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Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems: Wildland Fire Science, Policy, and Management [Kõva köide]

(University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), (North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 266 pages, kõrgus x laius: 280x210 mm, kaal: 1240 g, 22 Tables, black and white; 34 Illustrations, color; 140 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2020
  • Kirjastus: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 1138597171
  • ISBN-13: 9781138597174
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 266 pages, kõrgus x laius: 280x210 mm, kaal: 1240 g, 22 Tables, black and white; 34 Illustrations, color; 140 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2020
  • Kirjastus: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 1138597171
  • ISBN-13: 9781138597174
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Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover, the book places itself as a communication between students, fire scientists, and fire fighters, and each of these groups will find some familiar ground, and some challenging aspects in this text: something which ultimately will help to bring us closer together and enrich our different approaches to understanding and managing our changing planet.

-- Sally Archibald, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Most textbooks are as dry as kindling and about as much fun to sink your teeth into. This is not that kind of textbook. Devan Allen McGranahan and Carissa L. Wonkka have taken a complex topic and somehow managed to synthesize it into a comprehensive, yet digestible form. This is a book you can read cover to cover I know, I did it. As a result, I took an enlightening journey through the history and fundamentals of fire and its role in the natural and human world, ending with a thoughtful review of the evolving relationship between humans and wildland fire.

-- Chris Helzer, Nebraska Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy, and author of The Prairie Ecologist blog

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems: Wildland Fire Science, Policy, and Management is intended for use in upper-level courses in fire ecology and wildland fire management and as a reference for researchers, managers, and other professionals involved with wildland fire science, practice, and policy. The book helps guide students and scientists to design and conduct robust wildland fire research projects and critically interpret and apply fire science in any management, education, or policy situation. It emphasizes variability in wildland fire as an ecological regime and provides tools for students, researchers, and managers to assess and connect fire environment and fire behaviour to fire effects.

Fire has not only shaped social and ecological communities but pushed ecosystems beyond previous boundaries, yet understanding the nature and effects of fire as an ecological disturbance has been slow, hampered by the complexity of the dynamic interactions between vegetation and climate and the fear of the destruction fire can bring. This book will help those who study, manage, and use wildland fire to develop new answers and novel solutions, based on an understanding of how fire functions in natural and social environments. It reviews literature, synthesizes concepts, and identifies research gaps and policy needs. The text also explores the interaction of fire and human culture, demonstrating how fire policy can be made adaptable to cultural and socio-ecological objectives.

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What this book achieves is to provide existing fire practitioners and scientists, as well as future generations of students with the tools and insight make our knowledge useful. Devan and Carissa, with their wide range of field experience and immaculate referencing, provide context without confusing or frustrating the reader; and they reinforce this message with simple summary tables and figures based on empirical data from a range of situations. This textbook is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover, the book places itself as a communication between students, fire scientists, and fire fighters, and each of these groups will find some familiar ground, and some challenging aspects in this text: something which ultimately will help to bring us closer together and enrich our different approaches to understanding and managing our changing planet.

-- Sally Archibald, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, September 2020

Most textbooks are as dry as kindling and about as much fun to sink your teeth into. This is not that kind of textbook. Devan McGranahan and Carissa Wonkka have taken a complex topic and somehow managed to synthesize it into a comprehensive, yet digestible form. This is a book you can read cover to cover I know, I did it. As a result, I took an enlightening journey through the history and fundamentals of fire and its role in the natural and human world, ending with a thoughtful review of the evolving relationship between humans and wildland fire.

-- Chris Helzer, Nebraska Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy, and author of The Prairie Ecologist blog

One of the aims of this book is to provide readers with the understanding and vocabulary that is necessary to discuss the physics, ecology and management of wildland fire effectively. In doing this, the authors have written a very readable and very useful summary of a vast field. This book is not a standard text on fire ecology, nor is it a manual on fire behaviour or a practical guide to the application of fire. Rather, it is a broad and very readable introduction to all aspects of wildland fire science. This book should be read by all teachers and students of fire ecology, and I would strongly endorse it for that purpose.

-- Brian W van Wilgen, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa in African Journal of Range and Forage Science, Forthcoming Issue 2021 What this book achieves is to provide existing fire practitioners and scientists, as well as future generations of students with the tools and insight make our knowledge useful. Devan and Carissa, with their wide range of field experience and immaculate referencing, provide context without confusing or frustrating the reader; and they reinforce this message with simple summary tables and figures based on empirical data from a range of situations. This textbook is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover, the book places itself as a communication between students, fire scientists, and fire fighters, and each of these groups will find some familiar ground, and some challenging aspects in this text: something which ultimately will help to bring us closer together and enrich our different approaches to understanding and managing our changing planet.

-- Sally Archibald, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, September 2020

Most textbooks are as dry as kindling and about as much fun to sink your teeth into. This is not that kind of textbook. Devan McGranahan and Carissa Wonkka have taken a complex topic and somehow managed to synthesize it into a comprehensive, yet digestible form. This is a book you can read cover to cover I know, I did it. As a result, I took an enlightening journey through the history and fundamentals of fire and its role in the natural and human world, ending with a thoughtful review of the evolving relationship between humans and wildland fire.

-- Chris Helzer, Nebraska Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy, and author of The Prairie Ecologist blog

One of the aims of this book is to provide readers with the understanding and vocabulary that is necessary to discuss the physics, ecology and management of wildland fire effectively. In doing this, the authors have written a very readable and very useful summary of a vast field. This book is not a standard text on fire ecology, nor is it a manual on fire behaviour or a practical guide to the application of fire. Rather, it is a broad and very readable introduction to all aspects of wildland fire science. This book should be read by all teachers and students of fire ecology, and I would strongly endorse it for that purpose.

-- Brian W van Wilgen, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa in African Journal of Range and Forage Science, Forthcoming Issue 2021

Chapter 1 Introduction
A Brief History Of Fire In The Earth System
1(4)
Natural burning
2(1)
Anthropogenic burning
3(1)
Industrialised fire
3(2)
A Modern Approach To Wildland Fire Science
5(8)
Wildland fire science literacy
5(2)
New perspectives
7(6)
Section I Fire Fundamentals
Chapter 2 From flame to flame front
13(20)
The Chemistry And Physics Of Fire
14(5)
Phases of combustion
15(2)
Heat transfer and propagation
17(2)
Fuels In The Wildland Fire Environment
19(3)
Fuel size classes
19(1)
Fuel moisture
20(1)
The fuelbed and wildland fuel structure
21(1)
Fire Behaviour
22(11)
Fire spread and the flame front
23(1)
Observing fire behaviour
23(1)
Wildland fire anatomy
24(2)
Environmental factors
26(4)
Extreme fire behaviour
30(3)
Chapter 3 Fire regimes past and present
33(18)
Definitions And Descriptions
33(12)
Core parameters
35(7)
Modulators of fire regime
42(2)
Wildland fire effects
44(1)
The Global Fire Footprint
45(6)
Extant fire regimes
45(3)
Reconstructing past fire regimes
48(3)
Chapter 4 The role of humans
51(14)
A Brief Review Of Humans And Fire
51(8)
Indigenous burning
52(1)
Fire suppression--from the colonial era to Smokey Bear
53(1)
Anthropogenic alterations
54(5)
Fire, Management, And Change
59(6)
Range of variability
59(1)
Future fire regimes
60(5)
Section II Fire Effects
Chapter 5 Fundamentals of wildand fire impacts and ecology
65(20)
The Importance Of Scale
65(6)
Relevant ecological sub-fields
66(3)
Fire effects and scale
69(2)
Cultural Resources
71(1)
Direct effects
71(1)
Indirect effects
71(1)
Fire-Adaptive Traits
72(13)
Evolution and natural selection
73(1)
General considerations
74(4)
The origin of fire-adaptive traits
78(7)
Chapter 6 Soil properties
85(14)
Fire, Heating, And Soil Properties
85(4)
Fire effects on soil physical properties
86(3)
Fire effects on soil chemical properties
89(1)
Nutrient Pools
89(7)
Considerations for soil nutrient research
90(1)
Fire effects on nutrient pools
91(5)
Soil Organisms And Mineralisation
96(3)
Soil microbes
96(2)
Mineralisation rates
98(1)
Chapter 7 Water and the atmosphere
99(1)
Erosion, Aquatic Impacts, And Water Resources
99(12)
Post-fire run-off and erosion
99(2)
Fire effects on aquatic ecosystems
101(1)
Fire effects on water quality and supply
102(1)
Air, Weather, And Climate
103(8)
Fire effects on air quality
104(1)
Fire effects on weather
105(2)
Climate-fire interactions
107(4)
Chapter 8 Individuals and populations
111(20)
Direct Effects On Individuals
111(5)
General considerations
112(1)
Plant-specific responses
113(2)
Animal-specific responses
115(1)
Population-Level Impacts
116(10)
Plant population dynamics
116(4)
Indirect effects on animal populations
120(6)
Conducting Robust Population Ecology
126(5)
Metapopulation dynamics
126(1)
Animal-specific considerations
126(1)
First-order fire effects models
127(1)
Demographic models
128(3)
Chapter 9 Pyrodiversity
131(22)
Biodiversity And Community Ecology
132(8)
Succession and assembly
133(1)
Emergent properties of biodiversity
134(1)
Quantifying biodiversity
134(4)
Evidence for pyrodiversity
138(2)
Community-Level Interactions
140(5)
Interactions among disturbances
140(2)
Interactions among community members
142(3)
The Landscape Perspective
145(8)
Patchiness
146(3)
The functional role of heterogeneity
149(4)
Section III Human Dimensions
Chapter 10 Cultural connections to fire
153(18)
Fire And Early Human Culture
153(9)
Early human fire use
154(3)
The role of fire in shaping human diet
157(2)
Primate response to fire
159(1)
Implications of human fire control
160(2)
Local And Indigenous Fire Use
162(9)
Historical and intact western fire cultures
162(3)
Grey areas between sanctioned and unsanctioned ignitions
165(1)
Extant indigenous and non-western fire cultures
166(5)
Chapter 11 Institutional management and policy
171(14)
History Of Us Fire Management Policy
171(7)
Establishment
172(1)
Systemisation and centralisation
173(2)
Reevaluation
175(2)
Redirection and reorganisation
177(1)
International Fire Management Policy
178(7)
Africa
178(4)
Mediterranean Europe
182(1)
Australia
183(2)
Chapter 12 Coexisting with wildland fire
185(15)
Living With Fire
185(4)
The coupled socio-ecological system
186(1)
Grass roots fire management
187(1)
Fuel management and resource protection
188(1)
The Wildland-Urban Interface
189(3)
A sprawling problem
189(2)
Building fire-safe communities
191(1)
Wildland Fire Use: Barriers And Opportunities
192(8)
Norms, attitudes, and perceptions related to fire
192(1)
Risk and risk management
193(4)
Regulatory restrictions
197(3)
About the authors 200(1)
References cited 201(44)
Image attributions 245(4)
Index 249
Devan Allen McGranahan grew up on his familys farm in Clay County, Iowa. After graduating from Grinnell College with a BA in Biology, he spent a year in Southern Africa conducting independent research on rangeland management and biodiversity conservation supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He studied patch-burn grazing at Iowa State University, earning a MS in Sustainable Agriculture and a PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. After a post-doctoral fellowship at The University of the South in Sewanee,Tennessee, he spent nine months in the Department of Grassland Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa, supported by a Fulbright Faculty Teaching/Research Award and an International Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. While writing this book, he was an Assistant Professor of Range Science in the School for Natural Resource Sciences at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota.

Carissa Lyn Wonkka grew up in western Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2003 with a BS in Wildlife Conservation & Management. She earned a JD from Suffolk University Law School in 2008, then received her MS in Rangeland Ecology & Management and PhD in Ecosystem Science & Management from Texas A&M. She worked for four years as a post-doctoral research associate at University of NebraskaLincoln, before taking a position as Research Ecologist at the USDA ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory in Sidney, Montana.