Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies

Wildfires play an essential role in the ecology of boreal forests. In eastern Siberia, fire activity has been increasing in recent years, challenging the livelihoods of local communities. Intensifying fire regimes also increase disturbance pressure on the boreal forests, which currently protect the...

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Published in:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Main Authors: Glückler, Ramesh, Geng, Rongwei, Grimm, Lennart, Baisheva, Izabella, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R, Kruse, Stefan, Andreev, Andrei, Pestryakova, Luidmila, Dietze, Elisabeth
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spelling ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:56843 2024-09-09T20:03:19+00:00 Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies Glückler, Ramesh Geng, Rongwei Grimm, Lennart Baisheva, Izabella Herzschuh, Ulrike Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R Kruse, Stefan Andreev, Andrei Pestryakova, Luidmila Dietze, Elisabeth 2022-08-16 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56843/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56843/1/fevo-10-962906.pdf https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8394955d-beb7-49e0-9492-e83533cf376a unknown Frontiers https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56843/1/fevo-10-962906.pdf Glückler, R. orcid:0000-0003-1800-8601 , Geng, R. orcid:0000-0003-4356-4458 , Grimm, L. , Baisheva, I. , Herzschuh, U. orcid:0000-0003-0999-1261 , Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. orcid:0000-0002-6609-3217 , Kruse, S. orcid:0000-0003-1107-1958 , Andreev, A. , Pestryakova, L. and Dietze, E. orcid:0000-0003-4817-8441 (2022) Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies , Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.962906 <https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906> , hdl:10013/epic.8394955d-beb7-49e0-9492-e83533cf376a info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess EPIC3Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers, ISSN: 2296-701X Article NonPeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2022 ftawi https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906 2024-06-18T23:52:07Z Wildfires play an essential role in the ecology of boreal forests. In eastern Siberia, fire activity has been increasing in recent years, challenging the livelihoods of local communities. Intensifying fire regimes also increase disturbance pressure on the boreal forests, which currently protect the permafrost beneath from accelerated degradation. However, long-term relationships between changes in fire regime and forest structure remain largely unknown. We assess past fire-vegetation feedbacks using sedimentary proxy records from Lake Satagay, Central Yakutia, Siberia, covering the past c. 10,800 years. Results from macroscopic and microscopic charcoal analyses indicate high amounts of burnt biomass during the Early Holocene, and that the present-day, low-severity surface fire regime has been in place since c. 4,500 years before present. A pollen-based quantitative reconstruction of vegetation cover and a terrestrial plant record based on sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding suggest a pronounced shift in forest structure toward the Late Holocene. Whereas the Early Holocene was characterized by postglacial open larch-birch woodlands, forest structure changed toward the modern, mixed larch-dominated closed-canopy forest during the Mid-Holocene. We propose a potential relationship between open woodlands and high amounts of burnt biomass, as well as a mediating effect of dense larch forest on the climate-driven intensification of fire regimes. Considering the anticipated increase in forest disturbances (droughts, insect invasions, and wildfires), higher tree mortality may force the modern state of the forest to shift toward an open woodland state comparable to the Early Holocene. Such a shift in forest structure may result in a positive feedback on currently intensifying wildfires. These new long-term data improve our understanding of millennial-scale fire regime changes and their relationships to changes of vegetation in Central Yakutia, where the local population is already being confronted with intensifying ... Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Yakutia Siberia Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10
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description Wildfires play an essential role in the ecology of boreal forests. In eastern Siberia, fire activity has been increasing in recent years, challenging the livelihoods of local communities. Intensifying fire regimes also increase disturbance pressure on the boreal forests, which currently protect the permafrost beneath from accelerated degradation. However, long-term relationships between changes in fire regime and forest structure remain largely unknown. We assess past fire-vegetation feedbacks using sedimentary proxy records from Lake Satagay, Central Yakutia, Siberia, covering the past c. 10,800 years. Results from macroscopic and microscopic charcoal analyses indicate high amounts of burnt biomass during the Early Holocene, and that the present-day, low-severity surface fire regime has been in place since c. 4,500 years before present. A pollen-based quantitative reconstruction of vegetation cover and a terrestrial plant record based on sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding suggest a pronounced shift in forest structure toward the Late Holocene. Whereas the Early Holocene was characterized by postglacial open larch-birch woodlands, forest structure changed toward the modern, mixed larch-dominated closed-canopy forest during the Mid-Holocene. We propose a potential relationship between open woodlands and high amounts of burnt biomass, as well as a mediating effect of dense larch forest on the climate-driven intensification of fire regimes. Considering the anticipated increase in forest disturbances (droughts, insect invasions, and wildfires), higher tree mortality may force the modern state of the forest to shift toward an open woodland state comparable to the Early Holocene. Such a shift in forest structure may result in a positive feedback on currently intensifying wildfires. These new long-term data improve our understanding of millennial-scale fire regime changes and their relationships to changes of vegetation in Central Yakutia, where the local population is already being confronted with intensifying ...
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author Glückler, Ramesh
Geng, Rongwei
Grimm, Lennart
Baisheva, Izabella
Herzschuh, Ulrike
Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R
Kruse, Stefan
Andreev, Andrei
Pestryakova, Luidmila
Dietze, Elisabeth
spellingShingle Glückler, Ramesh
Geng, Rongwei
Grimm, Lennart
Baisheva, Izabella
Herzschuh, Ulrike
Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R
Kruse, Stefan
Andreev, Andrei
Pestryakova, Luidmila
Dietze, Elisabeth
Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
author_facet Glückler, Ramesh
Geng, Rongwei
Grimm, Lennart
Baisheva, Izabella
Herzschuh, Ulrike
Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R
Kruse, Stefan
Andreev, Andrei
Pestryakova, Luidmila
Dietze, Elisabeth
author_sort Glückler, Ramesh
title Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
title_short Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
title_full Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
title_fullStr Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
title_full_unstemmed Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
title_sort holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in central yakutia, siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies
publisher Frontiers
publishDate 2022
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56843/1/fevo-10-962906.pdf
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8394955d-beb7-49e0-9492-e83533cf376a
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