Northern Norway paleofire records reveal two distinct phases of early human impacts on fire activity

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Topness, Rebecca G, Vachula, Richard S, Balascio, Nicholas L, D’Andrea, William J, Pugsley, Genevieve, Dia, Moussa, Tingley, Martina, Curtin, Lorelei, Wickler, Stephen, Anderson, R Scott
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2023
• Subjects: Lofoten; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836231185826; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09596836231185826; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/09596836231185826

Paleofire records document fire’s response to climate, ecosystem changes, and human-activity, offering insights into climate-fire-human relationships and the potential response of fire to anthropogenic climate change. We present three new lake sediment PAH records and a charcoal record from the Lofo...