Late Holocene Fire and Climate History of the Western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Results from Alluvial Stratigraphy and Tree-Ring Methods

In the past few decades, wildfires have increased in size and severity in the Southwest and across the western US. These recent trends in fire behavior are a drastic change in arid, ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the Southwest compared with tree-ring records of fire history for the pas...

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Main Author: Bigio, Erica Renee
Other Authors: Swetnam, Thomas W.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311587