James K Agee

Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest Forests (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The structure of mvirgin forests in the western United States reflects a past disturbance history that includes forest fire. James K. Agee, an expert in the emergfield of fire ecology, analyzes the ecological role of fire in the creation and maintenance of natural western forests, focusing primarily on forest stand developmpatterns. His discussion of the natural fire environmand the environmental effects of fire is applicable to a wide range of temperate forests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610913782
• Artikelnr.: 39175194

Autorenporträt

James K. Agee is professor of forest ecology in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, Seattle. He recently completed a five-year term as chair of the Division of Ecosystem Science and Conservation, and he continues to teach and conduct research on forest and fire ecology. Before coming to the University of Washington, he was a forest ecologist and research biologist for the National Park Service in Seattle and San Francisco. Agee received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He is the author of more than 100 technical reports and professional papers in forest and fire ecology, and he has extensive experience with fire research and management in the Pacific Coast states. He has been a trustee for the Washington chapter of The Nature Conservancy, was chair to the Washington Natural Heritage Council, and associate editor of Northwest Science.