Authors
Grant L Harley, Christopher H Baisan, Peter M Brown, Donald A Falk, William T Flatley, Henri D Grissino-Mayer, Amy Hessl, Emily K Heyerdahl, Margot W Kaye, Charles W Lafon, Ellis Q Margolis, R Stockton Maxwell, Adam T Naito, William J Platt, Monica T Rother, Thomas Saladyga, Rosemary L Sherriff, Lauren A Stachowiak, Michael C Stambaugh, Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, Alan H Taylor
Publication date
2018/4/10
Journal
Fire
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
11
Publisher
MDPI
Description
Dendroecology is the science that dates tree rings to their exact calendar year of formation to study processes that influence forest ecology (eg, Speer 2010 [1], Amoroso et al., 2017 [2]). Reconstruction of past fire regimes is a core application of dendroecology, linking fire history to population dynamics and climate effects on tree growth and survivorship. Since the early 20th century when dendrochronologists recognized that tree rings retained fire scars (eg, Figure 1), and hence a record of past fires, they have conducted studies worldwide to reconstruct [2] the historical range and variability of fire regimes (eg, frequency, severity, seasonality, spatial extent),[3] the influence of fire regimes on forest structure
Scholar articles
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