Overview
Provides general readers with an interest in science the tools and ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West
Presents many constants of ecological science for a timely and long-lived contribution
Clarifies what we don't know about how climate change affects mountains in the Western U.S., and explains the limitations on our current and future knowledge
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from human-caused changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of ecological changes in other contexts around the world.
Reviews
“The book is an essential source of information for understanding how the western US mountains may respond to the current climate crisis, in all their infinite variety. It should therefore be on the shelf of any environmental manager in the West, but also any scientist working in mountain environments more broadly, and I strongly recommend it in this regard and congratulate the author on a comprehensive account.” (Nick Pepin, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 41 (2), May, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Donald McKenzie is a research ecologist at the University of Washington who focuses on wildfire, landscape ecology, and climate change. His studies explore spatial pattern and structure in low-severity fire regimes, the effects of wildfire on regional air quality, effects of climate change on disturbance regimes and mountain forest ecosystems in the American West, landscape mapping of wildland fuels at multiple scales, and carbon emissions from wildfire in North America. Previously he has worked on climatic variability and tree species' responses, dendrochronological methods, understory plant responses to overstory changes, and empirical models of forest growth.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mountains in the Greenhouse
Book Subtitle: Climate Change and the Mountains of the Western U.S.A.
Authors: Donald McKenzie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42432-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42431-2Published: 18 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42432-9Published: 17 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Environment, general, Terrestial Ecology