High-resolution records detect human-caused changes to the boreal forest wildfire regime in interior Alaska

Holocene

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1064-1074

  Gaglioti, Benjamin V ^a,b   Mann, Daniel H ^c   Jones, Benjamin M ^b   Wooller, Matthew J ^a,c   Finney, Bruce P ^d  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; anthropogenic disturbance; boreal forest; charcoal; varves; wildfire; wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; CORE ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GOLD MINE; TRANSITION ZONE; URBAN AREA; VARVE; WILDERNESS AREA; WILDFIRE;

ACE LAKE; ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FAIRBANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977107236     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683616632893     Document Type: Article

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