Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Hoffman, Kira M., Gavin, Daniel G., Starzomski, Brian M.
• Other Authors: Canada Foundation for Innovation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Hakai Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160608; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160608; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsos.160608

While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a ca 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (up to 4000 mm...