Biotic controls on Holocene fire frequency in a temperate mountain forest, Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/18:00501915 RIV/00216224:14310/18:00106719
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jqs.3067?af=R" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jqs.3067?af=R</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3067" target="_blank" >10.1002/jqs.3067</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biotic controls on Holocene fire frequency in a temperate mountain forest, Czech Republic
Original language description
Mountain spruce-beech-fir mixed forests are an important type of vegetation at higher elevations in temperate Europe. We aimed to determine how fire disturbances have affected long-term vegetation dynamics and to assess their contribution to soil formation. We detected fire episodes using a soil charcoal record extensively dated based on C-14 and combined with pollen and macrocharcoal records from a local peat bog. Altitudinal shifts of the timberline during the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition seem to be responsible for an abrupt occurrence of fire at 11 200 cal a BP. The minimum fire frequency estimation based on dated soil charcoal particles showed variation during the early to mid-Holocene in response to climatic changes. A marked decrease of fire frequency since 6200 cal a BP is attributed to the transformation of vegetation from Picea abies-dominated forests into mixed Fagus sylvatica-Abies alba stands. Once Fagus sylvatica established a dense canopy a profound alteration of the disturbance regime occurred, leading to the exclusion of fire, and has indirectly accelerated the process of podzolization. Thus, the synergistic effects of biotic change are capable of amplifying a climatic impulse, illustrating the important influence of bottom-up controls on fire regimes and soil development.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10508 - Physical geography
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Quaternary Science
ISSN
0267-8179
e-ISSN
1099-1417
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
892-904
UT code for WoS article
000450371000003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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