The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix
- ISBN-10
- 0128027606
- ISBN-13
- 9780128027608
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 450
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-08
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Authors
- Dominick A DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
Description
The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on fire prevention and suppression, little has been reported on the ecological role of fire, and nothing has been presented on the importance of high-severity fire with regards to the maintenance of native biodiversity and fire-dependent ecosystems and species. This text fills that void, providing a comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's ecological role. Offers the first reference written on mixed- and high-severity fires and their relevance for biodiversity Contains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions Explores the conservation vs. public controversy issues around megafires in a rapidly warming world
Get the book
Similar books
-
Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
By Chad T. HansonSmokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race.
-
Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
By Edward Struzik"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading.
-
Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
By Julian Evans, John A. YoungquistAlso available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible ...
-
Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
By Chad T. Hanson—Europe: fire history; trends; wildlife —fire return interval: forest mismanagement; mathematical errors —fire rotation interval: definition; ecological implications —future climate projections: current and future patterns and trends; ...
-
Disturbance Ecology and Biological Diversity: Context, Nature, and Scale
By Dominick A. DellaSala, Erik A. Beever, Inger Suzanne PrangeIn D. A. DellaSala and C. T. Hanson, editors, The Ecological Importance of Mixed-severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix, 348–371. ... Forest Ecology and Management 355:4–14. ... Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis.
-
Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes
México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Xalapa, México, pp. 163–179. Castillo-Campos, G., Bautista-Bello, A.P., ...
-
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
Shore RF, Pereira MG, Potter ED, and Walker LA (2015) Monitoring rodenticide residues in wildlife. In: Buckle AP and Smith RH (eds.) Rodent pests and their control, 2nd edn, pp. 346–365. Wallingford: CAB International.
-
Fire in California's Ecosystems
By Jan W. van WagtendonkProceedings of the invasive species workshop: the role of fire in the control and spread of invasive species. ... of fire frequency and distance to firebreak on the distribution and abundance of exotic species in coastal sage scrub.
-
Predicting, Monitoring, and Assessing Forest Fire Dangers and Risks
By Baranovskiy, Nikolay ViktorovichAssessing the predictability of fire occurrence and area burned across phytoclimatic regions in Spain . ... Ecological Modelling , 205 ( 3-4 ) , 336–342 . doi : 10.1016 ... The ecological importance of mixed - severity fires .
-
Ecological Restoration: Wildfire Ecology Reference Manual
By Doug KnowlingBoston, Massachusetts: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13250882-6. 4.7. External. links. • The California Chaparral Institute website • [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] 4.7. 51 EXTERNAL LINKS External links.