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Disturbance and climatic influences on age structure of ponderosa pine at the pine/grassland ecotone, Colorado Front Range
Authors:Joy Nystrom  Mast  Thomas T  Veblen Yan B  Linhart
Institution:Department of Geography and Public Planning, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, U.S.A.;Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.;Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.
Abstract:Abstract. In the Colorado Front Range, disturbances and climatic variation influence stand structure of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) along the lower timberline ecotone. Over the past 100 years there has been a shift to a greater density and extent of ponderosa pine at the forest-grassland boundaries. Ponderosa pine regeneration at lower timberline appears to be influenced by fires in the 1860s and decreased grazing pressure in the 1970s–1980s. Climatic variation may also have influenced age structure, even though analyses of age structure at a 10-year class scale prevented the detection of climatic influences occurring at a finer scale. These changes in disturbance regimes, possibly together with moister springs/early summers, created favourable conditions for the increase in density and extent of ponderosa pine at lower timberline ecotone.
Keywords:Dendrochronology  timberline  fire  grazing
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