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: Kira M. Hoffman, Daniel G. Gavin, Brian M. Starzomski
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2016
• Subjects: anthropogenic burning; arctic oscillation; coastal temperate rainforest; el niño-southern oscillation; pacific decadal oscillation; pacific northwest; Science; Q; Arctic; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160608; https://doaj.org/article/fb26ae4adb584c2a839977df4997daa3

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...