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Wave of fire: an anthropogenic signal in historical fire regimes across central Pennsylvania, USA

Ecosphere (Washington, D.C), 2018-05, Vol.9 (5), p.n/a [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018 The Authors. ;2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2150-8925 ;EISSN: 2150-8925 ;DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2222

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Title:
Wave of fire: an anthropogenic signal in historical fire regimes across central Pennsylvania, USA
Author: Stambaugh, Michael C. ; Marschall, Joseph M. ; Abadir, Erin R. ; Jones, Benjamin C. ; Brose, Patrick H. ; Dey, Daniel C. ; Guyette, Richard P.
Subjects: Anthropogenic factors ; Appalachian Mountains ; Archives & records ; Biodiversity ; Charcoal ; climate ; Colonization ; dendrochronology ; Ecosystem management ; Ecosystems ; Environmental changes ; fire regimes ; fire scar ; Fires ; Forests ; Historical ecology ; Hypotheses ; Land surveys ; Land use planning ; Lightning ; Natural resource management ; Natural resources ; Paleoecology ; Pine trees ; pitch pine ; Prescribed fire ; red pine ; Resource management ; Seasonal variations ; shortleaf pine ; Spatial analysis ; Table Mountain pine ; Time series ; Vegetation
Is Part Of: Ecosphere (Washington, D.C), 2018-05, Vol.9 (5), p.n/a
Description: Increasingly detailed records of long‐term fire regime characteristics are needed to test ecological concepts and inform natural resource management and policymaking. We reconstructed and analyzed twelve 350+ yr‐long fire scar records developed from 2612 tree‐ring dated fire scars on 432 living and dead pine (Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus resinosa, Pinus echinata) trees from across central Pennsylvania. We used multiple spatial and time series analysis methods to quantify fire regime characteristics (frequency, seasonality, percentages of trees scarred, extent) and fire–climate–human associations. Prior to the 20th‐century fire suppression, fire regimes at the majority of sites consisted of frequent, low‐to‐moderate severity, dormant season fires. Fires were often regionally synchronous when preceded by significantly dry years. Using documentary archives, we provide the first description of a “wave of fire”—an anthropogenic signal in fire frequency that progressively moved across the region. This “wave of fire” reflects a changing progression of anthropogenic fire regimes from Native American occupation and depopulation, to Euro‐American settlement, to industrialization and declining fire use up to the 20th century era of fire suppression. The wave of fire provides a new perspective on historical and modern fire regime dynamics and identifies socio‐ecological impacts since North American colonization. Because the anthropogenic wave of fire exists at sites across North America, we emphasize the need for a broader determination of its geographic prevalence and variability as such determinations could influence historical ecology interpretations and perspectives on past and future roles of humans in managing ecosystems with fire.
Publisher: Washington: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2150-8925
EISSN: 2150-8925
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2222
Source: Wiley Online Library Open Access
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Wave of fire: an anthropogenic signal in historical fire regimes across central Pennsylvania, USA

2018 The Authors. ;2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2150-8925 ;EISSN: 2150-8925 ;DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2222

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