Journal
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
Volume 77, Issue 1, Pages 54-64Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.009
Keywords
Macroscopic charcoal; Fire regime; Human impact; Climate; Pyrenees
Funding
- French Ministry of Research, French Ministry of Culture, CNRS
- FEDER
- Western Pyrenees National Park
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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 C-14 (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 (C) 2011 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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