期刊
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 295, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107765
关键词
Fire regime; Microcharcoal; East Asia; Anthropogenic impacts
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- [41730319]
- [42002202]
- [XDB26000000]
- [2022071]
Fire is a significant factor in shaping terrestrial ecosystems and its frequency fluctuated over the past two million years, showing an inverse relationship with the abundance of C4 plants. The dry climate during glacial periods increased fuel availability and fire activity. The variations in Earth orbital parameters also influenced fire occurrence.
Fire is one of the most active agents in shaping terrestrial ecosystems and it has played a significant role in the complex interactions between climate, vegetation, and hominins. Here, we present records of microcharcoal and stable carbon isotopes from a two-million-year long sedimentary sequence from temperate East Asia and use it to reconstruct the long-term fire history. Our results indicate that fire frequency over the last two million years fluctuated substantially and had an inverse relationship with the abundance of C4 plants. The fire frequency during 2.1e0.3 Ma was relatively low, but after 0.3 Ma, the colder and drier climate likely resulted in much frequent fires and anthropogenic impacts probably also affected fire regime. Additionally, the charcoal time series is correlated with variations in Earth orbital parameters, suggesting the influence of orbitally-driven insolation variations on fire. During glacial pe-riods, the dry climate contributed to increased fire activity due to the overall increase in fuel availability. A comparison of our results with global fire records confirms that insolation variations modulated by Earth orbital cycles played a key role in driving fire activity during the Quaternary. (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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