Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate?
The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific bi...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:30303 2023-05-15T16:27:03+02:00 Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? Zennaro, Piero Kehrwald, Natalie Marlon, Jennifer Ruddiman, William F. Brücher, Tim Agostinelli, Claudio Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Zangrando, Roberta Gambaro, Andrea Barbante, Carlo 2015 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30303/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30303/1/grl53010.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 en eng AGU (American Geophysical Union) Wiley https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30303/1/grl53010.pdf Zennaro, P., Kehrwald, N., Marlon, J., Ruddiman, W. F., Brücher, T., Agostinelli, C., Dahl-Jensen, D., Zangrando, R., Gambaro, A. and Barbante, C. (2015) Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate?. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (12). pp. 5023-2033. DOI 10.1002/2015GL064259 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259>. doi:10.1002/2015GL064259 cc_by_3.0 Article PeerReviewed 2015 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 2023-04-07T15:21:53Z The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific biomarker levoglucosan to produce the first high-temporal resolution hemispheric reconstruction of Holocene fire emissions inferred from ice core analyses. Levoglucosan recorded in the Greenland North Greenland Eemian ice core significantly increases since the last glacial, resulting in a maximum around ~2.5 ka and then decreasing until the present. Here we demonstrate that global climate drivers fail to explain late Holocene biomass burning variations and that the levoglucosan maximum centered on ~2.5 ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland ice core North Greenland OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Greenland Geophysical Research Letters 42 12 5023 2033 |
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The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific biomarker levoglucosan to produce the first high-temporal resolution hemispheric reconstruction of Holocene fire emissions inferred from ice core analyses. Levoglucosan recorded in the Greenland North Greenland Eemian ice core significantly increases since the last glacial, resulting in a maximum around ~2.5 ka and then decreasing until the present. Here we demonstrate that global climate drivers fail to explain late Holocene biomass burning variations and that the levoglucosan maximum centered on ~2.5 ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. |
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Zennaro, Piero Kehrwald, Natalie Marlon, Jennifer Ruddiman, William F. Brücher, Tim Agostinelli, Claudio Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Zangrando, Roberta Gambaro, Andrea Barbante, Carlo Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? |
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Zennaro, Piero Kehrwald, Natalie Marlon, Jennifer Ruddiman, William F. Brücher, Tim Agostinelli, Claudio Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Zangrando, Roberta Gambaro, Andrea Barbante, Carlo |
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Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? |
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https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30303/1/grl53010.pdf Zennaro, P., Kehrwald, N., Marlon, J., Ruddiman, W. F., Brücher, T., Agostinelli, C., Dahl-Jensen, D., Zangrando, R., Gambaro, A. and Barbante, C. (2015) Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate?. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (12). pp. 5023-2033. DOI 10.1002/2015GL064259 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259>. doi:10.1002/2015GL064259 |
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