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Forest fires : behavior and ecological effects /

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 dependen...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Group Author: Johnson, E. A. Edward Arnold; Miyanishi, Kiyoko
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego, Calif. :
Publication Dates: 2001.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Forest fires
Fire ecology
Forest management
Ecology
Fire Behavior
E cologie
Fore ts > Incendies
E cologie des feux
Fore ts > Gestion
NATURE > Plants > Trees
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Forests & Rainforests
INCE NDIO FLORESTAL
Skogsbra nder
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123866608
Summary: 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 physi
Item Description: "First drafts of each chapter were discussed ... [at a] workshop held at and funded by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara"--Page xv.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvii, 594 pages, [4] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080506746
0080506747
Index Number: SD421
CLC: S718.5
Contents: Strengthening fire ecology's roots / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi -- Flames / K. Saito -- Combustion chemistry and smoke / D. Ward -- Water relations of forest fuels / Ralph M. Nelson, Jr. -- Wildland fire spread models / R.O. Weber -- Wind-aided fire spread / F.E. Fendell and M.F. Wolff -- Fire plumes / G.N. Mercer and R.O. Weber -- Coupling atmospheric and fire models / Mary Ann Jenkins, Terry Clark and Janice Coen -- Surface energy budget and fuel moisture / Kenneth E. Kunkel -- Climate, weather, and area burned / M.D. Flannigan and B.M. Wotton -- Lightning and forest fires / Do

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