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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE
卷 19, 期 8, 页码 1015-1025出版社
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/WF09096
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air masses; biomass burning; boreal forest; Canadian vegetation ecozone; charcoal database; modelling; paleo-fires
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC-CRSNG, Canada)
- Commission Permanente de Cooperation Franco-Quebecoise (France-Quebec)
An original method is proposed for estimating past carbon emissions from fires in order to understand long-term changes in the biomass burning that, together with vegetation cover, act on the global carbon cycle and climate. The past carbon release resulting from paleo-fires during the Holocene is examined using a simple linear model between measured carbon emissions from modern fires and sedimentary charcoal records of biomass burning within boreal and cold temperate forests in eastern Canada (Quebec, Ontario). Direct carbon emissions are estimated for each ecozone for the present period and the fire anomaly per kilo annum (ka) v. present day (0 ka) deduced from charcoal series of 46 lakes and peats. Over the postglacial, the Taiga Shield ecozone does not match the pattern of fire history and carbon release of Boreal Shield, Atlantic Maritime, and Mixedwood Plains ecozones. This feature results from different air mass influences and the timing of vegetation dynamics. Our estimations show, first, that the contribution of the Mixedwood Plains and the Atlantic Maritime ecozones on the total carbon emissions by fires remains negligible compared with the Boreal Shield. Second, the Taiga Shield plays a key role by maintaining important carbon emissions, given it is today a lower contributor.
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