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dc.contributor.authorManton, Michael
dc.contributor.authorRuffner, Charles
dc.contributor.authorKibirkštis, Gintautas
dc.contributor.authorBrazaitis, Gediminas
dc.contributor.authorMarozas, Vitas
dc.contributor.authorPukienė, Rūtilė
dc.contributor.authorMakrickiene, Ekaterina
dc.contributor.authorAngelstam, Per Krister
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-31T07:27:31Z
dc.date.available2022-08-31T07:27:31Z
dc.date.created2022-05-20T15:09:02Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationLand. 2022, 11 (2)en_US
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3014596
dc.description.abstractFire is an important natural disturbance and a driver of hemi-boreal forest successional trajectories, structural complexity, and biodiversity. Understanding the historic fire regime is an important step towards sustainable forest management. Focusing on Lithuania’s hemi-boreal forests, we first mapped the potential natural fire regimes based on the relationship between site conditions, vegetation, and fire frequency using the ASIO model. The ASIO model revealed that all the fire frequency categories (Absent, Seldom, Intermittent, Often) are found in Lithuania. Scots pine forests dominated the often fire frequency category (92%). Secondly, focusing on a fire-prone forest landscape, Dzukija, we analyzed the fire occurrence of Scots pine forest types using dendrochronological records. We sampled and cross-dated 132 Scots pine samples with fire scars from four dry forest stands (n = 92) and four peatland forest stands (n = 40), respectively. In total, the fire history analysis revealed 455 fire scars and 213 fire events during the period of 1742–2019. The Weibull median fire intervals were 2.7 years (range 1–34) for the dry forest types and 6.3 years (range 1–27) for the peatland forest types. Analysis pre- and post-1950 showed the Weibull median fire interval increased from 2.2 to 7.2 for the dry forest types but decreased from 6.2 to 5.2. for the peatland forest types. A superposed epoch analysis revealed significant precipitation fluxes prior to the fire events after 1950. Thus, the Dzukija landscape of Lithuania has been strongly shaped by both human and naturally induced fires. The combination of theory (the ASIO model) with the examination of biological archives can be used to help guide sustainable forest management to emulate forest disturbances related to fire. As traditional forest management focusing on wood production has eliminated fire, and effectively simplified forest ecosystems, we recommend introducing educational programs to communicate the benefits and history of forest fires as well as adaptive management trials that use low-intensity prescribed burning of Scots pine stands.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectbiodiversity conservationen_US
dc.subjectcultural burningen_US
dc.subjectforest dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectforest managementen_US
dc.subjectpattern and processen_US
dc.subjectforest disturbance and successionen_US
dc.titleFire Occurrence in Hemi-Boreal Forests: Exploring Natural and Cultural Scots Pine Fire Regimes Using Dendrochronology in Lithuaniaen_US
dc.title.alternativeFire Occurrence in Hemi-Boreal Forests: Exploring Natural and Cultural Scots Pine Fire Regimes Using Dendrochronology in Lithuaniaen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.source.pagenumber25en_US
dc.source.volume11en_US
dc.source.journalLanden_US
dc.source.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/land11020260
dc.identifier.cristin2026047
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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