Collaborative Research: Fire, Climate and Forest History in Mongolia

SPONSOR:

National Science Foundation (NSF)

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$171,245

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

West Virginia University, National University of Mongolia, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc. 

WEBSITE:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049714&HistoricalAwards=false

PUBLICATIONS:

Saladyga, T.M., A. Hessl, B. Nachin, and N. Pederson. "Privatization, Drought, and Fire Exclusion in the Tuul River Watershed, Mongolia," Ecosystems, v.16, 2013, p. 1139. doi:10.1007/s10021-013-9673-0

Pederson, N., C. Leland, B. Nachin, A. Hessl, A.R. Bell, D. Martin-Benito, T. Saladyga, B. Suran, P.M. Brown, and N.K. Davi. "Three Centuries of Shifting Hydroclimatic Regimes Across the Mongolian Breadbasket," Agricultural and Forest Meteorolog, v.178-179, 2013, p. 10. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.07.003

Poulter, B., N. Pederson, H. Liu, Z. Zhu, R. D'Arrigo, P. Ciais, N. Davi, D. Frank, C. Leland, R. Myneni, S. Piao, and T. Wang. "Recent trends in Inner Asian forest dynamics to temperature and precipitation indicate high sensitivity to climate change," Agricultural & Forest Meteorology, v.178-179, 2013, p. 31. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.12.006

Davi, N., N. Pederson, C. Leland, B. Nachin, B. Suran, and G. Jacoby. "Is eastern Mongolia drying? A long-term perspective of a multi-decadal trend," Water Research Resources, v.49, 2013, p. 151. doi:10.1029/2012WR011834

Hessl, A.. "Pathways for Climate Change Effects on Fire: Models, Data, and Uncertainties," Progress in Physical Geography, 2011, p. 393.

A. Hessl, U. Ariya, P. Brown, O. Byambasuren, T. Green, G. Jacoby, E. Kennedy Sutherland, B. Nachin, R. S. Maxwell, N. Pederson, L. De Grandpre, T. Saladyga, and J. C. Tardif. "Reconstructing Fire History in Central Mongolia from Tree-Ring Data," International Journal of Wildland Fire, v.21, 2011, p. 86.

De Grandpré, L., J. Tardif, A. Hessl, N. Pederson, F. Conciatori, T. Green, O. Byambasuren and B. Nachi. "Climate signals in Pinus siberica, Pinus sylvestris and Larix sibirica tree-ring chronologies from north-central Mongolia: change in climate sensitivity," Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2011, p. 1242.

KEYWORDS

drought fire hydroclimate ocean and climate physics paleoclimate tree rings land use climate change ecosystems

THEMES

Modeling and Adapting to Future Climate