A 1416-year reconstruction of annual, multidecadal, and centennial variability in area burned for ponderosa pine forests of the southern Colorado Plateau region, Southwest USA

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-290

  Roos, Christopher I ^a   Swetnam, Thomas W ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; climate predicted fire activity; fire history; Medieval Climate Anomaly; multiple regression; ponderosa pine

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOLOGY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREE RING; VULNERABILITY;

ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857259627     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611423694     Document Type: Article

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