Mixed severity fires [electronic resource] : nature's phoenix / edited by Dominick A. DellaSala, Chief Scientist, Wild Heritage, a project of the Earth Island Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States ; Chad T. Hanson, Research Ecologist and Director, John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book describes the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as nature's phoenix by drawing from examples of wildfire effects. In ad...
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| Other title: | Ecological importance of mixed-severity fires. |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the stage for mixed- and high-severity fire / Chad T. Hanson, Dominick A. DellaSala, William L. Baker
- Ecosystem benefits of megafires / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
- Using bird ecology to learn about the benefits of severe fire / Richard L. Hutto, Monica L. Bond, Dominick A. DellaSala
- Mammals and mixed- and high-severity fire / Monica L. Bond
- Bark beetles and high-severity fires in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests / Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen
- High-severity fire in chaparral: cognitive dissonance in the shrublands / Richard W. Halsey, Alexandra D. Syphard
- Regional case studies: Southeast Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
- What's driving the recent increases in wildfires? / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
- Postfire logging disrupts nature's Phoenix / Dominick A. DellaSala, David B. Lindenmayer, Jim Furnish
- Forest managers play the backcountry logging fiddle as towns burn down / Dominick A. DellaSala
- Misinformation about historical and contemporary forests leads to policy failures: a critical assessment of the "Overgrown Forests" narrative / Chad T. Hanson, Bryant C. Baker
- Out of the ashes, nature's Phoenix rises / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson.