Using Tree-Rings to Reconstruct Fire History Information from Forested Areas

10.3791/61698 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Cerano-Paredes ◽  
Jose M. Iniguez ◽  
José Villanueva-Díaz ◽  
Rosalinda Cervantes-Martínez ◽  
Víctor H. Cambrón-Sandoval ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
History Information ◽  
Forested Areas

scholarly journals Reconstruction of fire history in Mexican tropical pines using tree rings

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (05) ◽  
pp. 553-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke A. Cassell ◽  
Ernesto Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Fire Scars ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Sierra Madre Del Sur ◽  
Sierra De Manantlán

A dendropyrochronological study was conducted in pine-dominated forest in the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in Mexico. Tropical pines present several difficulties for tree-ring research including missing, false and diffuse rings. This paper discusses the methods that were used to analyze tree rings in order to reconstruct fire history based on the dating of fire scars sampled from tropical pines.

scholarly journals Snow–avalanche history reconstructed with tree rings in Parâng Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Corina TODEA ◽  
Olimpiu Traian Pop ◽  
Daniel GERMAIN
Keyword(s):  
Tree Rings ◽  
Past History ◽  
Snow Avalanche ◽  
Snow Avalanches ◽  
Average Return ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Southern Carpathians

Snow avalanches are a common phenomenon in Parâng Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania) perturbing tourism activities and associated infrastructures, damaging forests, and causing fatalities. Its past history is an es­sential information to gather while assessing the hazard zonation areas. Usually, in Romania snow–avalanche activ­ity occurring in forested areas are neither monitored, nor recorded by historical archives. In these areas, environ­mental archives such as tree rings may provide useful information about the past avalanche activity. The purpose of the present study is to reconstruct snow–avalanche history with tree rings along a path located below Cârja Peak (2405 m a.s.l.), an area where past snow–avalanche activity still remains underestimated. In this sense, 57 Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) trees showing clear signs of disturbance by snow avalanches were sampled and the growth anomalies associated with the mechanical impact produced by snow avalanches on trees were identified within their rings and served to reconstruct past events. The reconstructed chronology covers the period 1994–2018 showing the occurrence of a minimum of 11 major events, with an average return period of 2.1 years. Tree–ring records provided the most consistent avalanche event chronology in the study area. Although the lim­ited extension of the chronology back in time, a better understanding of snow–avalanche history which may be gained through dendro­chronological reconstructions represent nonetheless useful and pertinent information to consider before the imple­mentation and development of infrastructure in this mountain avalanche–prone area.

scholarly journals Integrating fire-scar, charcoal and fungal spore data to study fire events in the boreal forest of northern Europe

The Holocene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1480-1490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Normunds Stivrins ◽  
Tuomas Aakala ◽  
Liisa Ilvonen ◽  
Leena Pasanen ◽  
Timo Kuuluvainen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Fungal Spores ◽  
Fire Dynamics ◽  
Fire Scars ◽  
Fire Event ◽  
Fire Scar

Fire is a major disturbance agent in the boreal forest, influencing many current and future ecosystem conditions and services. Surprisingly few studies have attempted to improve the accuracy of fire-event reconstructions even though the estimates of the occurrence of past fires may be biased, influencing the reliability of the models employing those data (e.g. C stock, cycle). This study aimed to demonstrate how three types of fire proxies – fire scars from tree rings, sedimentary charcoal and, for the first time in this context, fungal spores of Neurospora – can be integrated to achieve a better understanding of past fire dynamics. By studying charcoal and Neurospora from sediment cores from forest hollows, and the fire scars from tree rings in their surroundings in the southern Fennoscandian and western Russian boreal forest, we produced composite fire-event data sets and fire-event frequencies, and estimated fire return intervals. Our estimates show that the fire return interval varied between 126 and 237 years during the last 11,000 years. The highest fire frequency during the 18th–19th century can be associated with the anthropogenic influence. Importantly, statistical tests revealed a positive relationship between other fire event indicators and Neurospora occurrence allowing us to pinpoint past fire events at times when the sedimentary charcoal was absent, but Neurospora were abundant. We demonstrated how fire proxies with different temporal resolution can be linked, providing potential improvements in the reliability of fire history reconstructions from multiple proxies.

scholarly journals Fire records in tree rings of Moquiniastrum polymorphum: potential for reconstructing fire history in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno Fritz das Neves Brandes ◽  
Andrea Sánchez-Tapia ◽  
Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero ◽  
Rafael Perpetuo Albuquerque ◽  
Cláudia Franca Barros
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest

scholarly journals The first forest fire history of the Burabai Region (Kazakhstan)from tree rings of Pinus sylvestris

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuralay MAZARZHANOVA ◽  
Arailym KOPABAYEVA ◽  
Nesibe KÖSE ◽  
Ünal AKKEMİK
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Sylvestris ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Using Bigcone Douglas-Fir Fire Scars and Tree Rings to Reconstruct Interior Chaparral Fire History

Fire Ecology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith J. Lombardo ◽  
Thomas W. Swetnam ◽  
Christopher H. Baisan ◽  
Mark I. Borchert
Keyword(s):  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Douglas Fir ◽  
Fire Scars

Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam A. Ali ◽  
Philip E. Higuera ◽  
Yves Bergeron ◽  
Christopher Carcaillet
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Charcoal Production ◽  
Sediment Records ◽  
History Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Canadian Boreal Forest ◽  
Macroscopic Charcoal

AbstractSedimentary charcoal particles from lakes are commonly used to investigate fire history. Fire-history reconstructions are based on measuring the surface area or counting the number of charcoal fragments in adjacent samples. Recently, the volume of charcoal particles was advised as a more accurate method for quantifying past charcoal production. Large charcoal datasets, used to synthesize global fire history, include these different types of charcoal measurements and implicitly assume that they provide comparable fire-history information. However, no study has demonstrated that this assumption is valid. Here we compare fire-frequency reconstructions based on measurements of charcoal area and number, and estimates of charcoal volume from two lake sediment records from the eastern Canadian boreal forest. Results indicate that the three proxies provide comparable fire-history interpretations when using a locally defined threshold to identify fire events.

Bright sparks reveal invisible tree rings

Nature ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quirin Schiermeier
Keyword(s):  
Tree Rings

Understanding Forests' Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: A Framework for Interventions in Forested Areas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Shyamsundar ◽  
Sofia Ahlroth ◽  
Patricia Kristjanson ◽  
Stefanie Onder
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Forested Areas

Rapid Assessment Of Taal Volcano Protected Landscape (TVPL) Terrestrial Biodiversity

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Species ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Taal Volcano ◽  
Ecological Barriers ◽  
Floral Diversity ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Terrestrial Biodiversity

With the exponential rise of human activities in the past decades, majority of studies conducted in Taal Volcano Protected Landscape (TVPL) are geared towards the conservation and preservation of Lake Taal’s remaining biodiversity. However, the current structure and assemblage of its terrestrial biotic communities remain relatively unstudied. In this study, we conducted biodiversity censuses in the four sites in TVPL to provide baseline information regarding the community structure of the selected study sites. Comparison of the plant diversity in Taal Volcano Crater Island and Romandan Falls within the forested areas of Mataas na Kahoy, Batangas reveal that both sites support remarkably different vegetation, with the former supporting a smaller floral diversity. The fairly small number of animal samples present difficulty in providing conclusive findings to the wildlife structure of the two study sites. However, the presence of 11 animal species exhibit valuable results in determining the ecological status of TVPL. It is deduced that several ecological barriers exist between the sites, which is attributed to their unique terrestrial biota.

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