Wildfire responses to millennial- and orbit-scale climate variability and vegetation changes during the last glacial-interglacial periods
Cui Qiaoyu
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
Abstract：Wildfire is an important part of the earth system, which is closely related to climate changes and vegetation successions. It is necessary to understand the coupling relationship between fire, climate and vegetation in natural state to understand the fire history dynamics and to predict the frequency and intensity of fire events under future climate change. The last interglacial period and the last deglaciation period are considered as best analogues for our present interglacial period. The comprehensive understanding of the linkages of fire-vegetation-climate during the last glacial-interglacial period can provide important scientific basis for maintaining the stability of terrestrial ecosystem under the background of global warming. Herein, this paper reviews the Quaternary fire studies briefly and synthesis qualified charcoal data contained in the global charcoal database(GCD) in order to investigate the linkages between wildfire, climate, and vegetation changes at the millennial-and orbit-scales during the last glacial-interglacial periods. The main conclusions are:the trend of the global biomass burning since the last interglacial period is consistent with the trend of climate change with a certain lag; the global fire activity in the last interglacial period is higher than that in the last glacial period, but with large variations; the global biomass burning increased in the warm periods of D-O cycles whereas decreased in the cold periods of D-O cycles and Henrich events; the lag of vegetation response to climate can explain the lag of palaeofire records to climate changes. However, due to the lack of sufficient palaeofire records covering the last interglacial period, the uncertainty of the synthesized fire regime for the last interglacial period is remain to be discussed. More high-quality palaeofire and palaeovegetation records covering the last glacial-interglacial period are needed to understand the dynamics of global and regional paleofire at orbital suborbital scale.
崔巧玉. 末次间冰期以来古火对千年及轨道尺度气候和植被变化的响应[J]. 第四纪研究, 2020, 40(6): 1513-1521.
Cui Qiaoyu. Wildfire responses to millennial- and orbit-scale climate variability and vegetation changes during the last glacial-interglacial periods. Quaternary Sciences, 2020, 40(6): 1513-1521.
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