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Applying combustion markers – Part II: Holocene limnic archives (Germany)
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- 18 January 2013
To clarify whether geochemical fire proxies correlate with vegetation and land use changes in the Holocene Rhine catchment, we have analysed limnic sediments from the Holzmaar and the Meerfelder... -
Reconstructing and differentiating fire regimes from molecular scale residues
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- 27 February 2012
Lab experiments revealed high correlation of molecular markers extracted from chars in relation to fire temperature (r2 = 0.88; see Figure). Markers for combustion temperature were successfully... -
Black Carbon analyses of charcoals reveal burning temperatures
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- 27 May 2011
Project F3 focuses on the relation between human population dynamics and fire. With the onset of settlement and agricultural land use, humans had great impact on landscapes, for example, as...