Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1543-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1543-2018
Research article
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23 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2018

Fire, vegetation, and Holocene climate in a southeastern Tibetan lake: a multi-biomarker reconstruction from Paru Co

Alice Callegaro, Dario Battistel, Natalie M. Kehrwald, Felipe Matsubara Pereira, Torben Kirchgeorg, Maria del Carmen Villoslada Hidalgo, Broxton W. Bird, and Carlo Barbante

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Jul 2018) by Emily Dearing Crampton Flood
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Sep 2018) by Emily Dearing Crampton Flood
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Holocene fires and vegetation are reconstructed using different molecular markers with a single analytical method, applied for the first time to lake sediments from Tibet. The early Holocene shows oscillations between grasses and conifers, with smouldering fires represented by levoglucosan peaks, and high-temperature fires represented by PAHs. The lack of human FeSts excludes local human influence on fire and vegetation changes. Late Holocene displays an increase in local to regional combustion.