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After the fires : the ecology of change in Yellowstone National Park /
In 1988 Yellowstone National Park suffered a serious outbreak of fires, a phenomenon that allowed scientists to study changes in the ecology of the area as it adapted to & recovered from the impact of catastrophe. This volume details research findings during the ensuing 16 years.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fires of 1988 : a chronology and invitation to research / Linda L. Wallace, Francis J. Singer, and Paul Schullery
- Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau Provinces, Yellowstone National Park / Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy Whitlock, and Patrick J. Bartlein
- Yellowstone fires and the physical landscape / Grant A. Meyer
- Establishment, growth, and survival of lodgepole pine in the first decade / Jay E. Anderson [and others]
- Fire effects, elk, and ecosystem resilience in Yellowstone's sagebrush grasslands / Benjamin F. Tracy
- Elk biology and ecology before and after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 / Francis J. Singer, Michael B. Coughenour, and Jack E. Norland
- Effects of wildfire on growth of cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake / Robert E. Gresswell
- Stream ecosystem responses to fire : the first ten years / G. Wayne Minshall, Todd V. Royer, and Christopher T. Robinson
- Food web dynamics in Yellowstone streams : shifts in the trophic basis of a stream food web after wildfire disturbance / Timothy B. Mihuc
- Role of fire in determining annual water yield in mountain watersheds / Phillip E. Farnes, Ward W. McCaughey, and Katherine J. Hansen
- Early postfire forest succession in the heterogeneous Teton landscape / Kathleen M. Doyle
- Snags and coarse woody debris : an important legacy of forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem / Daniel B. Tinker and Dennis H. Knight
- Fire patterns and ungulate survival in Northern Yellowstone Park : the results of two independent models / Linda L. Wallace [and others]
- Ten years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires : is restoration needed? / William H. Romme and Monica G. Turner
- Epilogue : after the fires : what have we learned? / Linda L. Wallace and Norman L. Christensen.