Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions

Walter Finsinger (1) , Christoph Schwörer , Oliver Heiri , César Morales-Molino (2) , Adriano Ribolini (3) , Thomas Giesecke (4) , Jean Nicolas Haas , Petra Kaltenrieder , Enikő Magyari (5, 6, 7) , Cesare Ravazzi , Juan Manuel Rubiales (8) , Willy Tinner

1 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
2 EPOC - Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques
3 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
4 Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics
5 GINOP Sustainable Ecosystem Research Group
6 Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography
7 MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology
8 Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución [Madrid]

Mots clés: treeline; refugia; nunatak; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); European Alps

Domaines: Sylviculture, foresterie; Milieux et Changements globaux; Interfaces continentales, environnement; Botanique

Walter Finsinger, Christoph Schwörer, Oliver Heiri, César Morales-Molino, Adriano Ribolini, et al.. Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions: Comment on Carcaillet & Blarquez (2017) ‘Fire ecology of a tree glacial refugium on a nunatak with a view on Alpine glaciers’. New Phytologist, 2019, 222, pp.657-662. ⟨10.1111/nph.15354⟩. ⟨hal-01844429⟩