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Appendix A. Additional fire, model, and climate data.
Table A1. Seasonal distribution (number and percent) of fire scars based on the position of the fire scar within the tree ring. The seasonality at Rustler Park was reported as percentages only by Seklecki et al. (1996).
Site |
Season determined |
Season not determined |
Dormant |
Early earlywood |
Middle earlywood |
Late earlywood |
Latewood | |
Mesa de las Guacamayas, Chihuahua, México | ||||||||
MP | 227 (66%) | 119 (34%) | 44 (19%) | 44 (19%) | 102 (45%) | 33 (15%) | 4 (2%) | |
PS | 104 (74%) | 37 (26%) | 21 (20%) | 27 (26%) | 43 (42%) | 10 (10%) | 2 (2%) | |
RT | 293 (69%) | 132 (31%) | 68 (23%) | 60 (21%) | 120 (41%) | 43 (15%) | 2 (1%) | |
AB | 142 (61%) | 90 (39%) | 35 (25%) | 36 (25%) | 60 (42%) | 11 (8%) | 0 | |
Mean | 67.5% | 32.5% | 21.8% | 22.8% | 42.5% | 12.0% | 1.3% | |
Rustler Park, Arizona, U.S.A. | ||||||||
RPK | 100% | 0 | 38.2% | 13.2% | 41.2% | 7.4% | 0 |
Table A2. Parameters of empirical logistic regression models based on current-year and 1- and 2-year lagged PDSI values as predictors of actual fires at Mesa de las Guacamayas (MDG) and Rustler Park (RPK). Logistic model form given in text.
Site | Category |
Modeling dates |
α | β1 | β2 |
MDG | All Fire Dates | 1733-2003 | -1.244 | -0.361 | 0.355 |
25%-Scarred Fire Dates | -2.194 | -0.473 | 0.411 | ||
RPK | All Fire Dates | 1733-1892 | -0.722 | -0.349 | 0.343 |
25%-Scarred Fire Dates | -1.798 | -0.541 | 0.558 |
Fig. A1. Reconstructed Palmer Drought Severity Index (Cook et al. 2004) averaged across the four southwestern grid points mapped in Fig. 1. After 1990, PDSI values are averaged across only the U.S. grid points mapped in Fig. 1.