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Author : Robert B. Batchelder,Howard Franklin Hirt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : OSU:32435016809295
Author : Robert B. Batchelder,Howard F. Hirt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : OCLC:896758786
Author : Johann G. Goldammer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642753954
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 : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540773818
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 : T.T. Kozlowski
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323146173
Fire and Ecosystems focuses on a number of aspects of fire ecology. This book deals separately with both harmful and beneficial effects of fire on soils, soil organisms, animals, and plants. This reference material elucidates the effects of fire on grasslands and considers the role of fire in temperate forests and related ecosystems. Four chapters are presented on a regional basis to highlight variations in responses, especially plant succession, to fire. The use of fire in land management is also explored. This book will serve as an invaluable reference material to researchers, teachers, and land managers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : OSU:32435064261738
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fire management
ISBN : WISC:89075327445
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D02259482E
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Forest
ISBN : 9781625133762
Written in British English, Forest Fire! describes how, why and where forest fires happen.
Author : Mark A. Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113874866
This document provides an overview of the forest fire situation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the impact that they have had on the region and its population over the past few years. It examines the causes, effects and implications of fires and links them to fire management tools available to policy makers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fire ecology
ISBN : 1973807947
Author : P. de V. Booysen,N. M. Tainton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642698057
This is a stimulating tale of the interplay of observation, experimentation, working hypotheses, tentative conclusions, niggling and weightier doubts and great aspirations, on the part of some score of students, on varied ecological and other aspects of the regime and role of fire in relevant biomes and ecosystem- mainly in South Africa - and on other pertinent features of fire ecology. The impressive contents is a tribute to conveners and authors alike. One can expect a profound range and depth ofinvestigation and interpretation, a closeknit fabric of knowledge, delicately interwoven with wisdom, an exposition and quintessence of information. Admipable is the collective vision responsible for selecting appropriate topics: the wide sweeps of the brush picturing the nature of the biomes; ably describing the fire regimes - whether in grassland, savanna, fynbos or forest; skillfully defining the effects of such regimes - according to ecosystem - upon aerial and edaphic factors of the habitat, upon constituent biota, individually, specifically and as a biotic community; elucidating the basic implications in the structure and dynamics of the plant aspect of that community ... and unravelling to some degree the tangled knot of the conservation and dissipation of moisture and nutrients. Moreover, gratitude is owed for efforts exerted to understand the interplay of fire and faunal behaviour and dynamics as well as composition, together with the principle of adaptive responses of organisms of diverse kinds.
Author : António José Bento Gonçalves,António Avelino Batista Vieira
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Wildfires
ISBN : 163483397X
It has been estimated that more than 30% of the global land surface is subject to a considerable frequency of vegetation fires (Chuvieco et al., 2008). Li et al. (2013, 2014) argues that fire is an important Earth system process and a primary terrestrial ecosystem disturbance agent on a global scale which depends on an array of attributes, including vegetation characteristics, climate, and human activities, and fire generates feedback by affecting biogeochemical cycles, vegetation composition and structure, landatmosphere water and heat exchanges, atmospheric chemistry and composition, and human health and property. Although wildland fires are characteristic of certain regions and seasons, vegetation fires occur with varying regularity and severity across almost every biome on Earth (Archibald et al., 2013). Earth's forests and vegetation provide a vast source of fuel, and fires consume huge quantities of biomass in all ecosystems ranging across all biomes, from tundra to savanna and from boreal to tropical forests, where many of our ecosystems are considered fire dependent (Belcher, 2013). It is both friend and foe to the human race, having strongly influenced our social development and success as a species, but also acts as a serious threat to human life (Belcher, 2013). The present book outlines different perspectives regarding wildland fires, mega fires, wildland-urban interfaces, and its ecosystem impacts. It also presents different case-studies from eight countries (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Israel, Algeria, Russia, Lithuania and Chile), including valuable contributions that reflect its title: "Wildland Fires - A Worldwide Reality".
Author : Randall W. Myster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461437970
Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed. Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen for a long time, perhaps largely due to climate change and other human-induced factors. Indeed ecotones are more sensitive to climate change than the biomes on either side, and thus may serve as critical early indicators of future climate change. As ecotones change, they also redefine the limits of the biomes on either side by altering their distributions of species because, in addition to their own endemic species, any ecotone will also have species from both adjoining biomes. Consequently, they may also be places of high levels of species interaction, serving as active evolutionary laboratories, which generate new species that then migrate back into adjacent biomes. Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland explores how these ecotones have changed in the past, how they are changing today, and how they are likely to change in the future. The book includes chapters from around the world with a special focus on South American and Neotropical ecotones.
Author : J. Louise Mastrantonio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : MINN:31951D029873291
