2013
DOI: 10.1890/12-1742.1
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Postglacial climate and fire‐mediated vegetation change on the western Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA)

Abstract: The mode and tempo of forest compositional change during periods of rapid climate change, including the potential for the fire regime to produce nonlinear relationships between climate and vegetation, is a long‐standing theme of forest ecological research. In the old conifer forests of the coastal Pacific Northwest, fire disturbances are sufficiently rare that their relation to climate and their ecological effects are poorly understood. We used a 14 700‐year high‐resolution sediment record from Yahoo Lake on t… Show more

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“…Like our study, Gavin et al. () suggest that after 7,000 yr ago state changes generally did not occur after fire in the Olympic Mountains, attributed to low variability in climate over this period. The hypothesis of faster species turnover due to greater climate variability and velocity before 7,000 yr ago also has support in eastern North America (Ordonez and Williams ), where rapid state changes during the late glacial and early Holocene were likely the result of extrinsic climatic forcing (Ordonez and Williams ).…”
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confidence: 75%
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“…Like our study, Gavin et al. () suggest that after 7,000 yr ago state changes generally did not occur after fire in the Olympic Mountains, attributed to low variability in climate over this period. The hypothesis of faster species turnover due to greater climate variability and velocity before 7,000 yr ago also has support in eastern North America (Ordonez and Williams ), where rapid state changes during the late glacial and early Holocene were likely the result of extrinsic climatic forcing (Ordonez and Williams ).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 75%
“…In contrast, state changes in the PNW during this period (this study, Gavin et al. ) appear to be driven by a mix of extrinsic and intrinsic factors, with evidence for fire catalyzing nearly every large‐scale state change in vegetation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 53%
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“…Fire has been shown to be a catalyst for vegetation shifts (Crausbay, Higuera, Sprugel, & Brubaker, 2017;Donato, Harvey, & Turner, 2016;Gavin, Brubaker, & Greenwald, 2013;Stralberg et al, 2018), accelerating climate-driven changes that would otherwise take decades or centuries to unfold. Vegetation shifts can be caused by a single large fire event (Crausbay et al, 2017;Donato et al, 2016) or by a series of fires over a time period shorter than the dominant species require for maturation (Buma, Brown, Donato, Fontaine, & Johnstone, 2013).…”
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confidence: 99%