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Guiterman, Lynch, Axelson
We present a new R package to provide dendroecologists with tools to infer, quantify, analyze, and visualize growth suppression events in tree rings. dfoliatR is based on the OUTBREAK program and builds on existing resources in the R computing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Villarreal, Iniguez, Flesch, Sanderlin, Cortés-Montaño, Conrad, Haire
The relationship between people and wildfire has always been paradoxical: fire is an essential ecological process and management tool, but can also be detrimental to life and property. Consequently, fire regimes have been modified throughout history…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Bowman, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Johnston, Van der Werf, Flannigan
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental damage. Contemporary fire regimes are increasingly impacted by human activities…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Byers, DeSoto, Chaney, Ash, Byers, Byers, Stoffel
Exploring features of wood anatomy associated with fire scars found on fossil tree trunks is likely to increase our knowledge of the environmental and ecological processes that occurred in ancient forests and of the role of fire as an evolutionary…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Haffey, Stortz
The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address uncertainty by…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Arizpe, Falk, Woodhouse, Swetnam
The climate of the south-western United States and northern Mexico borderlands is marked by a bimodal precipitation regime with the majority of moisture arriving during the cool season via Pacific frontal storm systems, and intense convective storms…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Pyne
Dr. Stephen Pyne, the world's foremost fire historian, discusses how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. To…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Hall
Pollen and charcoal records are developed from Ocate Bog (2905 m, 9530 ft) on Ocate Mesa east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. The records extend from 12,090 to 410 cal yr BP based on 19 radiocarbon dates…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Parks, Abatzoglou
Increases in burned area across the western US since the mid‐1980’s have been widely documented and linked partially to climate factors, yet evaluations of trends in fire severity are lacking. Here, we evaluate fire severity trends and their…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Pyne
Fire offers a special perspective by which to understand the Earth being remade by humans. Fire is integrative, so intrinsically interdisciplinary. Fire use is unique to humans, so a tracer of humanity's ecological impacts. Anthropogenic fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document