Sentence examples for historical fires from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jackson, now the vice president for business development at the New-York Histookcal Society, also took her to the meat market, architectural oddities, and sites of historical fires.

This is in part due to the methods used to reconstruct historical fires in complex, heterogeneous landscapes with varying fire severities.

Case studies vary from accurate reconstructions of historical fires to anomalous results from known fire events where charcoal fragments were more prevalent in zones where it was known no burning had occurred.

The results presented here establish confidence that the patterns and processes of the lowland tropical rainforests studied at Los Amigos are not affected by intense or recurrent historical fires.

I speculate that the late-1800s peak in aspen recruitment was driven primarily by the occurrence of the last historical fires throughout the intermountain West and that the 1970s and 1980s peak was driven by improved moisture conditions brought about by a shift to a positive phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and a persistent negative phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

Variability in the severity of historical fires may also explain the variability in the response of vegetation studied here, as this has been shown to be an important consideration in boreal ecosystems [34], [35].

Those who study historical fire patterns argue that the sources of ignition are irrelevant.

"In parts of the northern Rockies, the historical fire-return interval is 100 years," Bassman said, referring to the average time between fires in a forest.

Indeed, one of the Science report's co-authors, Tom Swetnam, a specialist in the study of tree rings at the University of Arizona, has long studied the influence of climate on historical fire patterns.

The time series has been normalized to current day exposure in order to suggest the likely losses if all events had taken place during the 2008/2009 fire season; in other words, as if each historical fire had impacted upon today's distribution of houses and population.

8Simulates wildfire with STANDCARB, using historical fire regimes to set burn frequency and severity.