Holocene fire history in eastern monsoonal region of China and its controls

Xue, Jibin; Wei, Zhong; Li, Qing; Cheng, Rong; You, Aihua; Wei, Zhiqiang; Shang, Shengtan

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.01.029

Cited by 19 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 51 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Evidence from charcoal and black carbon records has shown that the response of fire to climate and vegetation varies with different spatial and temporal scales. For example, an increase in precipitation can lead to fewer fires by lessening fire-prone weather and increasing fuel moisture (Archibald et al, 2009;Xue et al, 2018), but can also cause more biomass burning with an abundant fuel load available under a humid climate (Han et al, 2012). Furthermore, the role of human activity in altering fire is still under debate.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP

Pei

Wan

Clift

et al. 2020

Quaternary Science Reviews

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A high-resolution fire history in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 7.0 ka BP is reconstructed based on the proxy of black carbon of sediment core ECMZ on the continental shelf of the East China Sea in order to reveal the interactions among fire, climate, vegetation and human activity on a regional scale. A comparison of fire activity with climatic and vegetation proxies suggests that changes in fire activity prior to 3.0 ka BP on both millennial-and centennial-timescales were closely related to variations in temperature and precipitation, with more fire during warm and humid periods, suggesting climatic control on regional fire activities. In contrast, the significant decoupling between fire and climate on multi-timescales since~3.0 ka BP implies increasing anthropogenic impact on regional fire activity. There is also a distinct response of fire activity to human disturbance at different time scales. Long-term reduction in regional fire activity since~3.0 ka BP was caused by a general decrease in forest cover with increasing human activity while short-term (centennial-timescale) enhancement in biomass burning usually coincides with periods characterized by increasing human activity associated with population migration or technological advances.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP

Pei

Wan

Clift

et al. 2020

Quaternary Science Reviews

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…time (Yan and Wünnemann, 2014). Numerous recent studies demonstrate climatic variations throughout China and surrounding areas during the Holocene using lacustrine sedimentary records (Bird et al, 2017;Dietze et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2009;Opitz et al, 2012;Saini et al, 2017;Yanhong et al, 2006).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PAHs are semi-volatile, persistent, and ubiquitous in the environment with multiple possible sources, and therefore commonly detected in soil, air, and water (Abdel-Shafy and Mansour, 2016;Johnsen et al, 2005). The investigation of PAHs as tracers of biomass burning in past climate archives such as sediments (Jiang et al, 1998) and ice (Gabrieli et al, 2010) is increasing in the last decades (Yan et al, 2014;Page et al, 1999).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Fire, vegetation, and Holocene climate in a southeastern Tibetan lake: a multi-biomarker reconstruction from Paru Co

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. The fire history of the Tibetan Plateau over centennial to millennial timescales is not well known. Recent ice core studies reconstruct fire history over the past few decades but do not extend through the Holocene. Lacustrine sedimentary cores, however, can provide continuous records of local environmental change on millennial scales during the Holocene through the accumulation and preservation of specific organic molecular biomarkers. To reconstruct Holocene fire events and vegetation changes occurring on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding areas, we used a multi-proxy approach, investigating multiple biomarkers preserved in core sediment samples retrieved from Paru Co, a small lake located in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (29∘47′45.6′′ N, 92∘21′07.2′′ E; 4845 m a.s.l.). Biomarkers include n-alkanes as indicators of vegetation, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as combustion proxies, fecal sterols and stanols (FeSts) as indicators of the presence of humans or grazing animals, and finally monosaccharide anhydrides (MAs) as specific markers of vegetation burning processes. Insolation changes and the associated influence on the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) affect the vegetation distribution and fire types recorded in Paru Co throughout the Holocene. The early Holocene (10.7–7.5 cal kyr BP) n-alkane ratios demonstrate oscillations between grass and conifer communities, resulting in respective smouldering fires represented by levoglucosan peaks, and high-temperature fires represented by high-molecular-weight PAHs. Forest cover increases with a strengthened ISM, where coincident high levoglucosan to mannosan (L ∕ M) ratios are consistent with conifer burning. The decrease in the ISM at 4.2 cal kyr BP corresponds with the expansion of regional civilizations, although the lack of human FeSts above the method detection limits excludes local anthropogenic influence on fire and vegetation changes. The late Holocene is characterized by a relatively shallow lake surrounded by grassland, where all biomarkers other than PAHs display only minor variations. The sum of PAHs steadily increases throughout the late Holocene, suggesting a net increase in local to regional combustion that is separate from vegetation and climate change.

show abstract

“…1), as well as local wetland carr and scrub (Zong et al, 2007) at this time of major expansion of rice cultivation (Itzstein-Davey et al, 2007c;Yin et al, 2016). Collation of microcharcoal records by Xue et al (2018) shows that fire activity in eastern monsoonal China reached a peak around 2000 cal. yr BP, and was maintained at a high level thereafter.…”

Section: Human Impact On the Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

Innés

Zong

Xiong

et al. 2019

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.

show abstract

Holocene fire history in eastern monsoonal region of China and its controls

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP

Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP

Fire, vegetation, and Holocene climate in a southeastern Tibetan lake: a multi-biomarker reconstruction from Paru Co

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About