Pre- and post-European settlement fire history of red pine dominated forest ecosystems of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Michigan

Drobyshev, Igor; Goebel, P. Charles; Hix, David M.; Corace, R. Gregory; Semko-Duncan, Marie E.

doi:10.1139/x08-082

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“…The length and quality of fire records provided by this wood was comparable to fire histories from Ontario, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin [18,[41][42][43][44][45]. The fire scar record that the northern Wisconsin remnant wood provides is decaying and will probably be unavailable in a few decades.…”

Section: Fire Intervalsmentioning

confidence: 77%

350 Years of Fire-Climate-Human Interactions in a Great Lakes Sandy Outwash Plain

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Stambaugh

Dey

et al. 2016

Forests

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Throughout much of eastern North America, quantitative records of historical fire regimes and interactions with humans are absent. Annual resolution fire scar histories provide data on fire frequency, extent, and severity, but also can be used to understand fire-climate-human interactions. This study used tree-ring dated fire scars from red pines (Pinus resinosa) at four sites in the Northern Sands Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin to quantify the interactions among fire occurrence and seasonality, drought, and humans. New methods for assessing the influence of human ignitions on fire regimes were developed. A temporal and spatial index of wildland fire was significantly correlated (r = 0.48) with drought indices (Palmer Drought Severity Index, PDSI). Fire intervals varied through time with human activities that included early French Jesuit missions, European trade (fur), diseases, war, and land use. Comparisons of historical fire records suggest that annual climate in this region has a broad influence on the occurrence of fire years in the Great Lakes region.

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Section: Fire Intervalsmentioning

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350 Years of Fire-Climate-Human Interactions in a Great Lakes Sandy Outwash Plain

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Stambaugh

Dey

et al. 2016

Forests

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“…At each site, we searched over an area ≤1 ha (or smaller in the islands with the total area <1 ha) and also limited our maximum search time for potential samples to 2.5 h in order to ensure that our sampling effort did not lead to differences in the probability of detecting past fires among sites. See further details of our sampling strategy in Drobyshev et al (2008a). In the majority of cases (97%), the samples were collected from red pine; other tree species from which samples were taken included jack pine and eastern white pine.…”

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“…We used topographic and vegetation maps to identify natural fire breaks (e.g., streams, local depressions in the terrain, and shrub-dominated areas) that were considered as likely borders of the fires between two recording sites with and without fire recorded for the year in question. See further details in Drobyshev et al (2008a). Historical fires were spatially reconstructed over the period 1700-2003.…”

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“…Two independent datasets were analyzed, including a spatially explicit reconstruction of the SNWR fire history (Drobyshev et al, 2008a) and a drought-sensitive chronology of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait. chronology can037 of ITRDB, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treering.html) as an independent proxy for historic fire-related climate variability.…”

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Detecting changes in climate forcing on the fire regime of a North American mixed-pine forest: A case study of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Michigan

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a b s t r a c tThe study of forests dominated by red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.), one of the few fire-resistant tree species of eastern North America, provides an opportunity to reconstruct long-term fire histories and examine the temporal dynamics of climate forcing upon forest fire regimes. We used a 300-year long spatially explicit dendrochronological reconstruction of the fire regime for Seney National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR, 38,531 ha), eastern Upper Michigan to: (1) identify fire size thresholds with strong vs. weak climate controls, (2) evaluate effect of landform type (outwash channel vs. sand ridges) in modifying climate-fire associations, and (3) check for the presence of temporal changes in the climate control of large fire events over the time period 1700-1983. We used a summer drought sensitive red pine chronology (ITRDB code can037) as a proxy of past fire-related climate variability. Results indicated that fires >60 ha in sand-ridgedominated portions of SNWR and >100 ha in outwash channels were likely climatically driven events. Climate-fire associations varied over time with significant climate-fire linkages observed for the periods 1700-1800 (pre-EuroAmerican), 1800-1900 (EuroAmerican settlement) and 1900-1983 (modern era). Although an increase in fire activity at the turn of 20th century is commonly associated with human sources of ignitions, our results suggest that such an increase was also likely a climatically driven episode.

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“…Forests in this region therefore represent a range of historic fire regimes, such as the infrequent, high-severity crown fires characteristic of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forests, relatively frequent, low-to moderate-severity surface fires characteristic of mixed-pine forests, and infrequent, low-or high-severity fires in northern hardwood forests [5][6][7]. [2].…”

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Fire Effects on Soils in Lake States Forests: A Compilation of Published Research to Facilitate Long-Term Investigations

Miesel

Goebel

Corace

et al. 2012

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Fire-adapted forests of the Lake States region are poorly studied relative to those of the western and southeastern United States and our knowledge base of regional short-and long-term fire effects on soils is limited. We compiled and assessed the body of literature addressing fire effects on soils in Lake States forests to facilitate the re-measurement of previous studies for the development of new long-term datasets, and to identify existing gaps in the regional knowledge of fire effects on forest soils. Most studies reviewed addressed fire effects on chemical properties in pine-dominated forests, and long-term (>10 years) studies were limited. The major gaps in knowledge we identified include: (1) information on fire temperature and behavior information that would enhance OPEN ACCESSForests 2012, 3 1035 interpretation of fire effects; (2) underrepresentation of the variety of forest types in the Lake States region; (3) information on nutrient fluxes and ecosystem processes; and (4) fire effects on soil organisms. Resolving these knowledge gaps via future research will provide for a more comprehensive understanding of fire effects in Lake States forest soils. Advancing the understanding of fire effects on soil processes and patterns in Lake States forests is critical for designing regionally appropriate long-term forest planning and management activities.

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Pre- and post-European settlement fire history of red pine dominated forest ecosystems of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Michigan

Cited by 67 publications

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350 Years of Fire-Climate-Human Interactions in a Great Lakes Sandy Outwash Plain

350 Years of Fire-Climate-Human Interactions in a Great Lakes Sandy Outwash Plain

Detecting changes in climate forcing on the fire regime of a North American mixed-pine forest: A case study of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Michigan

Fire Effects on Soils in Lake States Forests: A Compilation of Published Research to Facilitate Long-Term Investigations

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