# Schoennagel fire data from Pine Cliff, Colorado Front Range - IMPD US-TS013 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/37303 # Landing_Page_Description: NOAA Landing Page of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-fire-37303.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Fire History # # Dataset_DOI: # # Science_Keywords: # #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us-ts013.fhx # Data_Download_Description: Data - Fire History Exchange File (FHX); Pine Cliff Fire Scar Data # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us-ts013-noaa.txt # Data_Download_Description: Metadata - NOAA Template File; Pine Cliff Fire Scar Metadata #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2014-09-24 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2023-02-21 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Schoennagel fire data from Pine Cliff, Colorado Front Range - IMPD US-TS013 #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Schoennagel, Tania L.; Sherriff, Rosemary L.; Veblen, Thomas T. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: # This dataset was contributed as part of the Fire data from the Colorado Front Range 2014 research project (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/17194). Data were contributed to the project from the original data generators. # # Sample Storage Location: # Dating Method: Counted # Related ITRDB_Chronology: Not Applicable # # Fire scar data from this site are available in FHX2 format at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us-ts013.fhx # along with associated metadata at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us-ts013-noaa.txt # # Establishment date data from this site are available in CSV format at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/establishment/northamerica/us-ts013.dat # along with associated metadata at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/establishment/northamerica/us-ts013-estab-noaa.txt # # #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: # Grant: #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Schoennagel, T.L., R.L. Sherriff, and T.T. Veblen # Published_Date_or_Year: 2011.0 # Published_Title: Fire history and tree recruitment in the upper montane zone of the Colorado Front Range: implications for forest restoration # Journal_Name: Ecological Applications # Volume: 21.0 # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: 2210-2222 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1890/10-1222.1 # Publication_Place: # Publisher: # ISBN: # Online_Resource: # Other_Reference_Details: # Full_Citation: Schoennagel, T.L., R.L. Sherriff, and T.T. Veblen. 2011. Fire history and tree recruitment in the upper montane zone of the Colorado Front Range: implications for forest restoration. Ecological Applications 21: 2210-2222. # Abstract: # Forests experiencing moderate- or mixed-severity fire regimes are presumed to be widespread across the western United States, but few studies have characterized these complex disturbance regimes and their effects on contemporary forest structure. Restoration of pre-fire-suppression open-forest structure to reduce the risk of uncharacteristic stand-replacing fires is a guiding principle in forest management policy, but identifying which forests are clear candidates for restoration remains a challenge. We conducted dendroecological reconstructions of fire history and stand structure at 40 sites in the upper montane zone of the Colorado Front Range (2400–2800 m), sampled in proportion to the distribution of forest types in that zone (50% dominated by ponderosa pine, 28% by lodgepole pine, 12% by aspen, 10% by Douglas-fir). We characterized past fire severity based on remnant criteria at each site in order to assess the effect of fire history on tree establishment patterns, and we also evaluated the influence of fire suppression and climate. We found that 62% of the sites experienced predominantly moderate-severity fire, 38% burned at high severity, and no sites burned exclusively at low severity. The proportion of total tree and sapling establishment was significantly different among equal time periods based on a chi-square test, with highest tree and sapling establishment during the pre-fire-suppression period (1835–1919). Superposed epoch analysis revealed that fires burned during years of extreme drought (95% CI). The major pulse of tree establishment in the upper montane zone occurred during a multidecadal period of extreme drought conditions in the Colorado Front Range (1850–1889), during which 53% of the fires from the 1750–1989 period burned. In the upper montane zone of the Colorado Front Range, historical evidence suggests that these forests are resilient to prolonged periods of severe drought and associated severe fires. # #-------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Pine Cliff - IMPD US-TS013 # Location: North America>United States Of America>Colorado # Northernmost_Latitude: 39.931326 # Southernmost_Latitude: 39.931326 # Easternmost_Longitude: -105.445202 # Westernmost_Longitude: -105.445202 # Elevation_m: 2552 #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: US-TS013 # First_Year: 1857 # Last_Year: 2006 # Time_Unit: CE # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: fire scar dates # Notes: #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pinus contorta Douglas ex Loudon # Common_Name: lodgepole pine # Tree_Species_Code: PICO # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco # Common_Name: Douglas-fir # Tree_Species_Code: PSME # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Chronology Information: # Chronology: # #-------------------- # Variables # # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/PaST-thesaurus/SKOS/past-thesaurus-v1.0.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Short_name what,material,error,units,seasonality,data_type,detail,method,data_format,additional_information # ## age_ce age,,,year Common Era,,FIRE HISTORY;TREE RING,,,N, ## tree_events tree demographic and injury and fire event code,wood,,,,FIRE HISTORY;TREE RING,,,C,FHX2 data format; refer to IMPD documentation for description of codes # #-------------------- # Data: # To access data, use Data_Download_Resource links above.