Research article · 2026

Fire–climate–human interactions during the Holocene: insights from sediment records in southwestern Türkiye

Zahra Hashemi, Demet Biltekin, Alan M. Greaves, Sena Akçer-Ön, Zeki Bora Ön, Ksenia Zagvozdina, Ömer Yetemen · Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews 8(2), 665–682 (2026)

What this study does

The study compares sedimentary charcoal, vegetation indicators and evidence for human activity to evaluate how fire regimes changed through the Holocene rather than assuming a simple one-to-one climate–fire relationship.

Main finding

Forest structure and charcoal abundance are closely related, while anthropogenic indicators become more prominent after the mid-Holocene; later records are consistent with increasingly managed burning and established agricultural landscapes.

When this paper may be useful

• Mediterranean fire-history studies
• Fire–vegetation–human interactions
• Long-term land-use reconstruction
• Holocene environmental change in southwestern Türkiye

Methods and keywords

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