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Published in Landscape Ecology 29: 437-450. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10980-013-9974-x<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Land use history has altered natural disturbance dynamics, causing widespread modifications of the earth\u2019s forests. The aim of this study is to reconstruct a regional, spatially-explicit, fire and logging history for a large southern boreal forest landscape (6,050 km2<\/sup>) of eastern Canada. We then examined the long-term influence of land use history, fires, and physiographical gradients on the area\u2019s disturbances regimes, present-day age structure and tree species composition. Spatially-explicit fire (1820\u20132005) and logging (1900\u20132005) histories were reconstructed from forestry maps, terrestrial forest inventories and historical records (local newspapers, travel notes, regional historical reviews). Logistic regression was used to model the occurrence of major boreal tree species at the regional scale, in relation to their disturbance history and physiographical variables. The interplay of elevation and fire history was found to explain a large part of the present-day distribution of the four species studied. We conclude that human-induced fires following the colonization activities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have increased fire frequency and the dominance of fire-adapted species at lower elevations. At higher elevations, the low historical fire frequency has fostered the dominance of fire-sensitive species. Twentieth-century forestry practices and escaped settlement fires have generated a forest landscape dominated by younger forest habitats than in presettlement times. The expected increase of wildfire activity in North America\u2019s eastern boreal forest, in conjunction with continued forest management, could have significant consequences on the resilience of boreal forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Landscape Ecology 29: 437-450. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10980-013-9974-x Land use history has altered natural disturbance dynamics, causing widespread modifications of the earth\u2019s forests. The aim of this study is to reconstruct a regional, spatially-explicit, fire and logging history for a large southern boreal forest landscape (6,050 km2) of eastern Canada. 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