Fire, Climate Change, And Carbon Cycling In The Boreal Forest (Ecological Studies)

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In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and, consequently, the forest cover and carbon storage of boreal regions will undergo dramatic alterations. This volume discusses the direct and indirect mechanisms by which fire and climate interact to influence carbon cycling in North American boreal forests. The first section summarizes the information needed to understand and manage fire's effects on the ecology of boreal forests and its influence on global climate change issues. Following chapters discuss in detail the role of fire in the ecology of boreal forests. Subsequent sections present data sets on fire and the distribution of carbon, discuss the use of satellite imagery in monitoring these regions and discuss approaches to modeling the relevant processes. The book offers the following new results: improved estimates of carbon released during fires at a variety of scales, from individual sites to the entire North American boreal forest region; direct evidence of enhanced soil respiration after fire in Alaskan boreal forests; studies of the influence of fire on long-term forest-succession patterns; modeling results of the effects of climate warming on the fire regime; examples of the use of satellite imagery to monitor surface characteristics important in carbon cycling; modeling results of how climate change will interact with the fire regime to influence carbon storage.

Field Guide to the Peat Mosses of Boreal North America

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Field Guide to the Peat Mosses of Boreal North America
Cyrus B. McQueen
Manufacturer: UPNE
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ASIN: 087451522X

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A practical guide to field identification of common North American peat mosses. For amateurs and professionals alike, the book contains excellent color photos of 30 major species and field keys to nearly all species in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Definitely User friendly.......2001-10-24

I just spent all day with this book, using it in the field and in the lab with my plant ecology students (undergraduates). I know that Sphagnum identification is difficult but the students found the random access key to 27 species very easy to use . It is much easier to use the key in the lab with a dissecting microscope and some dissecting tools than in the field. However the photographs are useful and the species descriptions are very complete. The book starts off with excellent chapters on the natural history, anatomy and ecology of Sphagnum.

Definitely User friendly.......2001-10-24

Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

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Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195154312

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The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and describes their unique features in the context of circumpolar and global patterns. It tells how fire and climate contributed to the biome's current dynamics. As climate warms and permafrost (permanently frozen ground) thaws, the boreal forest may be on the cusp of a major change in state. The editors have gathered a remarkable set of contributors to discuss this swift environmental and biotic transformation. Their chapters cover the properties of the forest, the changes it is undergoing, and the challenges these alterations present to boreal forest managers. In the first section, the reader can absorb the geographic and historical context for understanding the boreal forest. The book then delves into the dynamics of plant and animal communities inhabiting this forest, and the biogeochemical processes that link these organisms. In the last section the authors explore landscape phenomena that operate at larger temporal and spatial scales and integrates the processes described in earlier sections. Much of the research on which this book is based results from the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Here is a synthesis of the substantial literature on Alaska's boreal forest that should be accessible to professional ecologists, students, and the interested public.

Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment

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Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment
John Gunn
Manufacturer: Lewis Publishers
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ASIN: 1566706467

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Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment brings together the work of a renowned international group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic coldwater species of northern glaciated lakes, using it as an indicator of environmental change and as a model to measure the effectiveness of management actions. This book demonstrates how boreal waters have served as a crucible for decades of environmental research into the impacts of nutrient additions, trace contaminants, acid rain, climate change, sport fishing, invasive species, and watershed disturbances. The text builds on this substantial research legacy and explores our ability to manage human interactions with ecosystems across the vast Boreal Shield ecozone of North America, and with other important ecosystems worldwide. It also provides models and new methods of assessing the risk to and the durability of ecosystems in relation to local, regional, and global human activities. Maps and descriptions of several important long-term monitoring sites and an atlas describing more than 3,000 lake trout lakes in the region are special components of the book.

Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness

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Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness
Juri Peepre , Margaret Atwood , and John Ralston Saul
Manufacturer: Harbour Publishing
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A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

ASIN: 1550173650

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Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness is a gorgeous coffee-table book about a wilderness area so vast and so crucial to planetary survival it defies comprehension. Previously unknown to the outside world, the Yukon's Three Rivers watershed is emerging as an environmental issue of global importance--a key piece of the boreal region.
The boreal forest is like a green banner draped around the northern hemisphere. It is the world's largest expanse of intact forest, covering nearly 11 percent of our planet's surface. Every breath we take is in part a gift from this immense, earth-circling ecosystem.
Now the renewed Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal, the Alaska Pipeline and escalating energy and mineral exploration in the north all threaten this last world-scale refuge of natural values--and conservationists around the world are mobilizing to defend it. Three Rivers focuses on one of the most strategic undisturbed regions left in the world, an oceanic wilderness that is under threat from gas and mining development.
Packed with awe-inspiring photography, art and writings by such notables as Courtney Milne, Margaret Atwood and John Ralston Saul, this sumptuous volume offers an unforgettable tour of a natural wonderland so rich in grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, peregrine falcons and wildflowers most will have difficulty believing such a place still exists. Three Rivers is a prize to be cherished by anyone who appreciates great photography, fine writing and untrammelled nature, and a must-have for anyone who takes an interest in the fate of our beleaguered but still awe-inspiring planet.

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Explores a region of vast wilderness previously unknown to the outside world.......2006-05-20

THREE RIVERS: THE YUKON'S GREAT BOREAL WILDERNESS explores a region of vast wilderness previously unknown to the outside world, but is a major environmental hotspot of modern times as it represents one of the last, key pieces of the boreal region. With the Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal looming to threaten it, the Three Rivers region is in the news and deserving of this coffee-table survey, which packs in color photos and art and writing by major authors to remind of the region's importance.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
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Accessing a great wilderness area..... GerryM.......2006-02-25

After visiting the yukon(from Australia)and travelling by road I was interested in learning about more inaccessable areas of the Yukon. The book is first and foremost a photographic journey in the great boreal wilderness area by way of the Snake, Bonnet Plume and Wind rivers. The photographs are spectacular but are accompanied by well written text and great descriptive writing by a number of different writers who made the trip. It also is informative where relevent of the history of the area and has just the right balance. The book is a focus on the need to conserve the area, and it successfully does this by "taking you there" and helping you see and feel it for yourself. It does not focus on an anti development theme as such but achieves the environmental focus in a positive and stunning manner.The book is a delight to look at and read and is well set out and captioned. The gwich'in inhabitants of the area and their lives are well integrated into the story and adds to make this a book worth having and revisiting. I can appreciate the care that went into preparing this book so that it is immediately visually stunning but then has wonderful text to read and enjoy and have some appeal to everyone.

excellent.......2006-01-13

A magnificent combination of pictures and text/stories on the Yukon. Great to see such a good book about a part of the world one rarely reads or hears about.

Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Studies from the North American Boreal Forest (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)

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Learned and Concise

Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Studies from the North American Boreal Forest (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)
Edward A. Johnson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521349435

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This book assembles the relevant studies of fire intensity, rate of spread, fuel consumption, fire frequency, and fire weather in the North American boreal forest. The central thesis is that the North American boreal forest has at least four wildfire characteristics that are important in understanding the dynamics of its plant populations: the large size of the burns with respect to dispersal distances; the short recurrence time of fire with respect to tree lifespans; the high mortality of plants due to the predominance of crown fires; and a good germination surface due to the large area of the forest floor that is covered by ash.

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Learned and Concise.......2007-05-27

This slender volume provides a concise explanation of the topics most important to understanding the role of fire in shaping the boreal forest: climate, combustion, the forest floor and other fuels, landscape patterns, and forest regeneration. While fairly technical, the numerous diagrams and graphs allow the reader to understand the mechanics of fire behavior and to interrelate and apply the concepts.

Ecosystem Dynamics of the Boreal Forest: The Kluane Project

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Ecosystem Dynamics of the Boreal Forest: The Kluane Project

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195133935

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The boreal forest is one of the world's great ecosystems, stretching across North America and Eurasia in an unbroken band and containing about 25% of the world's closed canopy forests. The Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project was a 10-year study by nine of Canada's leading ecologists to unravel the impact of the snowshoe hare cycle on the plants and the other vertebrate species in the boreal forest. In much of the boreal forest, the snowshoe hare acts as a keystone herbivore, fluctuating in 9-10 year cycles, and dragging along secondary cycles in predators such as lynx and great-horned owls. By manipulating the ecosystem on a large scale from the bottom via fertilizer additions and from the top by predator exclosures, they have traced the plant-herbivore relationships and the predator-prey relationships in this ecosystem to try to answer the question of what drives small mammal population cycles. This study is unique in being large scale and experimental on a relatively simple ecosystem, with the overall goal of defining what determines community structure in the boreal forest. Ecosystem Dynamics of the Boreal Forest: The Kluane Project summarizes these findings, weaving new discoveries of the role of herbivores-turned-predators, compensatory plant growth, and predators-eating-predators with an ecological story rich in details and clear in its findings of a community where predation plays a key role in determining the fate of individuals and populations. The study of the Kluane boreal forest raises key questions about the scale of conservation required for boreal forest communities and the many mammals and birds that live there.

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Life in the Boreal Forest
Wayne Lynch
Manufacturer: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
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ASIN: 155041576X
Release Date: 2006-05-20

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Spreading across the top of North America from Alaska to Newfoundland, and sweeping across the breadth of Russia to the fjords of western Scandinavia is the great northern forest.

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In Canada alone, the boreal forest (also called the taiga) covers more that 1.5 million square miles, fully one-third of the country and 20 percent of the entire North American continent. Terminating to the north with the treeless tundra, this region is inhabited and utilized by indigenous people and is home to unique populations of plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet. J. David Henry challenges the perception of the boreal forest as an economic wasteland by explaining how economically and ecologically valuable it is.

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Entertaining and Enlightning!.......2004-05-18

This book provided a bounty of knowledge and interesting facts. A great book to keep around for reference.

Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta: A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

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A better textbook than a field guide
A superbly presented field guide and primer

Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta: A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology
Anthony P. Russell
Manufacturer: Univ of Calgary Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1552380386

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A better textbook than a field guide.......2001-09-11

Not all regional field guides are the same: some aim to be thorough references of their subject matter, others aim to be useable in the field. This one is as much a university-level textbook on Alberta herpetofauna, with general information as well as discussions of local habitat that take up more room than the species descriptions themselves.

On the one hand, this makes for a useful reference to its subject, particularly for biology students (its bibliography, for example, is enormous); on the other, its scanty species descriptions reduce its usefulness for those who want a field guide, or who want to know more specifically about the animals in question.

In at least one instance this limited space leads to an oversimplication that I believe to be incorrect: the book states that garter and hognose snakes are rear-fanged and mildly venomous. While they have enlarged rear teeth and their saliva does seem to cause reactions in some people, I do not believe that is the same as venom produced by venom glands and delivered by hollow fangs, as is the case with true rear-fanged snakes (such as Hypsiglena, Trimorphodon, Boiga). In any event, the characterization overlooks such subtleties, which detracts from our understanding of these animals.

A superbly presented field guide and primer.......2001-02-04

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Anthony Russell and Aaron Bauer's The Amphibians And Reptiles Of Alberta is enhanced with color photographs by Wayne Lynch and black/white illustrations by Irene McKinnon. This superbly presented field guide and primer of Boreal Herpetology showcases the amphibians and reptiles that are part of the ecological economy of Alberta, Canada. The Amphibians And Reptiles Of Alberta is an essential, core, scholarly addition to professional and academic Canadian amphibian and herpetofauna wildlife reference collections.

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