Fire and Climate Change During the Last 750 Yr in Northern Minnesota
Clark JS. 1990. Fire and Climate Change During the Last 750 Yr in Northern Minnesota. Ecological Monographs. 60(2):135-159
Charcoal stratigraphic analysis and fire scars on red pine were used to determine spatial and temporal occurrence of fire in 1 [square kilometer] of old-growth mixed conifer/hardwood forest in northwestern Minnesota. The combined methods for fire-history analysis provided a more detailed spatial and temporal documentation of fire regimes than has previously been possible from analysis of fire scars or of charcoal counts derived from fossil pollen preparations. Because climate varies continuously, the responsiveness of disturbance regime to short- and long-term climatic change suggests caution in the interpretation of fire frequencies that derive from space/time analogies or extrapolation from short-term data.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Clark, J
- Units
- APIS , GRPO , ISRO , VOYA
- Keywords
- Charcoal analysis, Climatic Change, Climatology, FIRE, Fire History, fire scars, Forest dynamics, Forestry, Fuel Loading, Itasca, little ice age, Minnesota, Plant Communities, stochastic process, thin sections, varves