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Nogué, Sandra; Tovar, Carolina; Bhagwat, Shonil A; Finsinger, Walter; Willis, Katherine J (2021): Macroscopic charcoal counts and areas from fours sites in the Western Ghats (India) over the past 1000 years [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930078

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Published: 2021-04-07 • DOI registered: 2021-05-19

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Abstract:
High-resolution, continuously sampled charcoal records from sedimentary archives are rare in India. These datasets from four forest hollows' sedimentary sequences in an ancient agroforestry system in the Western Ghats, India, comprise the following data: (I) Macroscopic charcoal record (> 150 µm), including the total amount of particles per sample as well as the total area (mm2) of the particles per sample, and (II) Radiometric age dating (radiocarbon and Lead-210) used for depth-age modelling. More detailed information about the charcoal record and the relationships between biomass burning, vegetation change and land-use changes in the context of tropical agroforestry landscapes and sacred groves can be found in the research papers.
Keyword(s):
agroforestry; charcoal; fire history; India; tropical forest; Western Ghats
Related to:
Bhagwat, Shonil A; Nogué, Sandra; Willis, Katherine J (2012): Resilience of an ancient tropical forest landscape to 7500years of environmental change. Biological Conservation, 153, 108-117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.05.002
Bhagwat, Shonil A; Nogué, Sandra; Willis, Katherine J (2014): Cultural drivers of reforestation in tropical forest groves of the Western Ghats of India. Forest Ecology and Management, 329, 393-400, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.017
Nogué, Sandra; Tovar, Carolina; Bhagwat, Shonil A; Finsinger, Walter; Willis, Katherine J (2018): Exploring the Ecological History of a Tropical Agroforestry Landscape Using Fossil Pollen and Charcoal Analysis from Four Sites in Western Ghats, India. Ecosystems, 21(1), 45-55, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0132-1
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 12.149861 * Median Longitude: 75.824514 * South-bound Latitude: 12.046667 * West-bound Longitude: 75.713056 * North-bound Latitude: 12.220278 * East-bound Longitude: 75.975556
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Age determination of sediment core Ghats_BOP. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930067
  2. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Macroscopic charcoal counts and areas from sediment core Ghats_BOP. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930073
  3. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Age determination of sediment core Ghats_MY. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930069
  4. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Macroscopic charcoal counts and areas from sediment core Ghats_MY. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930074
  5. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Age determination of sediment core Ghats_RAJ. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930070
  6. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Macroscopic charcoal counts and areas from sediment core Ghats_RAJ. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930075
  7. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Age determination of sediment core Ghats_TS. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930071
  8. Nogué, S; Tovar, C; Bhagwat, SA et al. (2021): Macroscopic charcoal counts and areas from sediment core Ghats_TS. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930076