Paper 5
Fire-Regime Complacency and Sensitivity to Centennial- Through Millenial-Scale Climate Change in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests, Colorado, USA
Higuera, Briles & Whitlock 2014
This paper used data gleaned from pollen and charcoal records in cores from several lakes in the Rocky Mountain National Park area of Colorado. The study focused on using high resolution climate proxy data to identify possible patterns from the mid-Holocene through to today in order to establish possible patterns of fire history in order to better inform forest managers today on possible patterns to expect and how to structure fire regimens to maintain tree health. The overall structure of the study is what really draws me, and I fell will serve as an excellent template for one portion of my dissertation. It also means I have a subalpine ecology to consider. Although not alpine today, the eastern portion of the Winema-Fremont was sub- to actual alpine due to cooler temperatures during the Pleistocene, affecting flora at even modest elevations.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12296/abstract
Higuera, Briles & Whitlock 2014
This paper used data gleaned from pollen and charcoal records in cores from several lakes in the Rocky Mountain National Park area of Colorado. The study focused on using high resolution climate proxy data to identify possible patterns from the mid-Holocene through to today in order to establish possible patterns of fire history in order to better inform forest managers today on possible patterns to expect and how to structure fire regimens to maintain tree health. The overall structure of the study is what really draws me, and I fell will serve as an excellent template for one portion of my dissertation. It also means I have a subalpine ecology to consider. Although not alpine today, the eastern portion of the Winema-Fremont was sub- to actual alpine due to cooler temperatures during the Pleistocene, affecting flora at even modest elevations.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12296/abstract