History of forest fires in eastern Finland from the fifteenth century AD - the possible effects of slash-and-burn cultivation

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Lehtonen, Hannu, Huttunen, Pertti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1997
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Ahvenjärvi; karelia*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968369700700210; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968369700700210

The history of forest fires in two areas in eastern Finland, Kitsi and Ahvenjärvi, both of about 150 ha, is studied by dendrochronological dating of fire scars. Forty-nine samples were collected from Kitsi and 20 samples from Ahvenjärvi. The history of fires spans the period AD 1403-1994 at Kitsi an...