Charster User's Guide

CHARSTER
0.8.3

Essentials

- Introduction
- Overview
- Reading data
- Metadata
- Saving data
- References

Basic analyses

- Select series to use
- Resampling
- Data transforms
- Background calculation
- Peak component
- Threshold setting

Advanced analyses

- Analysis of peak magnitudes
- Analysis of frequency distribution

References

Bouman, C. A. 1998. CLUSTER: An unsupervised algorithm for modeling Gaussian mixtures. Pages http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~bouman in, West Lafayette, IN.

Clark, J. S., and P. D. Royall. 1996. Local and regional sediment charcoal evidence for fire regimes in presettlement north-eastern North America. Journal of Ecology 84:365-383.

Cleveland, W. S. 1979. Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots. Journal of the American Statistics Association 74:829-836.

Detre, K., and C. White. 1970. Note: The comparison of two Poisson-distributed observations. Biometrics 26:851-854.

Gavin, D. G., L. B. Brubaker, and K. P. Lertzman. 2003. An 1800-year record of the spatial and temporal distribution of fire from the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:573-586.

Gavin, D. G., Hu, F. S., Lertzman, K. P., and Corbett, P. 2006. Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late Holocene. Ecology in press.

Higuera, P.E. 2006. Late Glacial and Holocene Fire History in the Southcentral Brooks Range, Alaska: Direct and Indirect Impacts of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes. PhD Dissertation, University of Washington.

Long, C. J., C. Whitlock, P. J. Bartlein, and S. H. Millspaugh. 1998. A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:774-787.

Shiue, W.-K., and L. J. Bain. 1982. Experiment size and power comparisons for two-sample Poisson tests. Journal of Applied Statistics 31:130-134.

Whitlock, C., and C. P. S. Larsen. 2002. Charcoal as a fire proxy. Pages 74-97 in J. P. Smol, H. J. B. Birks, and W. M. Last, editors. Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, vol. 3: Terrestrial, Algal, and Siliceous Indicators. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Whitlock, C., and R. S. Anderson. 2003. Fire History Reconstructions Based on Sediment Records from Lakes and Wetlands. Pages 3-31 in T. T. Veblen, W. L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam, editors. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Springer.

updated 21 June 2006