After the fires
Subtitle: the ecology of change in Yellowstone National Park
By: edited by Linda L. Wallace.
Contributors: Wallace, Linda L., 1951-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780300100488
Subjects: Forest fires -- Yellowstone National Park; Forest fires -- Environmental aspects -- Yellowstone National Park; Fire ecology -- Yellowstone National Park; Yellowstone National Park
Description: "The ravaging fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 have been the subject of intense study, for Yellowstone, the world's first national park, is often considered a paradigm for park and wildlands management issues in other parts of the world. This book provides the first comprehensive scientific summary of the actual response of the Yellowstone ecosystem to the fires." "Written by leading experts in wildlife biology, ecosystem science, landscape ecology, and forest science, the book is the result of careful analysis of data, rather than of emotional responses to blackened vistas. It shows clearly that ecological components of the system are interactive - that, for example, changes in what kinds of materials lie on the bottom of streambeds affect how debris flows downstream. The book also presents surprises: some things did not change in response to the fires. Areas that were forested before the fires grew back as forests following the fires; elk and bison population survival has been more closely tied to the severity of winter weather than to the fire severity. The largest effects of the fires were felt at the smallest scales, and the long-term devastation predicted as the park burned did not come to pass. The resilience of this naturally functioning ecosystem to these huge fires has important lessons for us and for our more heavily managed landscapes."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fires of 1988 : a chronology and invitation to research -- Linda L. Wallace, Francis J. Singer, and Paul Schullery; title: 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; title: Yellowstone fires and the physical landscape -- Grant A. Meyer; title: Establishment, growth, and survival of lodgepole pine in the first decade -- Jay E. Anderson ... [et al.]; title: Fire effects, elk, and ecosystem resilience in Yellowstone's sagebrush grasslands -- Benjamin F. Tracy; title: Elk biology and ecology before and after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 -- Francis J. Singer, Michael B. Coughenour, and Jack E. Norland; title: Effects of wildfire on growth of cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake -- Robert E. Gresswell; title: Stream ecosystem responses to fire : the first ten years -- G. Wayne Minshall, Todd V. Royer, and Christopher T. Robinson; title: Food web dynamics in Yellowstone streams : shifts in the trophic basis of a stream food web after wildfire disturbance -- Timothy B. Mihuc; title: Role of fire in determining annual water yield in mountain watersheds -- Phillip E. Farnes, Ward W. McCaughey, and Katherine J. Hansen; title: Early postfire forest succession in the heterogeneous Teton landscape -- Kathleen M. Doyle; title: Snags and coarse woody debris : an important legacy of forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -- Daniel B. Tinker and Dennis H. Knight; title: Fire patterns and ungulate survival in Northern Yellowstone Park : the results of two independent models -- Linda L. Wallace ... [et al.]; title: Ten years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires : is restoration needed? -- William H. Romme and Monica G. Turner; title: Epilogue : after the fires : what have we learned?-- Linda L. Wallace and Norman L. Christensen.