<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Margolis, Ellis Quinn</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swetnam, T.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire History and Fire Climate Relationships in Upper Elevation Forests of the Southwestern United States</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">School of Natural Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AMO</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">climate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroclimatology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ENSO</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire history</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">forest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">madrean sky islands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mogollon plateau</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mountain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PDO</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">southwest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">teleconnection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">upper elevation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Watershed Management</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1375523671&amp;sid=1&amp;Fmt=2&amp;clientId=43922&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD.</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ph.D</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">182</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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 &amp;gt; 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 (&amp;gt;2000ha) stand-replacing fire patches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century droughts (e.g., 1950&amp;rsquo;s) and pluvials (e.g., 1910&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dissertation</style></work-type><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Please contact the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research for a copy of this dissertation. The file is too large to be uploaded at this time.&lt;/p&gt;</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Margolis, Ellis Quinn</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swetnam, T.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stand Replacing Fire History and Aspen Ecology in the Upper Rio Grande Basin</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Department of Renewable Natural Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">aspen</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">basin</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">colorado</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">conifer</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroecology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire history</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">new mexico</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rio grande</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">spruce fir</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">stand replacing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master of Science</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">94</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Dendroecological techniques were applied to reconstruct stand-replacing fire history in mixed conifer and spruce-fir forests in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Stand-replacing fire dates with annual accuracy and precision were determined using four lines of evidence for each of twelve sites within a 75,000 square kilometer area. The four lines of evidence were: (1) aspen inner-ring dates, (2) conifer death dates, (3) tree-ring width changes, or other morphological indicators of injury, and (4) fire scars. The annual precision of dating allowed the identification of significant synchrony of stand replacing fires among the 12 sites and regional surface fire events previously reconstructed from the large network of fire scar collections in the Southwest. Nearly all of these synchronous stand-replacing and surface fire years coincided with extreme droughts. This suggests that stand-replacing fire activity occurred primarily when drought conditions allowed fires to ignite and spread within these high elevation forests and/or for the spread of surface fires between lower and upper elevations. Fifty percent of reconstructed stand-replacing fires pre-dated large-scale Euro-American settlement in this region. This may suggest that land use practices (such as logging and mining) were not as important in promoting stand-replacing fires in these study sites, as compared with other areas in Colorado.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kaib, J. Mark</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swetnam, T.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire History in Riparian Canyon Pine-Oak Forests and the Intervening Desert Grasslands of the Southwest Borderlands: A Dendroecological, Historical, and Cultural Inquiry</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">School of Renewable Natural Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">apache</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">borderland</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cultural</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroecological</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">desert grassland</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ethnoecological</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire history</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">historical</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mexico</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oak</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">peacetime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">post settlement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">riparian</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">southwest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">spanish</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">wartime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Watershed Management</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MS</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Dendroecological, documentary, and ethnoecological evidence were combined to provide an integrated understanding of past natural and cultural fires in the Southwest Borderlands. Fire frequency for the desert grasslands was inferred from synchronous intercanyon fire events. Mean fire intervals range between 4-8 years in canyon pine-oak forests, 4-9 years in the intervening desert grasslands, and 5-9 years in the mixed-conifer forests. Riparian canyon pine-oak forests were important corridors for fire spread between the desert grasslands and higher-elevation forests. The decline of post-settlement (&amp;gt;1870s) fires typical of most forests in U.S., is not evident south of the border in Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Documentary evidence reveals the Apache had detailed knowledge of fire, that burning practices were controlled and limited, and ecosystem enhancement through intentional burning was not suggested. However, the common exception was burning practiced during wartime periods, principally by the Apache but also by the Spanish, Mexicans, and later Americans. Fire reconstructions indicate that wartime-period fires were significantly more frequent than peacetime periods at several canyon-rancherÍa sites.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abolt,Rena Ann Peck</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swetnam, T.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire Histories of Upper Elevation Forests in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico via Fire Scar and Stand Age Structure Analyses</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">School of Renewable Natural Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire regime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire scar</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">gila wilderness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">new mexico</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">stand age</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">suppression</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">upper elevation</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master of Science</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">120</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fire-scar analysis to identify fire events and stand age structure analysis to identify fire effects on survivorship of trees were used to reconstruct surface and crown fire regimes in upper elevation forests of the Gila Wilderness, NM. Fire regimes varied across forest type, but not necessarily across elevation. Prior to the twentieth century, (from 1706 to 1904), the mean interval for large fires was 8 years. During the twentieth century, (from 1904 to 1995), the mean fire return interval for large fires was 46 years. The virtual end of historically frequent fire regimes due to livestock grazing and fire suppression since the turn of the century has affected successional pathways of forest types across elevations, favoring later successional forest species and structures.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perkins, Dana Lee</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swetnam, T.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Dendroecological Assessment of Whitebark Pine in the Sawtooth Salmon River Region Idaho</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Department of Renewable Natural Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroclimatology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroctonus ponderosae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendroecology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">idaho</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pine beetle</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pinus albicaulis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sawtooth salmon river</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">whitebark pine</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1995</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master of Science</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">56</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) tree-ring chronologies of 700 to greater than 1,000 years in length were developed for four sites in the Sawtooth-Salmon River region, central Idaho. These ring-width chronologies are used to (1) assess the dendrochronological characteristics of this species, (2) detect annual mortality dates of whitebark pine attributed to a widespread mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopk.) epidemic during the 1909 to 1940 period, and (3) establish the response of whitebark pine tree ring-width growth to climate variables. Crossdating of whitebark pine tree-ring width patterns was verified. Ring-width indices had low mean sensitivity (0.123-0.174) typical of high elevation conifers in western North America, and variable first order autocorrelation (0.206-0.551). Mortality of dominant whitebark pine caused by mountain pine beetle had a maxima at 1930 on all four sites. Response functions and correlation analyses with state divisional weather records indicate that above average radial growth is positively correlated with winter and spring precipitation and inversely correlated with April temperature. These correlations appear to be a response to seasonal snowpack. Whitebark pine is a promising species for dendroclimatic studies.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paul Sheppard</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire Regime of the Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana) Forests of the Mt. San Jacinto State Park Wilderness, California</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">california</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">coring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire management</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire scar</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Limber pine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">lodgepole</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mt san jacinto</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mt san jacinto state park wilderness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pinus contortata</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">regime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">suppression</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">var murrayana</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">wedging</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">white fir</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1984</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/1984</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cornell University</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ithaca</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master of Science</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">93</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;For the purpose of providing recommendations for the fire management plan of the Mt. San Jacinto State Park Wilderness, California, the natural fire regime of the lodgepole pine forests within the wilderness was determined. Fire-scarred lodgepole pine trees were cored, and their growth rings crossdated against a composite ring series, to obtain fire date estimates of fires that have burned within the forests during the last 300 years. U.S. Forest Service fire records and personal accounts were also used to determine recent fire history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Results indicate that the fires within the lodgepole pine forests of Mt. San Jacinto probably were quite small (&amp;lt; 0.4 ha). Because of this, the fire regime is probably one of low-intensity fires. Fires started principally by lightning and they generally did not spread far because of low woody fuel loading on the ground. These small fires, however, occurred quite frequently throughout the lodgepole pine forests. Fires probably burned every one to two years, and in many years, more than one fire burned. The average fire return interval for separate locations within the lodgepole pine forests was not determined exactly because most of the burned trees had only one fire-scar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The effects of this fire-regime on the forest vegetation composition was determined. This was accomplished with multiple regression analyses of vegetative and physiographic data collected from the area of each verified fire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the 2500 to 2900 m elevation range, white fir generally increased in importance (relative basal area) over lodgepole pine as years since the fire increased. However, the relationships of lodgepole pine and white fir importances to the time since the fire were not statistically significant. Above 2800 m elevation, neither lodgepole pine nor limber pine importance was affected by the fire regime. Throughout the lodgepole pine forests of this wilderness area, the fire regime has not greatly affected the forest vegetation composition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To compare two methods of obtaining fire year estimates from living, fire-scarred trees, both wedging and coring was done on ten fire-scarred lodgepole pine trees. The rings of the wedges and cores were then crossdated against a composite ring series, and the respective fire year estimates of each method were compared for each tree. Seven pairs of wedges and cores were crossdated, and each pair gave the same fire year estimate for the respective tree. In the situation of single-scarred trees, the coring method, along with dendrochronology dating, should be attempted instead of wedging, which is more destructive to the tree than coring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Based on this study, I recommend that the fire management plan for the lodgepole pine forests of the Mt. San Jacinto State Park Wilderness contain two options for fire control. First, in areas that have heavy use by recreationists and cultural or historical benefits, fire suppression should begin immediately after a fire has been detected. Second, in all other areas, a &amp;ldquo;let burn&amp;rdquo; policy should be attempted, whereby the fire would be allowed to die out on its own. This would save the expense of fire suppression, which can be very costly in remote wilderness areas. These fires should be monitored in case they do burn near valuable areas. Prescribed burning is not recommended because of the weak relationship of the fire regime to the forest vegetation composition.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Please contact the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research to view this thesis.&lt;/p&gt;</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sutherland, Elaine Kennedy</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stokes, M.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Effects of Fire Exclusion on Growth in Mature Ponderosa Pine in Northern Arizona</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geoscience</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">age classes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chimney spring</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">competition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dendrochronology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dog hair thickets</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire exclusion</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">forest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mature</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">northern arizona</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">palmer drought severity indices</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pinus ponderosa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ponderosa pine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">radial growth</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">spearman rank correlation</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1983</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Arizona</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tucson</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master of Science</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Dendrochronological techniques were used to assess the effect of fire exclusion on the radial growth of two age classes (approximately 150 to 300 years old) of mature ponderosa pine. Decline in average radial growth in both classes is coincidental with the establishment of a large ponderosa pine seedling crop in 1919 that has since become an extensive stand of stagnant, overcrowded saplings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;F and t tests of tree ring indices comparing the time period before and after 1920 show that growth has significantly declined since 1920 in both age classes. F and t tests comparing the two age classes suggest that growth was similar before 1920, but the older age class shows a significantly stronger growth decline than the younger age class. Spearman Rank Correlation tests indicate that in both groups there was no trend or a tend toward increasing tree ring indices before 1920 in both age classes, but that after 1920 there was a strong, significant trend toward decreasing tree ring indices in both groups, and that the trend is stronger in the older age class. These results suggest that the older trees are experiencing a more pronounced growth suppression effect than the younger trees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;October and July Palmer Drought Severity Indices from 1931 to 1976 were tested for trend toward drought using the Spearman Rank Correlation. There was no trend toward drought during these months, which have the most significant climatic relationship to ponderosa pine growth in northern Arizona. Therefore the growth decline at Chimney Spring may not be attributed to climate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No environmental factor has changed at Chimney Spring, other than fire exclusion and subsequent seedling establishment. Competition for soil moisture and nutrients, reduced nutrient cycling and soil moisture losses from litter interception may all be factors contributing to the growth decline in the mature ponderosa pines at Chimney Spring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Key words: age classes, competition, dendrochronology, &amp;ldquo;dog-hair&amp;rdquo; thickets, fire exclusion, forest, northern Arizona, Pinus ponderosa, radial growth&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;10-year index:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Declining radial growth in mature ponderosa pine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Difference in growth rates between age classes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dendrochronological techniques to analyze growth rates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fire exclusion effects on radial growth rates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Palmer Drought Severity Index and radial growth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reduced soil moisture from competition by young trees and from litter interception&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schweingruber, Fritz H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kontic, Raymond</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Winkler-Seifert, Amanda</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eine jahrringanalytische Studie zum Nadelbaumsterben in der Schweiz</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berichte Rapports</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">climate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">damages</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fir</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">growth</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">growth reduction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pollution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Switzerland</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1983</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/1983</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eidgenossische Anstalt fur das Forstliche Versuchswesen</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Birmensdorf</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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's central plateau show growth reductions.  Local damages exist in the Rhone-valley since 1920. </style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">253</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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. </style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>19</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stage, Albert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tree Ring Indices and Statistics</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Haugen</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">indices</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statistics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tree ring</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1968</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">160</style></volume></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smith, Homer</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kamongo</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">kamongo</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sun spots</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1932</style></year></dates></record></records></xml>