Exploring potential drivers of European biomass burning over the Holocene: A data-model analysis

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1248-1260

  Molinari, Chiara ^a   Lehsten, Veiko ^a   Bradshaw, Richard H W ^b   Power, Mitchell J ^c,d   Harmand, Peter ^e   Arneth, Almut ^f   Kaplan, Jed O ^g   Vannière, Boris ^h   Sykes, Martin T ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

^h CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Charcoal series; Fire activity; Holocene; HYDE 3.1; KK10; lpj guess; Palaeoclimate dynamics; Principal components analysis; Principal components regression

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

EUROPE;

EID: 84887412371     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12090     Document Type: Article

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