to …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a new testate amoeba hydrological transfer function for permafrost peatlands of NW Siberia

A Halaś, M Lamentowicz, D Łuców… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vast areas of permafrost peatlands in the West Siberian Lowland (WSL) hold a
significant amount of carbon currently at risk due to human-caused global warming. The …

Landscape fires disproportionally affect high conservation value temperate peatlands, meadows, and deciduous forests, but only under low moisture conditions

M Kirkland, PW Atkinson, JW Pearce-Higgins… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Landscape fires are a natural component of the Earth System. However, they are of growing
global concern due to climate change exacerbating their multiple impacts on biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire affects boreal forest resilience through post-fire recruitment in Northeastern China

B Liu, Y Liang, HS He, Z Liu, T Ma, MM Wu - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change has increased the severity, frequency, and impact of fire disturbance on
boreal forests worldwide. Unusual fire events can trigger a shift from needle-leaf dominated …

Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies

R Glückler, R Geng, L Grimm, I Baisheva… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wildfires play an essential role in the ecology of boreal forests. In eastern Siberia, fire activity
has been increasing in recent years, challenging the livelihoods of local communities …

Land-use changes on Ob River floodplain (Western Siberia, Russia) in context of natural and social changes over past 200 years

V Ivanov, I Milyaev, A Konstantinov, S Loiko - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past century, substantial changes in land use have taken place in the boreal zone
of northern Eurasia. The consequences of these large-scale changes for the ecosystems of …

Fires and their Significance in the Earth's Post-Glacial Period: a Review of Methods, Achievements, Groundwork

MA Pupysheva, TA Blyakharchuk - Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2023 - Springer
This article presents the generalization results of studying the long-term history of paleofires
in the world and on the territory of Russia specifically. Perspective and reliable methods of …

Wildfire-vegetation-climate-human interactions in the central Taiwan region during 17.3–2.0 cal kyr BP, inferred from sediments of Toushe Basin

A Rahman, YP Chang, HC Li, LH Chung… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a long-term relationship amongst wildfire, vegetation, climate, and human in the
central Taiwan region, spanning from 17.3 to 2.0 cal kyr BP, is explored. To investigate this …

The mid-and late Holocene palsa palaeoecology and hydroclimatic changes in Yenisei Siberia revealed by a high-resolution peat archive

EY Novenko, AS Prokushkin, NG Mazei… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The paper presents a new high-resolution (up to decadal) palaeoecological evidence based
on detailed AMS radiocarbon dating, plant macrofossils, testate amoebae, loss on ignition …

Repeated fires in forested peatlands in sporadic permafrost zone in Western Canada

N Kuosmanen, M Väliranta, S Piilo… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildfires play a crucial role in northern boreal peatland ecosystems, influencing the
functioning of these ecosystems by affecting vegetation composition and biomass, peat …