TY - JOUR
T1 - Sources for a historical geography of forest fires. Some methodological considerations
AU - Carracedo Martín, Virginia
AU - Cunill Artigas, Raquel
AU - García Codron, Juan Carlos
AU - Pèlachs Mañosa, Albert
AU - Pérez Obiol, Ramon
AU - López, Joan Manuel Soriano
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - © 2017, University of Granada. All rights reserved. Fire plays an essential role in the configuration of the mountain landscapes. However, our knowledge of its incidence over time is very fragmentary and often based on a small number of sources. In order to explore their limitations and complementarity, we discuss the results of some analytical techniques (study of sedimentary charcoal, pollen, pedoanthracology, levoglucosan and isotopes of lead and heavy metals collected in peatlands for periods ranging up to Lateglacial) with information from historical archives, newspapers and climate and forest fires databases (which provide information up to the fifteenth, nineteenth and mid-twentieth respectively).The results prove the complementarity of the different techniques and their combination mitigates some of their individual limitations. The most recent, accurate and reliable data facilitate the interpretation of the former which, in turn, are necessary for the understanding of long-term processes, generating useful feedbacks for the reconstruction of the historical geography of the fire sand to understand the role they have played in the installation of the current vegetation cover.
AB - © 2017, University of Granada. All rights reserved. Fire plays an essential role in the configuration of the mountain landscapes. However, our knowledge of its incidence over time is very fragmentary and often based on a small number of sources. In order to explore their limitations and complementarity, we discuss the results of some analytical techniques (study of sedimentary charcoal, pollen, pedoanthracology, levoglucosan and isotopes of lead and heavy metals collected in peatlands for periods ranging up to Lateglacial) with information from historical archives, newspapers and climate and forest fires databases (which provide information up to the fifteenth, nineteenth and mid-twentieth respectively).The results prove the complementarity of the different techniques and their combination mitigates some of their individual limitations. The most recent, accurate and reliable data facilitate the interpretation of the former which, in turn, are necessary for the understanding of long-term processes, generating useful feedbacks for the reconstruction of the historical geography of the fire sand to understand the role they have played in the installation of the current vegetation cover.
KW - Geohistorical and palaeoenvironmental sources
KW - History of forest fires
KW - Holocene
M3 - Article
VL - 56
SP - 66
EP - 89
JO - Cuadernos Geograficos
JF - Cuadernos Geograficos
SN - 0210-5462
IS - 3
ER -