Sentences with phrase «fire scars»

Other research published shows that feral cats actively select hunting grounds in recent fire scars.

I had been thinking about fire scars all along, but always thinking they were not relevant.

Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats.

Scientists reconstructed the 3,000 - year history of fire by dating fire scars on ancient giant sequoia trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.

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Analyzing fire scars in the growth rings of old wood, the researchers determined that the last widespread blaze on the upper elevations of the mountain had taken place in 1685.

Dating of relatively old fires (back to 450 years ago) was possible using fire scars on living and standing dead stems.

Fire Scars with other evidence might prove the MWP in Giant Forest but there isn't enough here.

«The Rim Fire is starting to hit all those old fire scars.»

Adrian Rocha of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and colleagues placed sensors across the 1000 - square - kilometre fire scar left by a blaze in 2007 on the Brooks mountain range in northern Alaska.

Also, cats in the study area select for such intense fire scars within their home range27, and the long - distance movements reported here appear to be an extension of that behaviour.

Both variables had large effect sizes, with a home range coefficient of 11.3 (z = 2.75, P = 0.01) and an intense fire scar coefficient of 21.04 (z = 2.54, P = 0.011).

Visiting the Park Hiking through Muir Woods, you will see many large fire scars.

Cross-dating of pre-fire trees was used to date past fire events when fire scar and post-fire tree evidence was lacking.

Whereas recent fires are identified rather easily from fire scars and charred wood at the soil surface, old post-fire stands show evidence of fire from charcoal located on, within, or beneath the modern organic soil horizon.

Exceptionally old - aged fire scars are found only on long - lived Gymnosperms (Swetnam 1993).

FHX2 is software that helps analyze fire history using fire scars and other fire - related injuries found in the annual growth rings of trees.

The following methods were used to date the last fire and sometimes the previous fire occurring at a site: dating of fire scars, dating of post-fire trees, dating of pre-fire trees, radiocarbon dating of charcoal and clonometry.

To determine whether cats» journeys were purposefully directed towards intense fire scars, we compared each actual journey with 100 correlated random walk simulations using the same number of segments, along with the same turn - angles and segment lengths; yet with the sequence of segments randomised.

Fire scars on black spruce stems were used to date recent fires.

Tree rings and fire scars in ancient pines, giant sequoias and bigcone Douglas - fir trees reveal long - term patterns and causes of changes in fire regimes in those forests, including the roles of people and climate variations.

Subsequent dates indicate the fire scars.

It's a scorching 42 °C and the tropical savannah alongside the road is bone dry, a patchwork of fire scars, red dirt and brown leaves.

We suggest that cats make these journeys to intense fire scars to take advantage of short pulses of high prey availability, where no such refuges remain32.

The upper image shows a grove of Yosemite's Big Trees as they looked in 1890 (note the fire scars on several).

We have now compiled more than 800 fire scar and tree - age based fire histories from British Columbia to northern Mexico, and the drop off in surface fire regimes shows clearly in most of these sites within the forest types named above, but with variable timing depending on land use history.

Based on fire scars of old living trees from 64 southwest study sites, fires were 5 to 15 times more numerous and widespread between 1700 and 1880 than during the 1990s.