• DOI:10.1038/nature03058
Corpus ID: 1452537

Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests

@article{Pierce2004FireinducedEA,
  title={Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests},
  author={J. Pierce and G. Meyer and A. Jull},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={432},
  pages={87-90}
}

J. Pierce, G. Meyer, A. Jull

Published 2004

Environmental Science, Medicine

Nature

Western US ponderosa pine forests have recently suffered extensive stand-replacing fires followed by hillslope erosion and sedimentation. These fires are usually attributed to increased stand density as a result of fire suppression, grazing and other land use, and are often considered uncharacteristic or unprecedented. Tree-ring records from the past 500 years indicate that before Euro-American settlement, frequent, low-severity fires maintained open stands. However, the pre-settlement period… CONTINUE READING

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