Soils in Karst Sinkholes Record the Holocene History of Local Forest Fires at the North of European Russia

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Nikita Mergelov, Dmitry Petrov, Elya Zazovskaya, Andrey Dolgikh, Alexandra Golyeva, Vladimir Matskovsky, Renat Bichurin, Sofia Turchinskaya, Vladimir Belyaev, Sergey Goryachkin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: paleofires; 14 C AMS; soil archive; pyrogenic carbon; dendrochronological reconstruction; Plant ecology; QK900-989; Pinega; Arkhangelsk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121268; https://doaj.org/article/2537069be8b34454b2996a42a42db40b

Despite the abundance of charcoal material entrapped in soils, they remain relatively less studied pyrogenic archives in comparison to the sedimentary paleofire records (e.g., lacustrine and peat deposits), and that is especially the case in most of Russia’s territory. We report here on the deep soi...