Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

by Veblen, Thomas T.; Baker, William L.; Montenegro, Gloria; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Baker, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780387954554
• ISBN10: 0387954554
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

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

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xv
Section 1. Methods and Models
Fire History Reconstructions Based on Sediment Records from Lakes and Wetlands	3	(29)
Cathy Whitlock
R. Scott Anderson
The Simulation of Landscape Fire, Climate, and Ecosystem Dynamics	32	(37)
Robert E. Keane
Mark A. Finney
Simulation of Effects of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes	69	(28)
Carol Miller
Section 2. North America
Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests	97	(23)
Mike Flannigan
Brian Stocks
Mike Weber
Fires and Climate in Forested Landscapes of the U.S. Rocky Mountains	120	(38)
William L. Baker
Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Fire and Climate History in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States	158	(38)
Thomas W. Swetnam
Christopher H. Baisan
Influence of Climate and Land Use on Historical Surface Fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico	196	(22)
Emily K. Heyerdahl
Ernesto Alvarado
Impact of Past, Present, and Future Fire Regimes on North American Mediterranean Shrublands	218	(47)
Jon E. Keeley
C.J. Fotheringham
Section 3. South America
Fire History and Vegetation Changes in Northern Patagonia, Argentina	265	(31)
Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas Kitzberger
Estela Raffaele
Diane C. Lorenz
Influences of Climate on Fire in Northern Patagonia, Argentina	296	(26)
Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas T. Veblen
Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics in the Lake Region of South-Central Chile	322	(21)
Antonio Lara
Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke
Juan Carlos Aravena
Marco Cortes
Shawn Fraver
Fernando Silla
Fire History in Central Chile: Tree-Ring Evidence and Modern Records	343	(14)
Juan Carlos Aravena
Carlos LeQuesne
Hector Jimenez
Antonio Lara
Juan J. Armesto
Holocene Fire Frequency and Climate Change at Rio Rubens Bog, Southern Patagonia	357	(24)
Ulli M. Huber
Vera Markgraf
Regeneration Potential of Chilean Matorral After Fire: An Updated View	381	(32)
Gloria Montenegro
Miguel Gomez
Francisca Diaz
Rosanna Ginocchio
Section 4. Practical Implications
Management Implications of Fire and Climate Changes in the Western Americas	413	(28)
Penelope Morgan
Guillermo E. Defosse
Norberto F. Rodriguez
Index	441