Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1788-1801

  Brubaker, Linda B ^a,d   Higuera, Philip E ^a,b,c   Rupp, T Scott ^d   Olson, Mark A ^d   Anderson, Patricia M ^e   Hu, Feng Sheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Box 757200 ^*  (United States)

^e Quaternary Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Alaska Frame based Ecosystem Code; ALFRESCO; Black spruce; Boreal forest; Brooks Range; Charcoal records; Data model comparison; Fire regime; Picea; USA; White spruce

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL;

BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST FIRE; GROWING SEASON; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECORD;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARCOAL; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 67650663947     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0797.1     Document Type: Article

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