Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

by Thomas T. Veblen

Book Overview

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. It 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387954554
• ISBN13: 9780387954554
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"