Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of yellowstone National Park, USA

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 327-341

  Higuera, Philip E ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^a   Gage, Josh A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; charcoal analysis; climate change; fire history; Pinus contorta; wildfires

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DROUGHT; FIRE HISTORY; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREE RING; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 79952099852     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610374882     Document Type: Article

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