Collaborative Research: Holocene Fire-Climate Linkages In Southern South America: Explaining Regional Responses To Large-scale Climate Forcing

提供资金以研究气候变化、火灾和生态系统之间的相互作用。 该项目的具体目标是更好地了解：（1）受夏季风和西风带核心区ENSO变化影响的南美洲火灾和植被历史：（2）火灾活动和植被变化在多个时间尺度上的相互作用;（3）以古气候为代表的过去气候变化和气候变率，火灾重建和古气候模型模拟。这项研究有望提供数据，并更广泛地了解环境变化及其与气候的关系。该项目将支持国际科学伙伴关系和培训机会，为美国和国外的研究生和本科生创造教育经验，并扩大最近创建的古火记录国际数据库，该数据库满足科学界以及自然资源管理者和政策制定者的需求。

Funding is provided to examine the interaction of climate variability, fire, and ecosystems. The specific objectives of this project are to gain a better understanding of: (1) fire and vegetation history in South America that is influenced by summer monsoons and ENSO variability at the core region of westerlies; (2) interactions among fire activity and vegetation change on multiple time scales; and (3) past climate change and climate variability as represented by paleo-fire reconstructions and paleoclimate model simulations.The research holds the promise of providing data and a broader understanding of environmental change and its relation to climate. The project will support international scientific partnerships and training opportunities, create education experiences for graduate and undergraduate students in the U.S. and abroad, and expand the recently created international database of paleo-fire records, which serves the needs of the scientific community, as well as natural resource managers and policy makers.