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Environmental Research Letters, volume 17, issue 2, pages 25004

Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia

Novenko Elena Yu 1, 2, 3
Kupryanov Dmitry A 1, 3
Mazei Natalia G. 1
Prokushkin Anatoly S 4, 5
Phelps Leanne N. 6
Buri Aline 7
Davis Basil A S 7
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2022-01-26
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
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Impact factor6.7
ISSN17489326
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Environmental Science
Abstract

Recent climate change in Siberia is increasing the probability of dangerous forest fires. The development of effective measures to mitigate and prevent fires is impossible without an understanding of long-term fire dynamics. This paper presents the first multi-site palaeo-fire reconstruction based on macroscopic charcoal data from peat and lake sediment cores located in different landscapes across the permafrost area of central Siberia. The obtained results show similar temporal patterns of charcoal accumulation rates in the cores under study, and near synchronous changes in fire regimes. The paleo-fire record revealed moderate biomass burning between 3.4 and 2.6 ka BP, followed by the period of lower burning occurring from 2.6 to 1.7 ka BP that coincided with regional climate cooling and moistening. Minimal fire activity was also observed during the Little Ice Age (0.7–0.25 ka BP). Fire frequencies increased during the interval from 1.7 to 0.7 ka BP and appears to be partly synchronous with climate warming during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Regional reconstructions of long-term fire history show that recent fires are unprecedented during the late Holocene, with modern high biomass burning lying outside millennial and centennial variability of the last 3400 years.

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Novenko E. Yu. et al. Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia // Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17. No. 2. p. 25004.
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Novenko E. Yu., Kupryanov D. A., Mazei N. G., Prokushkin A. S., Phelps L. N., Buri A., Davis B. A. S. Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia // Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17. No. 2. p. 25004.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4b53
UR - https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1748-9326%2Fac4b53
TI - Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia
T2 - Environmental Research Letters
AU - Novenko, Elena Yu
AU - Kupryanov, Dmitry A
AU - Mazei, Natalia G.
AU - Prokushkin, Anatoly S
AU - Phelps, Leanne N.
AU - Buri, Aline
AU - Davis, Basil A S
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/01/26 00:00:00
PB - IOP Publishing
SP - 25004
IS - 2
VL - 17
SN - 1748-9326
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@article{2022_Novenko,
author = {Elena Yu Novenko and Dmitry A Kupryanov and Natalia G. Mazei and Anatoly S Prokushkin and Leanne N. Phelps and Aline Buri and Basil A S Davis},
title = {Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia},
journal = {Environmental Research Letters},
year = {2022},
volume = {17},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
month = {jan},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1748-9326%2Fac4b53},
number = {2},
pages = {25004},
doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/ac4b53}
}
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Novenko, Elena Yu., et al. “Evidence that modern fires may be unprecedented during the last 3400 years in permafrost zone of Central Siberia, Russia.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, Jan. 2022, p. 25004. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1748-9326%2Fac4b53.
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