Microcharcoal concentration and elongation, and age model of sediment core MD96-2098
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| author | Daniau, Anne-Laure Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda Martinez, Philippe Urrego, Dunia H Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane Desprat, Stéphanie Marlon, Jennifer R |
| author_facet | Daniau, Anne-Laure Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda Martinez, Philippe Urrego, Dunia H Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane Desprat, Stéphanie Marlon, Jennifer R |
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| contents | Although grassland and savanna occupy only a quarter of the world's vegetation, burning in these ecosystems accounts for roughly half the global carbon emissions from fire. However, the processes that govern changes in grassland burning are poorly understood, particularly on time scales beyond satellite records. We analyzed microcharcoal, sediments, and geochemistry in a high-resolution marine sediment core off Namibia to identify the processes that have controlled biomass burning in southern African grassland ecosystems under large, multimillennial-scale climate changes. Six fire cycles occurred during the past 170,000 y in southern Africa that correspond both in timing and magnitude to the precessional forcing of north-south shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Contrary to the conventional expectation that fire increases with higher temperatures and increased drought, we found that wetter and cooler climates cause increased burning in the study region, owing to a shift in rainfall amount and seasonality (and thus vegetation flammability). We also show that charcoal morphology (i.e., the particle's length-to-width ratio) can be used to reconstruct changes in fire activity as well as biome shifts over time. Our results provide essential context for understanding current and future grassland-fire dynamics and their associated carbon emissions. |
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| spellingShingle | Microcharcoal concentration and elongation, and age model of sediment core MD96-2098 Daniau, Anne-Laure Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda Martinez, Philippe Urrego, Dunia H Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane Desprat, Stéphanie Marlon, Jennifer R CALYPSO; Calypso Corer; IMAGES; IMAGES II; International Marine Global Change Study; Lüderitz Transect; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD105; MD962098; MD96-2098 Although grassland and savanna occupy only a quarter of the world's vegetation, burning in these ecosystems accounts for roughly half the global carbon emissions from fire. However, the processes that govern changes in grassland burning are poorly understood, particularly on time scales beyond satellite records. We analyzed microcharcoal, sediments, and geochemistry in a high-resolution marine sediment core off Namibia to identify the processes that have controlled biomass burning in southern African grassland ecosystems under large, multimillennial-scale climate changes. Six fire cycles occurred during the past 170,000 y in southern Africa that correspond both in timing and magnitude to the precessional forcing of north-south shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Contrary to the conventional expectation that fire increases with higher temperatures and increased drought, we found that wetter and cooler climates cause increased burning in the study region, owing to a shift in rainfall amount and seasonality (and thus vegetation flammability). We also show that charcoal morphology (i.e., the particle's length-to-width ratio) can be used to reconstruct changes in fire activity as well as biome shifts over time. Our results provide essential context for understanding current and future grassland-fire dynamics and their associated carbon emissions. |
| title | Microcharcoal concentration and elongation, and age model of sediment core MD96-2098 |
| topic | CALYPSO; Calypso Corer; IMAGES; IMAGES II; International Marine Global Change Study; Lüderitz Transect; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD105; MD962098; MD96-2098 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.845377 |