ArticleScience advances2022
Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE.
Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- The influence of changing fire regimes on specialized plant-animal interactions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Land use, fire and climate contributed to deforestation on the Pacific islands.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on wildfires, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue across geographic scales. We use a network of 4824 fire-scarred trees in Southwest United States dry forests to analyze up to 400 years of fire-climate relationships at local, landscape, and regional scales for traditional territories of three different Indigenous cultures. Comparison of fire-year and prior climate conditions for periods of intensive cultural use and less-intensive use indicates that Indigenous fire management weakened fire-climate relationships at local and landscape scales. This effect did not scale up across the entire region because land use was spatially and temporally heterogeneous at that scale. Restoring or emulating Indigenous fire practices could buffer climate impacts at local scales but would need to be repeatedly implemented at broad scales for broader regional benefits.
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