Effects Of Fire On Forests

Author : Edward A. Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080506746

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Forest Fires by Edward A. Johnson Pdf

Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.

Author : Edward A. Johnson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 012386660X

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Forest Fires by Edward A. Johnson Pdf

Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.

Author : Edward Arnold Johnson,Kiyoko Miyanishi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:879943053

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Forest Fires by Edward Arnold Johnson,Kiyoko Miyanishi Pdf

Author : David L. Peterson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437926668

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Effects of Timber Harvest Following Wildfire in Western North America by David L. Peterson Pdf

Timber harvest following wildfire leads to different outcomes depending on the biophysical setting of the forest, pattern of burn severity, operational aspects of tree removal, and other activities. Postfire logging adds to these effects by removing standing dead trees (snags) and disturbing the soil. The influence of postfire logging depends on the intensity of the fire, intensity of the logging operation, and mgmt. activities such as fuel treatments. Removal of snags reduces long-term fuel loads but generally results in increased amounts of fine fuels for the first few years after logging. Cavity-nesting birds, small mammals, and amphibians may be affected by harvest of standing dead and live trees, with negative effects on most species. Illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Animal ecology
ISBN : UIUC:30112046921562

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Wildland Fire in Ecosystems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonard F. DeBano,Daniel G. Neary,Peter F. Ffolliott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471163562

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Fire Effects on Ecosystems by Leonard F. DeBano,Daniel G. Neary,Peter F. Ffolliott Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the effects of fires--in forests and other environments--on soils, watersheds, vegetation, air and cultural resources.

Author : A Cerda
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1439843333

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Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration Strategies by A Cerda Pdf

This book has been published a decade after Fires Effects on Ecosystems by DeBano, Neary, and Folliott (1998), and builds on their foundation to update knowledge on natural post-fire processes and describe the use and effectiveness of various restoration strategies that may be applied when human intervention is warranted. The chapters in this book, written by leading scientists, have been compiled to provide relevant and accessible information to students, land managers, and policy-makers as well as other scientists.

Author : Stephen F. Arno,Stephen Allison-Bunnell
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266031

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Flames in Our Forest by Stephen F. Arno,Stephen Allison-Bunnell Pdf

Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with consequences including the decline of important fire-dependent tree and undergrowth species, increasing density and stagnation of forests, epidemics of insects and diseases, and the high potential for severe wildfires. Flames in Our Forest explains those problems and presents viable solutions to them. It explores the underlying historical and ecological reasons for the problems associated with our attempts to exclude fire and examines how some of the benefits of natural fire can be restored Chapters consider: the history of American perceptions and uses of fire in the forest how forest fires burn effects of fire on the soil, water, and air methods for uncovering the history and effects of past fires prescribed fire and fuel treatments for different zones in the landscape Flames in Our Forest presents a new picture of the role of fire in maintaining forests, describes the options available for restoring the historical effects of fires, and considers the implications of not doing so. It will help readers appreciate the importance of fire in forests and gives a nontechnical overview of the scientific knowledge and tools available for sustaining western forests by mimicking and restoring the effects of natural fire regimes.

Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130130458

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Effects of Fire on Forests, a Bibiliography by United States. Forest Service Pdf

Author : Yves Bergeron,Sylvie Gauthier
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783038423904

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Fire Regimes: Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests by Yves Bergeron,Sylvie Gauthier Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Fire Regimes: Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests" that was published in Forests

Author : Mildred B. Williams,United States. Forest Service. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : UIUC:30112119965843

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Effects of Fire on Forests by Mildred B. Williams,United States. Forest Service. Library Pdf

Author : William H. Schlesinger
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323138703

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Biogeochemistry by William H. Schlesinger Pdf

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change deals with changes in the biogeochemistry of the Earth's surface. The book covers the basics about the effect of life on the chemistry of the Earth, with emphasis on the microbial and chemical reactions that occur on land, in the sea, and in the atmosphere. Computer models are used to help understand elemental cycling and ecosystem function. This book is divided into two sections and comprised of 14 chapters. The discussion begins with an overview of the chemical processes controlling the environment in which we live. A simple model for the biogeochemistry of the Earth's surface is described. The chapters that follow examine models that astrophysicists suggest for the origin of chemical elements, as well as models for the formation of the solar system and the planets. The biogeochemical reactions in the atmosphere, lithosphere, and terrestrial biosphere are also described, along with rock weathering on land and the processes that drive the weathering reactions. The reader is introduced to biogeochemical cycling on land; biogeochemistry in freshwater wetlands and lakes, rivers and estuaries, and the sea; and the global water, carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles. The book concludes with the argument that human population growth is the basis of every major environmental issue facing the world today. This book is intended as a textbook for college-level and graduate students who are interested in global change.

Author : Peter A. Thomas,Robert S. McAlpine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521822299

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Fire in the Forest by Peter A. Thomas,Robert S. McAlpine Pdf

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fire management
ISBN : WISC:89075327445

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Wildland Fire in Ecosystems by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : UCR:31210014661183

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Effects of Recent Forest Fires in the Western United States by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy Pdf