Fire regimes
I reconstruct drivers and impact of landscape fire from terrestrial sediment archives in Central Europe and eastern Siberia. Main challenge: How to reconstruct fire regimes quantitatively to allow linking the past with future predictions (fire regimes as described by fire intensity/severity, fire frequencies and the area/amount of biomass burnt)? How to manage forests and fires in a warmer future considering cultural and societal needs?
- Ongoing and past research
- Millennial to orbital scale low intensity fires of eastern Siberia from previous warm periods using lake sediments of Lake El’gygytgyn, northeastern Siberia (ICDP site 5011-1)
- Dietze, E., Mangelsdorf, K., Andreev, A., Karger, C., Schreuder, L. T., Hopmans, E. C., Rach, O., Sachse, D., Wennrich, V., and Herzschuh, U.: Relationships between low-temperature fires, climate and vegetation during three late glacials and interglacials of the last 430 kyr in northeastern Siberia reconstructed from monosaccharide anhydrides in Lake El'gygytgyn sediments, Clim. Past, 16, 799–818, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-799-2020, 2020.
- Decadal scale human-fire relationships since industrialization using annually laminated lake sediments
- Dietze, E., Brykała, D., Schreuder, L. T., Jażdżewski, K., Blarquez, O., Brauer, A., Dietze, M., Obremska, M., Ott, F., Pieńczewska, A., Schouten, S., Hopmans, E. C., and Słowiński, M.: Human-induced fire regime shifts during 19th century industrialization: A robust fire regime reconstruction using northern Polish lake sediments, PLOS ONE, 14, e0222011, 10.1371/journal.pone.0222011, 2019.
- Natural and cultural human-fire relationships in the Central European Lowlands throughout the Holocene:
- Dietze, E., Theuerkauf, M., Bloom, K., Brauer, A., Dörfler, W., Feeser, I., Feurdean, A., Gedminienė, L., Giesecke, T., Jahns, S., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Lamentowicz, M., Latałowa, M., Marcisz, K., Obremska, M., Pędziszewska, A., Poska, A., Rehfeld, K., Stančikaitė, M., Stivrins, N., Święta-Musznicka, J., Szal, M., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S., Wacnik, A., Weisbrodt, D., Wiethold, J., Vannière, B., and Słowiński, M.: Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe, Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 44-56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.005, 2018.
- For further studies and links to freely available articles please see my ResearchGate site