Fire History Overview Fire History Overview Fire is an important process in many forest types.
Fire is most frequent in semi-arid forest types, but plays an important role in many others as well.
Dendrochronology is well-suited to fire history studies as it allows the precise comparison of events at all spatial scales from local to regional. Additionally, many forest processes operate on the scale of decades to centuries, thus, study of the tree-ring record is often the only practical way to gain this length of temporal perspective. Dendrochronologically dated fire histories have been developed for many forest types in many parts of the world and have been used to study local conditions as well as regional processes. Early loss of lower limbs to protect crown. Sprouting from surviving below-ground roots and stems.