Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests

PF Hessburg, CL Miller, SA Parks, NA Povak… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

PE Higuera, DG Gavin, PJ Bartlein… - International Journal of …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Over the past several decades, high-resolution sediment–charcoal records have been
increasingly used to reconstruct local fire history. Data analysis methods usually involve a …

[图书][B] The Great Basin: a natural prehistory

D Grayson - 2011 - books.google.com
" All paleoscientists working in the region will want this book because it brings in so much
new material and includes so many new interpretations. This is a grand synthesis and it …

The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network

EQ Margolis, CH Guiterman, RD Chavardès… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Fire regimes in North American forests are diverse and modern fire records are
often too short to capture important patterns, trends, feedbacks, and drivers of variability …

A summary of fire frequency estimates for California vegetation before Euro-American settlement

KM Van de Water, HD Safford - Fire Ecology, 2011 - Springer
California fire regimes have been altered from those that occurred prior to Euro-American
settlement, and are predicted to continue to change as global climates warm. Inclusion of fire …

Duration and severity of Medieval drought in the Lake Tahoe Basin

JA Kleppe, DS Brothers, GM Kent, F Biondi… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Droughts in the western US in the past 200 years are small compared to several
megadroughts that occurred during Medieval times. We reconstruct duration and magnitude …

Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America

DC Odion, CT Hanson, A Arsenault, WL Baker… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
There is widespread concern that fire exclusion has led to an unprecedented threat of
uncharacteristically severe fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws) and …

Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact∼ 12,800 years ago. 2. Lake, marine, and terrestrial …

WS Wolbach, JP Ballard, PA Mayewski… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Part 1 of this study investigated evidence of biomass burning in global ice records, and here
we continue to test the hypothesis that an impact event at the Younger Dryas boundary …