Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene

Gallego-Sala, A. V.; Charman, D. J.; Harrison, S. P.; Li, G.; Prentice, I. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-129-2016

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-129-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-129-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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28 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 28 Jan 2016

Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene

A. V. Gallego-Sala, D. J. Charman, S. P. Harrison, G. Li, and I. C. Prentice

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RC C2140: 'RC: Is the model really necessary to draw the conclusion?', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Oct 2015
- AC C2179: 'Response to Reviewer #1 comments.', Angela Gallego-Sala, 03 Nov 2015
RC C2447: 'Review of “Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene” by Gallego-Sala et al., submitted to CP', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Nov 2015
- AC C2571: 'Answers to comments from Reviewer 2', Angela Gallego-Sala, 08 Dec 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (26 Dec 2015) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

AR by Angela Gallego-Sala on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2016) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

AR by Angela Gallego-Sala on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2016)

Short summary

It has become a well-established paradigm that blanket bog landscapes in the British Isles are a result of forest clearance by early human populations. We provide a novel test of this hypothesis using results from bioclimatic modelling driven by cimate reconstructions compared with a database of peat initiation dates. Both results show similar patterns of peat initiation over time and space. This suggests that climate was the main driver of blanket bog inception and not human disturbance.