Fire In The Tropical Biota

Author : Johann G. Goldammer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642753954

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In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany. The scope of the congresses was to create a platform for researchers at a time when the science of fire ecology was not yet recognized and established outside of North America and Australia. Whereas comprehensive information on the fire ecology of the northern boreal, the temperate, and the mediter ranean biotas is meanwhile available, it was recognized that conside rable gaps in information exist on the role of fire in tropical und sub tropical ecosystems. Thus it seemed timely to meet the growing scientific interest and public demand for reliable and updated infor mation and to synthesize the available knowledge of tropical fire ecology and the impact of tropical biomass burning on global eco system processes. The Third Symposium on Fire Ecology, again sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and held at Freiburg University in May 1989, was convened to prepare this first pantropical and multidisci plinary monograph on fire ecology!. The book, in which 46 scientists cooperated, analyzes those fire-related ecosystem processes which have not yet been described in a synoptic way. Following the editor's concept, duplication at previous efforts in describing tropical vegeta tion patterns and dynamics was avoided. Extensive bibliographical sources are given in the reference lists of the chapters.

Author : Johann Georg Goldammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540521151

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In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany. The scope of the congresses was to create a platform for researchers at a time when the science of fire ecology was not yet recognized and established outside of North America and Australia. Whereas comprehensive information on the fire ecology of the northern boreal, the temperate, and the mediter ranean biotas is meanwhile available, it was recognized that conside rable gaps in information exist on the role of fire in tropical und sub tropical ecosystems. Thus it seemed timely to meet the growing scientific interest and public demand for reliable and updated infor mation and to synthesize the available knowledge of tropical fire ecology and the impact of tropical biomass burning on global eco system processes. The Third Symposium on Fire Ecology, again sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and held at Freiburg University in May 1989, was convened to prepare this first pantropical and multidisci plinary monograph on fire ecology!. The book, in which 46 scientists cooperated, analyzes those fire-related ecosystem processes which have not yet been described in a synoptic way. Following the editor's concept, duplication at previous efforts in describing tropical vegeta tion patterns and dynamics was avoided. Extensive bibliographical sources are given in the reference lists of the chapters.

Author : Mark Cochrane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540773818

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Tropical Fire Ecology by Mark Cochrane Pdf

The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.

Author : Alan N. Andersen,Garry D. Cook,Richard J. Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387215150

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Fire in Tropical Savannas by Alan N. Andersen,Garry D. Cook,Richard J. Williams Pdf

Fire is a major agent of disturbance in many biomes of the world but is a particularly important feature of tropical savannas. Up to 50% of the ext- sive tropical savanna landscapes of northern Australia are burnt each year. This includes prestigious conservation reserves such as World Heritage— listed Kakadu National Park, in the Top End of the Northern Territory. As in other savanna regions of the world, the responses of biota to different ?re regimes are poorly understood, such that ?re management represents one of the greatest challenges to conservation managers and researchers alike. This is the context within which a landscape-scale ?re experiment was established at Kapalga Research Station in Kakadu,which aimed to provide a sound scienti?c basis for conservation management in the region. The experiment was established by The Australian Commonwealth Scienti?c and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),but involved collaborators from a range of universities and government agencies, including the m- agers of Kakadu,the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA:now Parks Australia North). This book summarizes the ?ndings from the Kapalga ?re experiment and explores the implications for conservation management. We believe that Kapalga has provided important insights into the ?re ecology of tropical savannas and has broad relevance for the conservation management of ?- prone landscapes in general. This book should be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and land management agencies. vii viii Preface We are extremely grateful to all our collaborators,both inside and outside CSIRO, for their involvement in the Kapalga experiment.

Author : Alan N. Andersen,Garry D. Cook,Richard J. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 038700291X

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Fire in Tropical Savannas by Alan N. Andersen,Garry D. Cook,Richard J. Williams Pdf

Fire is a major agent of disturbance in many biomes of the world but is a particularly important feature of tropical savannas. Up to 50% of the ext- sive tropical savanna landscapes of northern Australia are burnt each year. This includes prestigious conservation reserves such as World Heritage— listed Kakadu National Park, in the Top End of the Northern Territory. As in other savanna regions of the world, the responses of biota to different ?re regimes are poorly understood, such that ?re management represents one of the greatest challenges to conservation managers and researchers alike. This is the context within which a landscape-scale ?re experiment was established at Kapalga Research Station in Kakadu,which aimed to provide a sound scienti?c basis for conservation management in the region. The experiment was established by The Australian Commonwealth Scienti?c and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),but involved collaborators from a range of universities and government agencies, including the m- agers of Kakadu,the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA:now Parks Australia North). This book summarizes the ?ndings from the Kapalga ?re experiment and explores the implications for conservation management. We believe that Kapalga has provided important insights into the ?re ecology of tropical savannas and has broad relevance for the conservation management of ?- prone landscapes in general. This book should be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and land management agencies. vii viii Preface We are extremely grateful to all our collaborators,both inside and outside CSIRO, for their involvement in the Kapalga experiment.

Author : David Burslem,Michelle Pinard,Sue Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139446258

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Biotic Interactions in the Tropics by David Burslem,Michelle Pinard,Sue Hartley Pdf

To understand how tropical ecosystems work we need to appreciate how the organisms within them interact with each other. This volume, first published in 2005, synthesises the state of knowledge in this area, providing reviews or case studies from both Old and New World tropics and dealing with taxa at all trophic levels.

Author : J. Goldammer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034872560

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Tropical Forests in Transition by J. Goldammer Pdf

In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes and climate oscillations were associated with changing precipitation and drought regimes, flooding, siltation, landslides, etc. The prehistorical forest was also influenced by the effects of large wildlife populations. Large-scale catastrophies in the forest biomes were mainly caused by abiotic environmental alterations, the small-scale disturbances were and still are related to both biotic and abiotic processes. Both the large-and the small-scale disturbances have played a significant role in shaping distribution, dynamics, structure and composition of the paleoforest. After the expansion of hominids and early humans, and later, by modern humans, the anthropogenic influences on the tropical forest began to overlap natural disturbances. Today's anthropogenic impacts on the tropical forests differ qualitatively and quanitatively from the natural disturbances. The speed of tropical deforestation and savannization is dramatically increasing. The physical and chemical impacts of forest conversion and biomass burning add to other anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere and climate. The expected anthropogenic climate change will also have considerable impacts on the tropical flora and fauna. The book on "Tropical Forests in Transition" synthesizes information on changing environmental conditions and human impacts on the tropical forest by looking back to the paleoecology, analyzing the impact of modern human populations and modeling the future of the tropical forest in a changing environment. The aim of the book is to strengthen multidisciplinary thinking in disturbance ecology.

Author : Ross Andrew Bradstock,Richard James Williams,A. M. Gill
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780643104822

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Flammable Australia by Ross Andrew Bradstock,Richard James Williams,A. M. Gill Pdf

Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia.

Author : Joel S. Levine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0262122014

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Biomass Burning and Global Change: Remote sensing, modeling and inventory development, and biomass burning in Africa by Joel S. Levine Pdf

Global Biomass Burning provides a convenient and current reference on such topics as the remote sensing of biomass burning from space, the geographical distribution of burning; the combustion products of burning in tropical, temperate, and boreal ecosystems; burning as a global source of atmospheric gases and particulates; the impact of biomass burning gases and particulates on global climate; and the role of biomass burning on biodiversity and past global extinctions."--Pub. desc.

Author : Robert J. Whelan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521328722

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The Ecology of Fire by Robert J. Whelan Pdf

Wildfires kill many animals, but are populations of animals affected? How do animals survive the passage of fire? Why do some tree species survive and others die in a fire? Do frequent fires cause changes in plant community composition? Answering questions such as these requires an understanding of the ecological effects of fire. Aimed at senior undergraduate students, researchers, foresters and other land managers, Dr Whelan's book examines the changes wrought by fires with reference to general ecological theory. The impacts of fires on individual organisms, populations and communities are examined separately, and emphasis is placed on the importance of fire regime. Each chapter includes a listing of 'outstanding questions' that identify gaps in current knowledge. The book finishes by summarising the major aspects of ecology that are of particular relevance to management of fires - both protection against wildfires and deliberate use of fire.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Community forests
ISBN : 9251042896

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FAO Meeting on Public Policies Affecting Forest Fires by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Author : Adam Markham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401727303

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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems by Adam Markham Pdf

Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate. Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.

Author : Joel S. Levine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0262122022

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Biomass Burning and Global Change: Biomass burning in South America, Southeast Asia, and temperate and boreal ecosystems, and the oil fires of Kuwait by Joel S. Levine Pdf

Global Biomass Burning provides a convenient and current reference on such topics as the remote sensing of biomass burning from space, the geographical distribution of burning; the combustion products of burning in tropical, temperate, and boreal ecosystems; burning as a global source of atmospheric gases and particulates; the impact of biomass burning gases and particulates on global climate; and the role of biomass burning on biodiversity and past global extinctions."--Pub. desc.

Author : Kevin M. Cleaver
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821322567

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Conservation de la Forêt Dense en Afrique Centrale Et de L'Ouest by Kevin M. Cleaver Pdf

This volume brings together selected papers presented and discussed at the Conference on Conservation of West and Central African Rainforests, held in Abidjan, November 5-9, 1990.

Author : Robert B. Batchelder,Howard Franklin Hirt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : OSU:32435016809295

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Fire in Tropical Forests and Grasslands by Robert B. Batchelder,Howard Franklin Hirt Pdf