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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-129-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-129-2016
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Research article
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28 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2016
Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene
A. V. Gallego-Sala
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes
Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
D. J. Charman
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes
Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
S. P. Harrison
Centre for Past Climate Change and Department of Geography and
Environmental Science, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental
Sciences, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 227, Reading, RG6
6AB, UK
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW
2109, Australia
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW
2109, Australia
I. C. Prentice
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW
2109, Australia
AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in
Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and
the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London,
Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, UK
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Short summary
It has become a well-established paradigm that blanket bog landscapes in the British Isles are a result of forest clearance by early human populations. We provide a novel test of this hypothesis using results from bioclimatic modelling driven by cimate reconstructions compared with a database of peat initiation dates. Both results show similar patterns of peat initiation over time and space. This suggests that climate was the main driver of blanket bog inception and not human disturbance.
It has become a well-established paradigm that blanket bog landscapes in the British Isles are a...
