Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Author ORCID Identifier
Ellis Margolis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-9005
Andreas Wion https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0701-2843
Sean Parks https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2982-5255
Jeanne Portier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9706-5155
Volume
34
Issue
1
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Publication Date
1-3-2025
Journal Article Version
Version of Record
First Page
1
Last Page
14
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
Aim: Increasing aridity has driven widespread synchronous fire occurrence in recent decades across North America. The lack of historical (pre-1880) fire records limits our ability to understand long-term continental fire-climate dynamics. The goal of this study is to use tree-ring reconstructions to determine the relationships between spatiotemporal patterns in historical climate and widespread fire occurrence in North American forests, and whether they are stable through time. This information will address a major knowledge gap required to inform projections of future fire.
Location: North American Forests.
Time Period: 1750–1880 CE.
Major Taxa Studied: Trees.
Methods: We applied regionalisation methods to tree-ring reconstructions of historical summer soil moisture and annual fire occurrence to independently identify broad- and fine-scale climate and fire regions based on common inter-annual variability.
Recommended Citation
Margolis, E., Wion, A., Abatzoglou, J., Daniels, L., Falk, D., Guiterman, C., Johnston, J., Kipfmueller, K., Lafon, C., Loehman, R., Lonergan, M., Naficy, C., Parisien, M.-A., Parks, S., Portier, J., Stambaugh, M., Whitman, E., Williams, A.P. and Yocom, L. (2025), Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880). Global Ecol Biogeogr, 34: e13937. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13937