Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Methods and Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fire History Reconstructions Based on Sediment Records from Lakes and Wetlands

      • Cathy Whitlock, R. Scott Anderson

      Pages 3-31

   3. The Simulation of Landscape Fire, Climate, and Ecosystem Dynamics

      • Robert E. Keane, Mark A. Finney

      Pages 32-68

   4. Simulation of Effects of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes

      • Carol Miller

      Pages 69-94

3. North America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests

      • Mike Flannigan, Brian Stocks, Mike Weber

      Pages 97-119

   3. Fires and Climate in Forested Landscapes of the U.S. Rocky Mountains

      • William L. Baker

      Pages 120-157

   4. Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Fire and Climate History in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States

      • Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan

      Pages 158-195

   5. Influence of Climate and Land Use on Historical Surface Fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico

      • Emily K. Heyerdahl, Ernesto Alvarado

      Pages 196-217

   6. Impact of Past, Present, and Future Fire Regimes on North American Mediterranean Shrublands

      • Jon E. Keeley, C. J. Fotheringham

      Pages 218-262

4. South America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Fire History and Vegetation Changes in Northern Patagonia, Argentina

      • Thomas T. Veblen, Thomas Kitzberger, Estela Raffaele, Diane C. Lorenz

      Pages 265-295

   3. Influences of Climate on Fire in Northern Patagonia, Argentina

      • Thomas Kitzberger, Thomas T. Veblen

      Pages 296-321

   4. Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics in the Lake Region of South-Central Chile

      • Antonio Lara, Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke, Juan Carlos Aravena, Marco Cortés, Shawn Fraver, Fernando Silla

      Pages 322-342

   5. Fire History in Central Chile: Tree-Ring Evidence and Modern Records

      • Juan Carlos Aravena, Carlos LeQuesne, Héctor Jiménez, Antonio Lara, Juan J. Armesto

      Pages 343-356

   6. Holocene Fire Frequency and Climate Change at Rio Rubens Bog, Southern Patagonia

      • Ulli M. Huber, Vera Markgraf

      Pages 357-380

   7. Regeneration Potential of Chilean Matorral After Fire: An Updated View

      • Gloria Montenegro, Miguel Gómez, Francisca Díaz, Rosanna Ginocchio

      Pages 381-409

5. Practical Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 411-411

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   2. Management Implications of Fire and Climate Changes in the Western Americas

      • Penelope Morgan, Guillermo E. Defossé, Norberto F. Rodríguez

      Pages 413-440

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.

• Climatology
• Paleoclimatology
• Rain
• Scale
• Seen
• biogeography
• climate change
• ecology
• ecosystem
• ecosystem dynamics
• ecosystem ecology
• forest
• forest management
• vegetation
• wetland
• Forestry Management

Praise for Veblen, T.T.; Baker, W.L.; Montenegro, G.; Swetnam, T.W's Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas.

ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers

"The volume will provide an array of readers with an important factual and theoretical reference for better understanding the varied cultural and environmental aspects of fire. We can also expect that it will inspire further fire-climate research, specially in less-studied portions of the Western Hemisphere."

• Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  Thomas T. Veblen

• Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

  William L. Baker

• Departmento de Ciencias Vegetales Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  Gloria Montenegro

• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Thomas W. Swetnam

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