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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ftuniveneziairis:oai:iris.unive.it:10278/3661882 2023-05-15T16:26:54+02:00 Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? ZENNARO, PIERO KEHRWALD, NATALIE MARIE Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. F. Brucher, Tim AGOSTINELLI, Claudio DAHL-JENSEN, DORTHE ZANGRANDO, Roberta GAMBARO, Andrea BARBANTE, Carlo Zennaro, Piero Kehrwald, NATALIE MARIE Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. F. Brucher, Tim Agostinelli, Claudio DAHL-JENSEN, Dorthe Zangrando, Roberta Gambaro, Andrea Barbante, Carlo 2015 ELETTRONICO http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3661882 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000358002500047 volume:42 issue:12 firstpage:5023 lastpage:5033 numberofpages:11 journal:GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3661882 doi:10.1002/2015GL064259 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84948713124 europe on fire zennaro info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess levoglucosan NEEM ice core paleoclimatology deforestation biomass burning human impact anthropocene Settore CHIM/01 - Chimica Analitica Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia e Paleoecologia Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftuniveneziairis https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 2023-02-21T21:22:27Z 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. 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 similar to 2.5ka 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 similar to 2.5ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland ice core North Greenland Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: ARCA (Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca) Greenland Geophysical Research Letters 42 12 5023 2033 |
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levoglucosan NEEM ice core paleoclimatology deforestation biomass burning human impact anthropocene Settore CHIM/01 - Chimica Analitica Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia e Paleoecologia Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia |
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levoglucosan NEEM ice core paleoclimatology deforestation biomass burning human impact anthropocene Settore CHIM/01 - Chimica Analitica Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia e Paleoecologia Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia ZENNARO, PIERO KEHRWALD, NATALIE MARIE Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. F. Brucher, 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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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. 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 similar to 2.5ka 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 similar to 2.5ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. |
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Zennaro, Piero Kehrwald, NATALIE MARIE Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. F. Brucher, 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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