1. Falkland Island peatland development processes and the pervasive presence of fire
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Andrey N. Tsyganov, Hannah Bowey, Craig Smeaton, David Muirhead, Natalia Piotrowska, Kirill V. Babeshko, D. Mauquoy, Rebecca Bartlett, Graham Rush, Matthew J. O'Callaghan, Thomas J. Sloan, Richard J. Payne, Chris D. Evans, Ian Boomer, Yuri Mazei, Fin Ring-Hrubesh, University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development, and University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,NDAS ,Art history ,Earth and Planetary Sciences(all) ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,01 natural sciences ,Fire Vegetation dynamics ,Southern westerly wind ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Global and Planetary Change ,Conceptualization ,Holocene ,Palaeontology ,Peat ,Environmental research ,Geology ,Thermogravimetric analysis ,Vegetation dynamics ,Fire ,Falkland Islands ,Charcoal ,Raman spectroscopy ,Testate amoebae - Abstract
Acknowledgments RJP secured funding for this research from the Quaternary Research Association, University of York and the Russian Science Foundation (19-14-00102). We thank Paul Brickle and other members of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute for their help with logistics, David Large for valuable discussions about Falkland Islands peat and all landowners for access permission. This work is dedicated to Richard J. Payne who was tragically killed while climbing Peak 6477, a previously unclimbed subsidiary peak of Nanda Devi (Garhwal Himalayas) in May 2019. CRediT authorship contribution statement Dmitri Mauquoy: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Richard J. Payne: Conceptualization, Investigation. Kirill V. Babeshko: Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Rebecca Bartlett: Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Ian Boomer: Investigation. Hannah Bowey: Investigation. Chris D. Evans: Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Fin Ring-Hrubesh: Investigation. David Muirhead: Methodology, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Matthew O’Callaghan: Investigation. Natalia Piotrowska: Investigation. Graham Rush: Investigation. Thomas Sloan: Investigation. Craig Smeaton: Methodology, Investigation, Writing - original draft. Andrey N. Tsyganov: Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Yuri A. Mazei: Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.
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- 2020