Clitocybe squamodisca

Fung

Clitocybe albirhiza

Fung

Book Reviews

Review of Lothal and the Indus Civilization, by S. R. Rao; The Settlement of Polynesia: A Computer Simulation, by Michael Levinson, R. Gerald Ward, and John W. Webb; The Pacific Islanders, by William Howells; Early Hawaiians: An Initial Study of Skeletal Remains from Mokapu, Oahu, by Charles E. Snow; The Art of Easter Island, by Thor Heyerdahl; Archaeological Excavations at Sigatoka Dune Site, Fiji, by Lawrence Birks; Aboriginal Prehistory in England, by Isabel McBryde; The Pivot of the Four Quarters, by Paul Wheatley; Myths and Legends of the Polynesians, by Johannes G. Andersen; In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology, by Brian M. Fagan; Peasant Society in Konku: A Study of Right and Left Subcastes in South India, by Brenda E. F. Beck; Kokogaku Ronso, vol. 1, by Mitsuo Kagawa, ed.; Culture and Population: A Collection of Current Studies, by Steven Polgar, ed.; China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide, by Arlene Posner and Arne J. de Keijzer, eds.; Rangiroa, by Paul Ottino; Chinese Statelets and the Northern Barbarians in the Period 1400-300 B.C., by Jaroslav Prusek; Early Buddhist Japan, by J. Edward Kidder; Hindu Gods of Peninsular Siam, by Stanley J. O'Connor, Jr.; Catalogue of Fossil Hominids, Part III: Americas, Asia, Australia, by Kenneth P. Oakley, Bernard G. Campbell, and Theya I. Molleson; Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago, by Garrett and Bronwen Solyom

Book Reviews

Review of From Ming to Ch'ing--Conquest, Region and Continuity in Seventeenth-century China, by Jonathon D Spence and John E Wills, Jr., eds.; The Diffusion of Material Culture, by H H E Loofs-Wissowa, ed.; Khmer Ceramics 9th-14th Century, by Dina Stock, ed.; Aboriginal Sites, Rights and Resource Development, by R M Berndt, ed.; Language Atlas of the Pacific Area, by Stephen A Wurm and Shiro Hattori, eds.; An Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Palau Archipelago, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia, by George J Gumerman, David Snyder, and W Bruce Masse; Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier, by Patrick Vinton Kirch and D E Yen

Interactions Among Fire, Insects and Pathogens in Coniferous Forests of the Interior Western United States and Canada

1 Natural and recurring disturbances caused by fire, native forest insects and pathogens have interacted for millennia to create and maintain forests dominated by seral or pioneering species of conifers in the interior regions of the western United States and Canada. 2 Changes in fire suppression and other factors in the last century have altered the species composition and increased the density of trees in many western forests, leading to concomitant changes in how these three disturbance agents interact. 3 Two- and three-way interactions are reviewed that involve fire, insects and pathogens in these forests, including fire-induced pathogen infection and insect attack, the effects of tree mortality from insects and diseases on fuel accumulation, and efforts to model these interactions. 4 The emerging concern is highlighted regarding how the amount and distribution of bark beetle-caused tree mortality will be affected by large-scale restoration of these fire-adapted forest ecosystems via prescribed fire. 5 The effects of fire on soil insects and pathogens, and on biodiversity of ground-dwelling arthropods, are examined. 6 The effects of fire suppression on forest susceptibility to insects and pathogens, are discussed, as is the use of prescribed fire to control forest pests