Fire as an ecosystem process: Chapter 3

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Edited by: Harold A. Mooney and Erika S. Zavaleta

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Abstract

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California’s ecological patterns and the history of the state’s various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state’s ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California’s environment and curious naturalists.

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Fire as an ecosystem process: Chapter 3
ISBN 9780520278806
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher University of California Press
Contributing office(s) Western Ecological Research Center
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Monograph
Larger Work Title Ecosystems of California
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