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AUTHOR
Anna Pędziszewska
Holocene fires in the central European lowlands and the role of humans
International audience; A major debate concerns the questions of when and to what extent humans affected regional landscapes, especially land cover and associated geomorphological dynamics, significantly beyond natural variability. Fire is both, a natural component of many climate zones and ecosystems around the globe and also closely related to human land cover change. Humans clearly affected natural fire regimes and landscapes in the most recent centuries, acting as prime ignition triggers and later fire suppressors, while Holocene trends in sedimentary charcoal have been mainly associated with climatic factors and partly with Neolithic land cover change. However, little is known since wh…
ESM_Figure_S1_The_results_of_the_SiZer_analyses_of_Alnus_pollen_curves_in_selected_sites_in_Poland – Supplemental material for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications
Supplemental material, ESM_Figure_S1_The_results_of_the_SiZer_analyses_of_Alnus_pollen_curves_in_selected_sites_in_Poland for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications by Małgorzata Latałowa, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Michał Słowiński, Anna Pędziszewska, Agnieszka M NoryŚkiewicz, Marcelina Zimny, Milena Obremska, Florian Ott, Normunds Stivrins, Leena Pasanen, Liisa Ilvonen, Lasse Holmström and Heikki Seppä in The Holocene
Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S2 – Supplemental material for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications
Supplemental material, Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S2 for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications by Małgorzata Latałowa, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Michał Słowiński, Anna Pędziszewska, Agnieszka M NoryŚkiewicz, Marcelina Zimny, Milena Obremska, Florian Ott, Normunds Stivrins, Leena Pasanen, Liisa Ilvonen, Lasse Holmström and Heikki Seppä in The Holocene
The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2
The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land cover, and land use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossil pollen found in Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout the Eurasian region. The EPD is in turn part of the rapidly growing Neotoma database, which is now the primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes version 2 of the EMPD in which the number of samples held in the database has been increased by 60% from 4826 to…
Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe
Abstract Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and subcontinental fire regimes, human-induced fires are prominent mainly on a local scale. Furthermore, the basic assumption that relates humans and fire regimes in terms of population densities, suggesting that few human-induced fires should occur in periods and areas of low population density, is currently debated. Here, we analyze human-fire relationships throughout the Holocene and discuss how and to what extent human-driven fires affected the landscape transformation in the Central European Lowlands (CEL). W…
Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S1 – Supplemental material for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications
Supplemental material, Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S1 for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications by Małgorzata Latałowa, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Michał Słowiński, Anna Pędziszewska, Agnieszka M NoryŚkiewicz, Marcelina Zimny, Milena Obremska, Florian Ott, Normunds Stivrins, Leena Pasanen, Liisa Ilvonen, Lasse Holmström and Heikki Seppä in The Holocene
Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S3 – Supplemental material for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications
Supplemental material, Latalowa_M_et_al._ESM_Table_S3 for Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications by Małgorzata Latałowa, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Michał Słowiński, Anna Pędziszewska, Agnieszka M NoryŚkiewicz, Marcelina Zimny, Milena Obremska, Florian Ott, Normunds Stivrins, Leena Pasanen, Liisa Ilvonen, Lasse Holmström and Heikki Seppä in The Holocene
Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe - The event ecology, possible causes and implications
The study, based on the examination of 70 published and unpublished pollen profiles from Poland and supplementary data from the surrounding regions, shows that an abrupt, episodic Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE was a much more widespread event than has been previously reported, spanning large areas of the temperate and boreal zones in Europe. The data from Poland suggest that the decline was roughly synchronous and most likely occurred between the 9th and 10th centuries, with strong indications for the 10th century. The pollen data indicate that human impacts were not a major factor in the event. Instead, we hypothesize that one or a series of abrupt climatic…