Fire in the Forest.
An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.
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Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; FIRE IN THE FOREST; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1: In the beginning; The nature of fire; Just how widespread are forest fires?; 2: Historical review; The earliest beginnings of fire in geological time; Tertiary and Quaternary
- the last 65 million years; Holocene
- the last 10 000 years; The intervention of humans; Uses of fire; Control of fire
- careful or careless?; Effect of aboriginal people on the landscape; Arrival of the Europeans; Bambi and Smokey Bear; Reduced fire frequencies; Fire control to fire management.
- Are fire frequencies increasing again?3: How a fire burns; Mechanics of fire; Pre-ignition; Ignition; Combustion; Heat transfer; Variation in fuel quality; Moisture; Chemical make-up; Size and shape; Temperature and energy; Anatomy of a fire; Types of fire; Ground fire; Surface fire; Crown fire; Dynamics of extreme fires; Convection columns; Spot fires; Fire whirls, horizontal roll vortices and fire storms; Scales of fire impact smoke; 4: Fire in the wild landscape; Causes of wildfire
- how do they start?; Lightning; Volcanism; Human fire starters; Other sources; What starts most fires?
- Which burns most area?The fire behaviour triangle; Fuel considerations fires are what they consume; Types of fuel; Drying of fuel; Fuel arrangement; Amount of fuel; Fuel load; Available fuel; Link between fuel and fire behaviour; The effect of climate and weather; Climate effects; Weather effects; Fire season; Variability in how a fire spreads; Chance; Fuel quality and amount; Topography; The complexity of fire spread; Patterns/mosaics on the landscape; Patterns of fire over time; What affects how often a piece of land reburns?; Reconstructing fire history; Fire size
- how big is big?
- 5: Fire ecologyHow plants survive a surface fire; Thick bark; Resprouting; Fire stimulation of flowering; Ground fires and plant survival; How plants cope with a crown fire; Seed storage in the canopy serotiny; Seed storage in the soil; What makes buried seeds germinate at the right time?; Sneaking past
- invasion after a fire; Combining these strategies; Bacteria and fungi; Animals and fire; What kinds of animals are killed during a fire?; What happens to animal numbers after a fire?; Post-fire recovery of plants and animals; 6: The benefits of fire and its use as a landscape tool.
- Fire and biodiversity
- an overviewUnpicking the factors that affect biodiversity; Fire frequency; Intensity and severity; Season; Patchiness and animals
- does size matter?; Other factors; Environmental legacies: dead wood and biodiversity; Fire, forests and conservation; Can clear-cutting replace fire?; The future for fire-prone forests: environmental uncertainty, macroecology and ecosystem resilience; Fire as a management tool in the landscape; Fire and soils; The wildland-urban interface (WUI); The role of prescribed burning in wildland-urban interface areas; 7: Fire suppression.
- Preliminary steps
- fire intelligence.