How to cite this Dataset
Harrison, Sandy, Villegas-Diaz, Roberto, Lincoln, Paul, Kesner, David, Cruz-Silva, Esmeralda, Sweeney, Luke, Shen, Yicheng and Gallagher, Daniel (2022): The Reading Palaeofire Database v1b: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000345
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Description
Wildfires have major impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, the global carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry and climate. Charcoal records from sedimentary sequences provide a way to reconstruct palaeofire regimes at different temporal and spatial scales and are a key resource to improve our understanding of the drivers of wildfires. The RPD is an updated and expanded database of global charcoal records, accompanied by new Bayesian age models. This is an updated version of the RPD (RPDv1b), with updates to site, entity, sample and date_info metadata and the inclusion/updating of age models for 233 entities. The database contains 1676 charcoal records from 1480 sites worldwide. Age models have been run for 829 of the charcoal records.
Resource Type: | Dataset |
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Creators: | Harrison, Sandy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-1903, Villegas-Diaz, Roberto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5036-8661, Lincoln, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0566-2970, Kesner, David, Cruz-Silva, Esmeralda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2906-9290, Sweeney, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8161-819X, Shen, Yicheng and Gallagher, Daniel |
Rights-holders: | University of Reading, David Kesner, Esmeralda Cruz-Silva, Luke Sweeney, Daniel Gallagher |
Data Publisher: | University of Reading |
Publication Year: | 2022 |
Data last accessed: | 5 November 2024 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000345 |
Metadata Record URL: | https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/345 |
Organisational units: | Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science |
Participating Organisations: | University of Reading, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Keywords: | charcoal, palaeofire, Bayesian age models |
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Data Availability: | OPEN |
Available Versions of this Item
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The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. (deposited 11 Aug 2021 14:22)
- The Reading Palaeofire Database v1b: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. (deposited 11 Jan 2022 09:58) [Currently Displayed]