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The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site."},"dataType":"FIRE HISTORY","investigators":"Farris, C.A.","investigatorDetails":[{"firstName":"Calvin","lastName":"Farris","initials":"C.A.","orcId":"0000-0001-9748-4432"}],"version":"1.0","funding":[],"studyNotes":"\r\nThis dataset was contributed as part of the North American Tree-ring Fire Scar Synthesis (NAFSS) project (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/34853). Data were contributed to the project from the original data generators.\r\n\r\nSample Storage Location: Laboratory of Tree-Ring, University of Arizona\r\nDating Method: Dated\r\nRelated ITRDB_Chronology: Not Applicable\r\n\r\nFire scar data from this site are available in FHX2 format at:\r\n  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us02_015.fhx\r\nalong with associated metadata at:\r\n  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us02_015-noaa.txt","onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/37793","difMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-fire-37793.xml","isoMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/iso/xml/noaa-fire-37793.xml","originalSource":null,"dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/fire-history","studyCode":"US02_015","scienceKeywords":["PIAZ","Pinus arizonica Engelm.","Gambel oak","QUGA","Quercus gambelii Nutt.","Arizona pine"],"reconstruction":"N","contributionDate":"2022-04-06","entryId":"noaa-fire-37793","earliestYearBP":177,"mostRecentYearBP":-51,"earliestYearCE":1773,"mostRecentYearCE":2001,"publication":[{"author":{"name":"Calvin A. Farris, Christopher H. Baisan, Donald A. Falk,  Stephen R. Yool and Thomas W. Swetnam"},"pubYear":2010,"title":"Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest","journal":"Ecological Applications","volume":"20","edition":null,"issue":"6","pages":"1598-1614","reportNumber":null,"citation":"Calvin A. Farris, Christopher H. Baisan, Donald A. Falk,  Stephen R. Yool and Thomas W. Swetnam. 2010. Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest. Ecological Applications, 20(6), 1598-1614. doi: 10.1890/09-1535.1","type":"publication","identifier":{"type":"doi","id":"10.1890/09-1535.1","url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-1535.1"},"abstract":"Fire scars are used widely to reconstruct historical fire regime parameters in forests around the world. Because fire scars provide incomplete records of past fire occurrence at discrete points in space, inferences must be made to reconstruct fire frequency and extent across landscapes using spatial networks of fire-scar samples. Assessing the relative accuracy of fire-scar fire history reconstructions has been hampered due to a lack of empirical comparisons with independent fire history data sources. We carried out such a comparison in a 2780-ha ponderosa pine forest on Mica Mountain in southern Arizona (USA) for the time period 19372000. Using documentary records of fire perimeter maps and ignition locations, we compared reconstructions of key spatial and temporal fire regime parameters developed from documentary fire maps and independently collected fire-scar data (n = 60 plots). We found that fire-scar data provided spatially representative and complete inventories of all major fire years (>100 ha) in the study area but failed to detect most small fires. There was a strong linear relationship between the percentage of samples recording fire scars in a given year (i.e., fire-scar synchrony) and total area burned for that year (y = 0.0003x + 0.0087, r2 = 0.96). There was also strong spatial coherence between cumulative fire frequency maps interpolated from fire-scar data and ground-mapped fire perimeters. Widely reported fire frequency summary statistics varied little between fire history data sets: fire-scar natural fire rotations (NFR) differed by <3 yr from documentary records (29.6 yr); mean fire return intervals (MFI) for large-fire years (i.e., e25% of study area burned) were identical between data sets (25.5 yr); fire-scar MFIs for all fire years differed by 1.2 yr from documentary records. The known seasonal timing of past fires based on documentary records was furthermore reconstructed accurately by observing intra-annual ring position of fire scars and using knowledge of tree-ring growth phenology in the Southwest. Our results demonstrate clearly that representative landscape-scale fire histories can be reconstructed accurately from spatially distributed fire-scar samples.","pubRank":"1"}],"site":[{"NOAASiteId":"60799","siteName":"Mica Mountain - IMPD US02_015","siteCode":null,"mappable":"Y","locationName":"Continent>North America>United States Of America>Arizona","geo":{"geoType":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"POINT","coordinates":["32.19976","-110.53"]},"properties":{"southernmostLatitude":"32.19976","northernmostLatitude":"32.19976","westernmostLongitude":"-110.53","easternmostLongitude":"-110.53","minElevationMeters":"2201","maxElevationMeters":"2201"}},"paleoData":[{"dataTableName":"US02_015","NOAADataTableId":"54746","earliestYear":1773,"mostRecentYear":2001,"timeUnit":"CE","earliestYearBP":177,"mostRecentYearBP":-51,"earliestYearCE":1773,"mostRecentYearCE":2001,"coreLengthMeters":null,"dataTableNotes":null,"species":[{"speciesCode":"QUGA","scientificName":"Quercus gambelii Nutt.","resourceId":null,"commonName":["Gambel oak"]},{"speciesCode":"PIAZ","scientificName":"Pinus arizonica Engelm.","resourceId":"http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:196911-2","commonName":["Arizona pine"]}],"dataFile":[{"fileUrl":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us02_015.fhx","urlDescription":"Data - Fire History Exchange File (FHX)","linkText":"Mica Mountain Fire Scar Data","variables":[{"cvDataType":"FIRE HISTORY|TREE RING","cvWhat":"formation property>event layer>tree demographic and injury and fire event code","cvMaterial":"biological material>tissue>wood","cvError":null,"cvUnit":"dimensionless","cvSeasonality":null,"cvDetail":null,"cvMethod":null,"cvAdditionalInfo":"FHX2 data format; refer to IMPD documentation for description of codes","cvFormat":"Character","cvShortName":"tree_events"},{"cvDataType":"FIRE HISTORY|TREE RING","cvWhat":"age variable>age","cvMaterial":null,"cvError":null,"cvUnit":"time unit>age unit>year Common Era","cvSeasonality":null,"cvDetail":null,"cvMethod":null,"cvAdditionalInfo":null,"cvFormat":"Numeric","cvShortName":"age_ce"}],"NOAAKeywords":["earth science>paleoclimate>fire history>fire scar dates"]},{"fileUrl":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us02_015-noaa.txt","urlDescription":"Metadata - NOAA Template File","linkText":"Mica Mountain Fire Scar Metadata","variables":[],"NOAAKeywords":["earth science>paleoclimate>fire history>fire scar dates"]}]}]}],"reference":{"pastThesaurusSkos":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/skos/past-thesaurus.rdf","pastThesaurusExplorer":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/cvterms","gcmdKeywordThesaurus":"https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords"},"dataLicenseDescription":null,"dataLicenseUrl":null}