Fire history data for eastern Washington, USA
Fire scars provide a deep temporal record of historical fires, most of which pre-date Euro-American conquest of the West and subsequent land-use and management changes that obscure the dynamics of natural fire regimes. This eastern Washington fire-history data publication contains a unique spatially explicit fire-scar database which was used to identify the influences of climate, fuels, topography, and management. We provide two components: a georeferenced layer in which each fire-scarred tree in seven watersheds is located, along with a list of fire-scarred trees and years in which that tree was scarred for each of the watershed.<br>To provide an in-depth understanding of historical drivers of low-severity fire regimes and the implications for contemporary management in a changing climate.<br>The publications listed in the cross-reference section below all utilize the data archived here. Some of these data may be included in the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/fire-history). Original metadata date was 05/19/2015. Minor metadata updates on 12/15/2016.
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| Format: | Dataset biblioteca |
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2015
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| Subjects: | Environmental sciences, topographic controls, Fire detection, multi-scale analysis, JFSP, biota, Joint Fire Science Program, spatially explicit, Fire, Fire history, ENSO, PDSI, |
| Online Access: | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Fire_history_data_for_eastern_Washington_USA/27006256 |
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