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Siberian forests are shaped by complex interactions of climate, forest fires, insect outbreaks, and humans. Unravelling the linkages and mechanisms of these interactions will require long temporal and large spatial-scale perspectives. A full account of the past input of Siberian forest fires to global atmospheric composition (e.g., trace gases, aerosols, and particulates), as well as the potential for future input, will require accurate area burned time series and maps (Valendik 1990; Stocks 1991; Goldammer 1992; Dixon and Krankina 1993). Unfortunately, complete and reliable fire activity records are available only for the past one or two decades at best. Furthermore, these data cover only monitored areas, which are less than half of the total area in many remote regions of Siberia (Valendik 1990). Complete meteorological observations extending more than a few decades into the past are generally only available for larger cities. Hence, we must turn to “natural archives”, such as lake deposits and tree rings, to reconstruct long-term historical changes and trends in climate and disturbance processes (Valendik and Ivanova 1990).
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Swetnam, T.W. (1996). Fire and Climate History in the Central Yenisey Region, Siberia. In: Goldammer, J.G., Furyaev, V.V. (eds) Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia. Forestry Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8737-2_6
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