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Land, Volume 14, Issue 3

2025 March - 224 articles

Cover Story: The past influence of the climate and fire on forests in southern New England is debated. This study compared locations of late-Holocene Indigenous settlements with estimated tree abundances from pollen and survey records. Fire-tolerant vegetation like oak (Quercus spp.) was often more abundant near settlements (i.e., 86–91% fire-tolerant trees). Warmer temperatures and distance to a settlement were predictors of fire-tolerant tree abundance in the 17th–18th centuries. Oak abundance increased when the mean annual temperature exceeded 8 °C and within 16 km of settlements. Fire-tolerant vegetation was most correlated with distance to a settlement in areas with 7–9 °C temperature; widespread burning in warmer areas potentially weakened correlations. Indigenous burning in warmer, low-elevation areas created patterns of fire-tolerant vegetation. View this paper
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