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

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. Fire History Reconstructions Based On Sediment Records Form Lakes And Wetlands / Cathy Whitlock And R. Scott Anderson -- The Simulation Of Landscape Fire, Climate, And Ecosystem Dynamics / Robert E. Keane And Mark A. Finney -- Simulation Of Effects Of Climatic Change On Fire Regimes / Carol Miller -- Fire Regimes And Climatic Change In Canadian Forests / Mike Flannigan, Brian Stocks, And Mike Weber -- Fires And Climate In Forested Landscapes Of The U.s. Rocky Mountains / William L. Baker -- Tree-ring Reconstructions Of Fire And Climate History In The Sierra Nevada And Southwestern United States / Thomas W. Swetnam And Christopher H. Baisan -- Influence Of Climate And Land Use On Historical Surface Fires In Pine-oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico / Emily K. Heyerdahl And Ernesto Alvarado -- Impact Of Past, Present, And Future Fire Regimes On North American Mediterranean Shrublands / Jon E. Keeley And C.j. Fotheringham -- Fire History And Vegetation Changes In Northern Patagonia, Argentina / Thomas T. Veblen [and Others] -- Influences Of Climate On Fire In Northern Patagonia, Argentina / Thomas Kitzberger And Thomas T. Veblen -- Fire Regimes And Forest Dynamics In The Lake Region Of South-central Chile -- Fire History In Central Chile: Tree-ring Evidence And Modern Records / Antonio Lara, [et Al.] -- Holocene Fire Frequency And Climate Change At Rio Rubens Bog, Southern Patagonia / Ulli M. Huber And Vera Markgraf -- Regeneration Potential Of Chilean Matorral After Fire: An Updated View / Gloria Montenegro -- Management Implications Of Fire And Climate Changes In The Western Americas / Penelope Morgan, Guillermo E. Defossé, And Norberto F. Rodríguez. Thomas T. Veblen ... [et Al.], (eds.) Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Fire History Reconstructions Based on Sediment Records from Lakes and Wetlands....Pages 3-31 The Simulation of Landscape Fire, Climate, and Ecosystem Dynamics....Pages 32-68 Simulation of Effects of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes....Pages 69-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests....Pages 97-119 Fires and Climate in Forested Landscapes of the U.S. Rocky Mountains....Pages 120-157 Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Fire and Climate History in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States....Pages 158-195 Influence of Climate and Land Use on Historical Surface Fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico....Pages 196-217 Impact of Past, Present, and Future Fire Regimes on North American Mediterranean Shrublands....Pages 218-262 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Fire History and Vegetation Changes in Northern Patagonia, Argentina....Pages 265-295 Influences of Climate on Fire in Northern Patagonia, Argentina....Pages 296-321 Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics in the Lake Region of South-Central Chile....Pages 322-342 Fire History in Central Chile: Tree-Ring Evidence and Modern Records....Pages 343-356 Holocene Fire Frequency and Climate Change at Rio Rubens Bog, Southern Patagonia....Pages 357-380 Regeneration Potential of Chilean Matorral After Fire: An Updated View....Pages 381-409 Front Matter....Pages 411-411 Management Implications of Fire and Climate Changes in the Western Americas....Pages 413-440