Human-induced changes in fire regime and subsequent alteration of the sandstone landscape of Northern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F18%3A00494204" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/18:00494204 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/18:10388694
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617729443" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617729443</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617729443" target="_blank" >10.1177/0959683617729443</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human-induced changes in fire regime and subsequent alteration of the sandstone landscape of Northern Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Original language description
Multiproxy palaeoecological evidence from a sandstone region in northern Czech Republic was collected to explore the impact of fire disturbances on the decline of the broadleaved forests during the Late Bronze Age (3250–3050 cal. BP). It has been hypothesized that human-accelerated soil leaching affected the nutrient availability in the sandstone area, thus promoting the expansion of oligotrophic-adapted plant communities in the late-Holocene. Rapid compositional changes in the pollen assemblage were documented during the Late Bronze Age period, suggesting vegetation responded to increased fire disturbances. The human influence on the fire regime is implied by the short-term increase in cereal pollen concurrent with a major fire event, indicating possible use of slash-and- burn cultivation by Late Bronze societies. Our study documents, for the first time, the intentional, human-caused biomass burning from densely forested areas of Northern Bohemian sandstone region. Our results imply that increased rate of fire disturbances contributed to the Late Bronze Age transformation of broadleaved forests to oligotrophic forest communities of late-Holocene.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
10618 - Ecology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-22658S" target="_blank" >GA14-22658S: Fire in postglacial Central Europe: neglected historical and present effect in forest dynamics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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