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Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America by Kitzberger, Thomas, Falk, Donald A, Westerling, Anthony L, Swetnam, Thomas W

“…Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a…”
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Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492–1900 CE by Liebmann, Matthew J., Farella, Joshua, Roos, Christopher I., Stack, Adam, Martini, Sarah, Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…Native American populations declined between 1492 and 1900 CE, instigated by the European colonization of the Americas. However, the magnitude, tempo, and…”
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Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States by Williams, A. Park, Allen, Craig D., Millar, Constance I., Swetnam, Thomas W., Michaelsen, Joel, Still, Christopher J., Leavitt, Steven W., MacDonald, Glen M.

“…In recent decades, intense droughts, insect outbreaks, and wildfires have led to decreasing tree growth and increasing mortality in many temperate forests. We…”
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Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality by Park Williams, A., Allen, Craig D., Macalady, Alison K., Griffin, Daniel, Woodhouse, Connie A., Meko, David M., Swetnam, Thomas W., Rauscher, Sara A., Seager, Richard, Grissino-Mayer, Henri D., Dean, Jeffrey S., Cook, Edward R., Gangodagamage, Chandana, Cai, Michael, McDowell, Nate G.

“…As the climate changes, drought may reduce tree productivity and survival across many forest ecosystems; however, the relative influence of specific climate…”
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The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth by Bowman, David M. J. S., Balch, Jennifer, Artaxo, Paulo, Bond, William J., Cochrane, Mark A., D'Antonio, Carla M., DeFries, Ruth, Johnston, Fay H., Keeley, Jon E., Krawchuk, Meg A., Kull, Christian A., Mack, Michelle, Moritz, Max A., Pyne, Stephen, Roos, Christopher I., Scott, Andrew C., Sodhi, Navjot S., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire-making species, but 'natural' (i.e. independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on…”
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Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon by Guiterman, Christopher H., Swetnam, Thomas W., Dean, Jeffrey S.

“…An enduring mystery from the great houses of Chaco Canyon is the origin of more than 240,000 construction timbers. We evaluate probable timber procurement…”
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Fire in the Earth System by Bowman, David M.J.S, Balch, Jennifer K, Artaxo, Paulo, Bond, William J, Carlson, Jean M, Cochrane, Mark A, D'Antonio, Carla M, DeFries, Ruth S, Doyle, John C, Harrison, Sandy P, Johnston, Fay H, Keeley, Jon E, Krawchuk, Meg A, Kull, Christian A, Marston, J. Brad, Moritz, Max A, Prentice, I. Colin, Roos, Christopher I, Scott, Andrew C, Swetnam, Thomas W, van der Werf, Guido R, Pyne, Stephen J

“…Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns…”
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Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America by Kitzberger, Thomas, Brown, Peter M, Heyerdahl, Emily K, Swetnam, Thomas W, Veblen, Thomas T

“…Widespread synchronous wildfires driven by climatic variation, such as those that swept western North America during 1996, 2000, and 2002, can result in major…”
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Multi-scale controls of historical forest-fire regimes: new insights from fire-scar networks by Falk, Donald A, Heyerdahl, Emily K, Brown, Peter M, Farris, Calvin, Fulé, Peter Z, McKenzie, Donald, Swetnam, Thomas W, Taylor, Alan H, Van Horne, Megan L

“…Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire…”
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The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia by Bigio, Erica R, Swetnam, Thomas W, Baisan, Christopher H, Guiterman, Christopher H, Kisilyakhov, Yegor K, Andreev, Sergey G, Batotsyrenov, Eduard A, Ayurzhanaev, Alexander A

“…Abstract Every year, millions of hectares burn across Siberia, driven by a combination of warming temperatures, regional drought and human-caused ignitions…”
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Average Stand Age from Forest Inventory Plots Does Not Describe Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America by Stevens, Jens T, Safford, Hugh D, North, Malcolm P, Fried, Jeremy S, Gray, Andrew N, Brown, Peter M, Dolanc, Christopher R, Dobrowski, Solomon Z, Falk, Donald A, Farris, Calvin A, Franklin, Jerry F, Fulé, Peter Z, Hagmann, R Keala, Knapp, Eric E, Miller, Jay D, Smith, Douglas F, Swetnam, Thomas W, Taylor, Alan H

“…Quantifying historical fire regimes provides important information for managing contemporary forests. Historical fire frequency and severity can be estimated…”
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Post-fire forest dynamics and climate variability affect spatial and temporal properties of spruce beetle outbreaks on a Sky Island mountain range by O’Connor, Christopher D., Lynch, Ann M., Falk, Donald A., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…•Spruce distribution expanded into mixed-conifer forest following fire exclusion.•Outbreak duration and size increased following spruce range expansion.•Spruce…”
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Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation by Guiterman, Christopher H., Margolis, Ellis Q., Baisan, Christopher H., Falk, Donald A., Allen, Craig D., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…Unraveling the effects of climate and land use on historical fire regimes provides important insights into broader human–fire–climate dynamics, which are…”
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Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future by Swetnam, Thomas W., Allen, Craig D., Betancourt, Julio L.

“…Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of ecosystems. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the…”
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Long-Term Persistence and Fire Resilience of Oak Shrubfields in Dry Conifer Forests of Northern New Mexico by Guiterman, Christopher H., Margolis, Ellis Q., Allen, Craig D., Falk, Donald A., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…Extensive high-severity fires are creating large shrubfields in many dry conifer forests of the interior western USA, raising concerns about forest-to-shrub…”
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Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves by Swetnam, T.W

“…Fire scars in giant sequoia [Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) Buchholz] were used to reconstruct the spatial and temporal pattern of surface fires that…”
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Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA by O’Connor, Christopher D., Falk, Donald A., Lynch, Ann M., Swetnam, Thomas W.

“…•We compared recent fire dynamics to those of historically reconstructed fires.•Patterns of fire frequency, size, and severity were stable prior to…”
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Inter-hemispheric synchrony of forest fires and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation by Kitzberger, Thomas, Swetnam, Thomas W., Veblen, Thomas T.

“…Fire histories were compared between the south-western United States and northern Patagonia, Argentina using both documentary records (1914-87 and 1938-96,…”
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Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States by Roos, Christopher I., Swetnam, Thomas W., Ferguson, T. J., Liebmann, Matthew J., Loehman, Rachel A., Welch, John R., Margolis, Ellis Q., Guiterman, Christopher H., Hockaday, William C., Aiuvalasit, Michael J., Battillo, Jenna, Farella, Joshua, Kiahtipes, Christopher A.

“…The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire…”
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Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA by Swetnam, Thomas W., Farella, Joshua, Roos, Christopher I., Liebmann, Matthew J., Falk, Donald A., Allen, Craig D.

“…Interannual climate variations have been important drivers of wildfire occurrence in ponderosa pine forests across western North America for at least 400…”
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