The Reading Palaeofire Database v1b: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records

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
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:	18 April 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
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Additional details Additional details Project Name: Global Change 2.0: Unlocking the past for a clearer future (GC2.0), Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society Funders: European Research Council (694481) Leverhulme Trust (RC-2018-023) Resource Language: English Geographic coverage: Global Depositing User: Dr Paul Lincoln Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2022 09:58 Last Modified: 16 Apr 2024 15:27

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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)
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