Drobyshev, Igor and Niklasson, Mats and Angelstam, Per and Majewski, P.
(2004).
Testing for anthropogenic influence on fire regime for a 600-year period in the Jaksha area, Komi Republic, East European Russia.
Canadian journal of forest research. 34
:10
, 2027-2036
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Abstract
In an attempt to quantitatively evaluate the natural versus anthropogenic signal in site fire histories, the statistical relationship between dendrochronologically dated fire events and tree-ring chronologies (deemed to be an independent proxy for climate variation) was analyzed for 14 sites in a 2600-km(2) area of pine-dominated forests in the Komi Republic (East European Russia) over the period from 1424 to 1954. We developed a cumulative measure of statistical fit between two types of fire events (early- and late-season fires) and ring-width chronologies of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) (total ring- and latewood-width chronologies). For a given site, the statistical fit between fires and tree-ring data tended to decrease with an increasing proportion of unique fire years. Distance from a site to the nearest village (deemed to be a proxy of human impact) explained 50% of the variation in statistical fit between fires and tree-ring data. The fit decreased in the majority of the sites from the earlier (1424-1700) to the later (1700-1960) periods. We interpret this to be a result of increased human impact on the fire regime since 1700 due to intensified colonization of the area.
Authors/Creators: | Drobyshev, Igor and Niklasson, Mats and Angelstam, Per and Majewski, P. | ||||||
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Title: | Testing for anthropogenic influence on fire regime for a 600-year period in the Jaksha area, Komi Republic, East European Russia | ||||||
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Series Name/Journal: | Canadian journal of forest research | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2004 | ||||||
Volume: | 34 | ||||||
Number: | 10 | ||||||
Page range: | 2027-2036 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||
Publisher: | Canadian Science Publishing | ||||||
Associated Programs and Other Stakeholders: | SLU - Environmental assessment > Programme Climate | ||||||
ISSN: | 1208-6037 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Additional Information: | Published version deposited here with kind permission from Canadian Science Publishing. | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Ecology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Forest Science | ||||||
Agrovoc terms: | fire ecology, forestry | ||||||
Keywords: | forestry, fire regimes, fire events, history, human impact, Russia | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3408 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3408 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 13293 | ||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (S) > Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Other | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 28 Apr 2016 13:53 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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