Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

by Thomas T. Veblen

Book Overview

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...

• 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"