Spatial distribution of charcoal in topsoil and its potential determinants on the Tibetan Plateau  

作　　者：Yixuan WANG Chaoqun CAO Yanrong ZHANG Lina LIU Nannan WANG Wenjia LI Xianyong CAO 

机构地区：[1]Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation Group(ALPHA),State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System,Environment and Resources(TPESER),Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China [2]University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [3]College of Life Sciences,Zhejiang Normal University,Jinhua 321004,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Earth Science》2023年第4期1059-1069,共11页地球科学前沿（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Basic Science Center for Tibetan Plateau Earth System(BSCTPES,NSFC project No.41988101).

摘　　要：As an important proxy for investigating past fire activities,charcoal is often used to explore the characteristics of fire distribution and its relationships with vegetation,climate,and human activities.Research into the spatial distribution and environmental determinants for charcoal,however,is still limited.In this study,we identified and counted charcoal from topsoil samples covering the Tibetan Plateau using the pollen methodology,and investigated its relationships with vegetation net primary production(NPP),elevation,climate(precipitation,mean temperature of the coldest month and warmest month)and human population by boosted regression trees(BRT).Results reveal that the concentration of microscopic charcoal,macroscopic charcoal,and total charcoal all increase from south-west to north-east,which is consistent with the trend that the population density on the Tibetan Plateau is high in the east and low in the west,suggesting that an increase in human activity is likely to promote the occurrence of fire.The BRT modeling reveals that NPP,elevation,and mean temperature of the coldest month are important factors for total charcoal concentration on the Tibetan Plateau,and the frequency and intensity of fires further increase with increasing vegetation biomass,decreasing elevation,and decreasing mean temperature of the coldest month.The spatial variation characteristics of charcoal from topsoil on the Tibetan Plateau not only reflect well the spatial fire situation in the region,but also have a good indicative significance for vegetation,climate,and human activities.

关 键 词：BRT charcoal fire regime CLIMATE VEGETATION human activities 

分 类 号：P53[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]