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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Bioclimatology
ISBN : UCR:31210009542349
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Dynamics
ISBN : OCLC:1429376763
Author : C. Eugene Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Chaparral
ISBN : MINN:31951D029772495
Author : Thomas John Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000283619
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015012631928
Author : Bernard Dell,A.J.M. Hopkins,B.B. Lamont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400948228
This volume contains the texts of invited papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Mediterranean Ecosystems (MEDECOS) held in Perth, Western Australia during August 1984. It thus follows three previous meetings, Chile (1971), California (1977) and South Africa (1980). There has been no formal international body to organize these meetings, merely a continuity of purpose provided by the common interests of the scientists concerned in the English-speaking world. Following previous themes on structure, fire and role of nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems, MEDECOS was structured around the theme 'Resilience in Mediterranean Ecosystems'. The invited speakers were requested to deal with particu lar aspects of this subject, and offered papers were encouraged to do so as well. This provided a broad framework for discussions which at the same time highlighted many of the major conservation issues arising from extreme natural events and human-induced disturbances in the mediterranean regions. The proceed ings were issued on the last day of the conference and provided two-page accounts of each of the contributed papers and posters (Dell, B. (ed. ) 1984 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mediterranean Ecosystems. Botany Dept. , University of Western Australia). This volume was reserved for the review papers whose aim was to explore general principles and unifying concepts at all levels in the study of resilience. Perth, December 1985. VII List of contributors B. Dell 1. E.
Author : Jose Moreno,Walter C. Oechel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461241867
Regions with Mediterranean-type climates include parts of California, South America, Australia, and of course, Europe. The effect of global climate change on these heavily populated areas will have major social and political ramifications. This volume addresses issues in these areas, from processes at the leaf level to the individual, ecosystem, and landscape levels. This book will serve to raise awareness on the significance of these types of ecosystems, and on their sensitivity to the threat that global change represents.
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466882911
From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne, one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota and its human inhabitants, while at the same time he relates the planetary saga of fire as it has been played out on this special island continent. Much as the Aborigines exploited fire to remake their environment into something more usable, so Stephen Pyne exploits fire to transform the landscape of history into something more accessible, to use its transmuting power to extract new meaning out of familiar events. Pyne traces the impact of fire, from its initial influence on the evolving vegetation of the new continent, through its use by the Aborigines and the subsequent European settlers, to the holocaust of February 1983 known as Ash Wednesday, and he shows us that the dynamic nature of fire has made it a most powerful environmental determinant in Australia, shaping both its social and natural histories. In his critically acclaimed study of Antarctica, The Ice, Pyne explored the myriad dimensions of the cold continent; now Burning Bush offers us an equally absorbing examination of a continent informed by fire.
Author : Thomas T. Veblen,William L. Baker,Gloria Montenegro,Thomas W. Swetnam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387217109
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.
Author : Cyrus McKell
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323143615
The Biology and Utilization of Shrubs brings together the wide range of information about shrubs from many disciplines and world locations. The book is organized into seven parts. Part I describes the major shrublands found on each of the vegetated continents. It provides an overview of the dominant shrubland types as well as the associated features of soil and climate that influence the geographic distribution of major shrub species. Part II discusses environmental influences and plant responses. Part III considers the range of genetic diversity for important traits and how these may vary in different habitats. Part IV discusses the effects of stress on physiological processes of shrubs, and the kinds of strategies shrubs employ to meet physiological stress. Part V offers evidence to support the claim that the many virtues of shrubs provide a basis for sustaining shrub use for livestock fodder, wildlife habitat, reclamation and erosion control, fuel, and naturalized landscaping. Part VI outlines methods for collecting and processing seeds from natural stands or from superior genotypes planted in seed production orchards. Part VII describes cultural adaptation to shrub use in a livestock-dominated primitive culture, followed by a detailed economic analysis of establishing shrub plantations to improve livestock production.
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786636256
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of "the American century." With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02965984R
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : UCSD:31822025917386
Author : Jose M. Moreno,Walter C. Oechel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461383956
Fire has been recognized as a vital agent influencing the diversity and vigor of landscapes. It is particularly important in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as those of California. This book is of interest to ecologists, policy makers, and land managers.
Author : James R. Griffin,Philip M. McDonald,Pamela C. Muick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Oak
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977254C