Arid Lands Newsletter

November-December 2003,
Issue No. 54

ISSN:
1092-5481

Fire ecology I

Katherine Waser, Editor
Office of Arid Lands Studies
The University of Arizona

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Editor's note:
Fire ecology past and present

Women who hunt with fire: Aboriginal resource use and fire regimes in Australia's Western Desert
by Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, and Christopher H. Parker

Fire management in the Kruger National Park
by Navashni Govender

Fire in the European Mediterranean
by Oliver Rackham

Fire recurrence thresholds and desertification in Mediterranean semiarid shrublands: The role of soil nutrient capital depletion
by María del Carmen Cobo and José Antonio Carreira

Anthropogenic fires in India: A tale of two forests
by Sonali Saha and Ankila Hiremath

Briefly noted:
Selected resources of interest

CALL FOR PAPERS

In ALN No. 55, May/June 2004, we will continue to consider the theme of Fire ecology. In this current issue, the focus is on knowledge about historical and current human use and management of fire, fire regimes, and fire effects; the focus in ALN No. 55 will be on future trends and developments in fire research and fire management. Topics to be considered for ALN No. 55 include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

ALN No. 55 (May/June 2004)
- The degree of human influence on the environment is increasingly recognized in the form of such phenomena as global warming, the growing impact of urban areas on their surrounding environments, and the effects of aerosol emissions from human-induced fires (including slash-and-burn agriculture or cooking fires in cities as well as the industrial "fires" of factories and vehicles). To what extent might such factors become drivers in changing fire regimes (particularly in ecosystems that are not historically fire-driven), and if so, what might the results be of such changes?
- What steps might we need to take to address any adverse effects resulting from such changes?
- What are other important research priorities for the future, and what current projects are undertaking such research?

Proposals for papers, comments, suggestions for possible authors, suggestions for resources (web, paper, CD-ROM etc.) to be included, etc. in either of these issues, are welcome. Please send your suggestions to Katherine Waser, Editor, Arid Lands Newsletter.