Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas (2003) (Ecological Studies #160)

Synopsis

Both fire and climatic variability have monumental impacts on the dynamics of temperate ecosystems. These impacts can sometimes be extreme or devastating as seen in recent El Nino/La Nina cycles and in uncontrolled fire occurrences. This volume brings together research conducted in western North and South America, areas of a great deal of collaborative work on the influence of people and climate change on fire regimes. In order to give perspective to patterns of change over time, it emphasizes the integration of paleoecological studies with studies of modern ecosystems. Data from a range of spatial scales, from individual plants to communities and ecosystems to landscape and regional levels, are included. Contributions come from fire ecology, paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, landscape and ecosystem ecology, ecological modeling, forest management, plant community ecology and plant morphology. The book gives a synthetic overview of methods, data and simulation models for evaluating fire regime processes in forests, shrublands and woodlands and assembles case studies of fire, climate and land use histories. The unique approach of this book gives researchers the benefits of a north-south comparison as well as the integration of paleoecological histories, current ecosystem dynamics and modeling of future changes.

Copyright:

2003

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780387217109

Related ISBNs:

9780387954554

Publisher:

Springer New York

Date of Addition:

02/07/21

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N/A

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Technology, Earth Sciences

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Edited by:

Thomas T. Veblen

Edited by:

William L. Baker

Edited by:

Gloria Montenegro

Edited by:

Thomas W. Swetnam