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

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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 version 1 is an updated and expanded database of global charcoal records, accompanied by new Bayesian age models. The first version of the RPD contains 1681 charcoal records from 1477 sites worldwide. New age models have been run for 714 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:	2021
Data last accessed:	20 April 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.319
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/319
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
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Project Name: GC2.0 (Global Change 2.0: Unlocking the past for a clearer future), Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society Funders: European Commission (694481) Leverhulme Trust (RC-2018-023) Resource Language: English Geographic coverage: Global Depositing User: Dr Paul Lincoln Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2021 14:22 Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 05:19

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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) [Currently Displayed]
  • 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)