Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest"
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 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3518973 2023-05-15T15:07:31+02:00 Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" Hoffman, Kira M. Gavin, Daniel G. Starzomski, Brian M. 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3518973 https://figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Seven_hundred_years_of_human-driven_and_climate-influenced_fire_activity_in_a_British_Columbia_coastal_temperate_rainforest_/3518973 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160608 CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Environmental Science Ecology FOS Biological sciences Plant Biology Collection article 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3518973 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160608 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z 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 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Canada Pacific British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) |
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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 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes. |
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Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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Supplementary material from "Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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supplementary material from "seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a british columbia coastal temperate rainforest" |
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