@mastersthesis {842, title = {Fire History and Fire Climate Relationships in Upper Elevation Forests of the Southwestern United States}, volume = {Ph.D}, year = {2007}, note = {

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}, pages = {182}, school = {University of Arizona}, type = {Dissertation}, address = {Tucson}, abstract = {

Fire history and fire-climate relationships of upper elevation forests of the southwestern United States are imperative for informing management decisions in the face of increased crown fire occurrence and climate change. I used dendroecological techniques to reconstruct fires and stand-replacing fire patch size in Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau. Reconstructed patch size (1685-1904) was compared with contemporary patch size (1996-2004). Reconstructed fires at three sites had stand-replacing patches totaling \> 500 ha. No historical stand-replacing fire patches were evident in the mixed conifer/aspen forests of the Sky Islands. Maximum stand-replacing fire patch size of modern fires (1129 ha) was greater than that reconstructed from aspen (286 ha) and spruce-fir (521 ha). Updated spruce-fir patches may be evidence of larger (\>2000ha) stand-replacing fire patches.

To provide climatological context for fire history I used correlation and regionalization analyses to document spatial and temporal variability in climate regions, and El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) teleconnections using 273 tree-ring chronologies (1732-1979). Four regions were determined by common variability in annual ring width. The component time score series replicate spatial variability in 20th century droughts (e.g., 1950\’s) and pluvials (e.g., 1910\’s). Two regions were significantly correlated with instrumental SOI and AMO, and three with PDO. Sub-regions within the southwestern U.S. varied geographically between the instrumental (1900-1979) and the pre-instrumental periods (1732-1899). Mapped correlations between ENSO, PDO and AMO, and tree-ring indices illustrate detailed sub-regional variability in teleconnections.

I analyzed climate teleconnections, and fire-climate relationships of historical upper elevation fires from 16 sites in 8 mountain ranges. I tested for links between Palmer Drought Severity Index and tree-ring reconstructed ENSO, PDO and AMO phases (1905-1978 and 1700-1904). Upper elevation fires (115 fires, 84 fire years, 1623-1904) were compared with climate indices. ENSO, PDO, and AMO affected regional PDSI, but AMO and PDO teleconnections changed between periods. Fire occurrence was significantly related to inter-annual variability in PDSI, precipitation, ENSO, and phase combinations of ENSO and PDO, but not AMO (1700-1904). Reduced upper elevation fire (1785-1840) was coincident with a cool AMO phase.

}, keywords = {AMO, climate, dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, ENSO, environment, fire, fire history, forest, madrean sky islands, mogollon plateau, mountain, PDO, southwest, teleconnection, tree ring, upper elevation, Watershed Management}, url = {http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1375523671\&sid=1\&Fmt=2\&clientId=43922\&RQT=309\&VName=PQD.}, author = {Margolis, Ellis Quinn} } @proceedings {762, title = {Trace Element Analysis of Wood a Tool for Monitoring Air Pollution}, year = {1985}, note = {Copies of this are available in the Tree Ring Laboratory. Please contact the curator for more information. pcreasman@ltrr.arizona.edu}, address = {Zurich}, keywords = {air pollution, analysis, environment, trace element, wood}, author = {Braker, O.U., McLaughlin, S.B., Baes, C.F.} } @proceedings {750, title = {The Use and Limitation of Dendrochronology in Studying the Effects of Air Pollution on Forests}, year = {1985}, note = {

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}, keywords = {agriculture, air pollution, climate, dendrochronology, environment, forests, wetlands}, author = {Cook, Edward Roger} } @article {772, title = {Eine jahrringanalytische Studie zum Nadelbaumsterben in der Schweiz}, year = {1983}, note = {Copies of this are available through the Tree Ring Laboratory; please contact the lab for more information. This edition of the reports is from the Swiss Federal Institute of Forestry Research. }, month = {08/1983}, institution = {Eidgenossische Anstalt fur das Forstliche Versuchswesen}, address = {Birmensdorf}, abstract = {Application of annual ring analysis in investigations of conifer die-back in Switzerland Obviously unhealthy confiders show abrupt tree-ring growth reductions which are datable without measurements. By investigation of large amount of samples on different sites in Switzerland we calculated the areal distribution of damaged trees and the damage occurrence within time. Geographical distribution and time patterns yield to relations between climatic and pollution events. The heavy damages on fir started in Switzerland 1956. Approximately 75\% of all firs in Switzerland{\textquoteright}s central plateau show growth reductions. Local damages exist in the Rhone-valley since 1920. }, keywords = {climate, damages, environment, fir, growth, growth reduction, pollution, Switzerland, tree ring}, author = {Schweingruber, Fritz H. and Kontic, Raymond and Winkler-Seifert, Amanda} } @article {748, title = {Analysis of Tree Rings and Climatic Changes}, year = {1978}, keywords = {changes, climate, dendrochronology, environment, tree rings}, author = {unknown} } @article {768, title = {Tree-ring evidence of past climatic variability}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {276}, year = {1978}, note = {

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}, keywords = {ancient, climate, environment, paleoclimatology, past, record, tree ring}, author = {LaMarche, V.C.} } @article {766, title = {Freshwater Fish-A Global Food Potential}, journal = {AMBIO}, year = {1977}, keywords = {acidification, environment, eutrophication, fish, food, freshwater, global food production, industrial waste, limiting factors, pollution}, author = {Gerking, Shelby D.} } @article {764, title = {History of Droughts in Washington State}, year = {1977}, keywords = {climate, droughts, environment, historic, history, washington, water}, author = {Governors Ad Hoc Executive Water Emergency Committee Staff} } @article {763, title = {Tree Rings A Record of Climate Past}, year = {1977}, note = {

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}, publisher = {U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Environmental Data Service}, address = {Washington, D.C. }, keywords = {climate, climatology, dendrochronology, environment, tree rings}, author = {Fritts, H.} } @article {767, title = {Climatic Information from Ratios of Cellulose in Tree Rings}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {262}, year = {1976}, keywords = {18 isotope, cellulose, climate, environment, O, oxygen, paleoclimatology, ratios, tree rings}, author = {Gray, John and Thompson, Peter} } @article {774, title = {Die Basis Temperatur der Winterlichen Schneedeckeals Moglicher Indikator fur Die Verbreitung con Permafrost in den Alpen}, year = {1973}, note = {This publication is available through the Tree Ring Laboratory; please contact the lab for more information. }, keywords = {alpine, climatology, dendrochronology, environment, permafrost, temperature}, author = {Haeberli, Von} } @booklet {759, title = {Paleoclimatology}, year = {1973}, keywords = {ancient, climate, dendrochronology, environment, paleoclimatology, tree rings}, author = {Fritts, H.} } @article {777, title = {Tree Rings, Glacial Advance, And Climate in The Alps}, journal = {Zeitschrift fur Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie}, volume = {VII}, year = {1971}, note = {

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}, abstract = {

Ring-width variations in stone pine near upper treeline in the Alps show a high negative correlation with the percentage of advancing glaciers in Austria and Switzerland. The relationship is due to the similarity of climatic models for tree growth and the glacial mass budget. Tree-ring fluctuations during the period 1800-1889, prior to the compilation of glacial statistics show good agreement with historical glacial advances and periods of low summer temperatures, especially around 1820-1855. Tree-ring studies could assist in reconstructing the glacial and climatic history of the Alps, possibly for a period of 1,000 years or more.

}, keywords = {alps, austria, climatology, environment, glacial advance, glaciers, Switzerland, tree ring}, author = {LaMarche, V.C. and Fritts, H.} } @article {790, title = {Tree Rings and Climatic Cycles, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Astronomical Studies}, volume = {XXIV}, year = {1944}, publisher = {University of Arizona}, address = {Tucson}, keywords = {astronomy, climate, dating, dendrochronology, Douglass, environment, fraternity, historic, tree ring, tree ring laboratory}, author = {Peterson, Roy M. and Douglass, A.E.} } @article {731, title = {Tree Growth and Climatic Cycles}, volume = {XXXVII}, year = {1933}, note = {Copies of this are available in the Tree Ring Laboratory. Please contact the curator for more information. pcreasman@ltrr.arizona.edu}, keywords = {climate, climatic cycles, Douglass, environment, historic, tree growth, tree rings}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {788, title = {Trees and Droughts in Arizona}, journal = {Professional Engineer}, year = {1931}, note = {This title is available through the Tree Ring Laboratory; please contact the lab for more information. }, keywords = {climate, dendrochronology, Douglass, droughts, environment, historic, tree, tree ring}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @proceedings {778, title = {Reports on the Conferences of Cycles}, year = {1929}, publisher = {Carneige Institution}, address = {Washington, D.C. }, keywords = {climate, conference, cycles, Douglass, environment, historic, tree}, author = {Carneigie Institution of Washington} } @article {780, title = {Climate and Trees}, year = {1928}, keywords = {climate, climatology, Douglass, environment, tree ring}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {682, title = {Some Aspects of the Use of the Annual Rings in Trees in Climatic Study}, year = {1922}, keywords = {annual, climate, climatic study, Douglass, environment, tree rings}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {683, title = {Some Topographic and Climatic Characters in the Annual Ring of the Yellow Pines and Sequoias of the Southwest }, journal = {Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society}, volume = {LXI}, year = {1922}, keywords = {annual, characteristics, characters, climate, climatic, dates, dating, Douglass, environment, ring, sequoias, southwest, topographic, tree ring, tree rings, yellow pine}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {781, title = {Climatic Records in the Trunks of Trees}, year = {1917}, keywords = {climate, climatology, Douglass, environment, historic, tree ring}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {789, title = {Weather Cycles in the Growth of Big Trees}, year = {1908}, keywords = {climate, dendrochronology, Douglass, environment, historic, tree ring, weather}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {798, title = {Indications of a Rainy Period in Southern Peru}, volume = {XX}, year = {1892}, keywords = {climate, Douglass, environment, historic, peru, sun spot}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {806, title = {La Inundacion de 1868}, year = {1892}, keywords = {astronomy, climate, Douglass, environment, inundacion, spanish}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @proceedings {784, title = {Dendrochronology and Studies in Cyclics}, note = {This title is available through the Tree Ring Laboratory; please contact the lab for more information. }, keywords = {climatology, conference, cyclics, dendrochronology, Douglass, environment, historic, university of Pennsylvania}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} } @article {775, title = {Eistemperaturen in den Alpen}, note = {This publication is available through the Tree Ring Laboratory; please contact the lab for more information. }, keywords = {alpine, climatology, environment, temperature}, author = {Haeberli, Von} } @booklet {752, title = {Forest Damage by Distantly Transported Air Pollution}, note = {Copies of this are available through the Tree Ring Laboratory. Please contact the curator for more information. pcreasman@ltrr.arizona.edu}, keywords = {air pollution, damage, environment, forest, transported} }