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  title info:
    title: Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas
  name:
    name part: Veblen, Thomas T.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Baker, William L.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Montenegro, Gloria.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Swetnam, Thomas W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 446 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Methods and Models -- Fire History Reconstructions Based on Sediment Records from Lakes and Wetlands -- The Simulation of Landscape Fire, Climate, and Ecosystem Dynamics -- Simulation of Effects of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes -- North America -- Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests -- Fires and Climate in Forested Landscapes of the U.S. Rocky Mountains -- Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Fire and Climate History in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States -- Influence of Climate and Land Use on Historical Surface Fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico -- Impact of Past, Present, and Future Fire Regimes on North American Mediterranean Shrublands -- South America -- Fire History and Vegetation Changes in Northern Patagonia, Argentina -- Influences of Climate on Fire in Northern Patagonia, Argentina -- Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics in the Lake Region of South-Central Chile -- Fire History in Central Chile: Tree-Ring Evidence and Modern Records -- Holocene Fire Frequency and Climate Change at Rio Rubens Bog, Southern Patagonia -- Regeneration Potential of Chilean Matorral After Fire: An Updated View -- Practical Implications -- Management Implications of Fire and Climate Changes in the Western Americas.
  note: edited by Thomas T. Veblen, William L. Baker, Gloria Montenegro, Thomas W. Swetnam.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry management
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Terrestial Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Forestry Management
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 160
  identifier: 9780387217109
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97443
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204145114.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-21710-9