The role of climate-fuel feedbacks on Holocene biomass burning in upper- montane Carpathian forests

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/20:84608 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10424479

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103264" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103264</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103264" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103264</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The role of climate-fuel feedbacks on Holocene biomass burning in upper- montane Carpathian forests

Original language description

Over the past few decades, mean summer temperatures within the Carpathian Mountains have increased by as much as 2 °C leading to a projected increased forest fire risk. Currently, there are no paleofire records from the Western Carpathians that provide the long-term range of natural variability to contextualise the response of upper-montane forests to future environmental change and disturbance regimes. We present the first high-re- solution Holocene fire history record from the upper-montane ecotone from the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, as well as provide a regional synthesis of pan-Carpathian drivers of biomass burning in upper-montane forests. Our results illustrate that forest composition and density both greatly influence biomass burning, creating two different climate-fuel feedbacks. First, warmer conditions in the early Holocene, coupled with generally higher abundances of Pinus sp., either P. cembra and/or P. mugo/sylvestris, created a positive climate-fuel relationship that resulted in higher amounts of biomass burning. Second, cooler and wetter late Holocene conditions led to denser Picea abies upper-montane forests, creating a negative climate-fuel feedback that reduced biomass burning in upper-montane forests across the Carpathians. Given that warmer and drier conditions are expected across the entire Carpathian region in the future, our results illustrate how future climate change could po- tentially create a positive climate-fuel relationship within upper-montane forests dominated by Picea abies and Pinus cembra and/or P. mugo/sylvestris.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-06915S" target="_blank" >GA16-06915S: Holocene disturbance dynamics in European Picea abies (Norway spruce) forests: Implications for conservation and management</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global and Planetary Change

ISSN

0921-8181

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

193

Issue of the periodical within the volume

OCT 2020

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1-17

UT code for WoS article

000579856400007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85087732734