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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.01.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

434

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/18,7/2,7 cm

Gewicht

919 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-95356-2

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"The well-organized and illustrated work can be used as a textbook or a reference source for practitioners. Each chapter has a list of further readings, and each part has its own extensive bibliography. This phenomenal contribution will become a classic reference for five mangers, students of fire ecology and climate, and researchers for years to come. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 October 2014)
 
"Overall, the book provides an excellent, multidisciplinary introduction to fire, authored by leading experts in their fields, written in a very accessible style and supported by superb illustrations and extensive references. Hence, I highly recommend it to potential readers, who may be upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, teaching staff and everyone working, or simply interested, in the area of environmental science." (International Journal of Wildland Fire, 1 August 2014)
 
"Fire and earth scientists, anthropologists, ecologists, resource managers, and especially advanced students in natural sciences will find the text, along with its online resources, a requisite addition to their libraries. Not only is it a pleasure to read, simply put, it sparks the imagination." (Fire Ecology, 1 June 2014)
 
"With wildfire recognised in key government contingency documents, not least for climate change, foresters looking for greater understanding of this future challenge over the coming decades, should look no further." (Chartered Forester, 1 May 2014)
 
"This book is a good example of a multidisciplinary investigation. The writers express the wish that it may stimulate further research into fire processes, both 'natural' and induced by humanity. A book worth reading!." (Geological Journal, 29 April 2014)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.01.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

434

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/18,7/2,7 cm

Gewicht

919 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-95356-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Fire on Earth

  • Preface xiii

    Acknowledgements xv

    About the Authors xvii

    About the Companion Website xix

    PART ONE FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM 1

    Preface to part one 2

    Chapter 1 What is fire? 3

    1.1 How fire starts and initially spreads 3

    1.2 Lightning and other ignition sources 4

    1.3 The charring process 6

    1.4 Pyrolysis products 7

    1.5 Fire types 10

    1.6 Peat fires 14

    1.7 Fire effects on soils 15

    1.8 Post-fire erosion-deposition 18

    1.9 Fire and vegetation 22

    1.10 Fire and climate 26

    1.11 Fire triangles 30

    1.12 Fire return intervals 30

    1.13 How we study fire: satellites 31

    1.14 Modelling fire occurrence 38

    1.15 Climate forcing 42

    1.16 Scales of fire occurrence 44

    Further reading 45

    Chapter 2 Fire in the fossil record: recognition 47

    2.1 Fire proxies: fire scars and charcoal 47

    2.2 The problem of nomenclature: black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon 49

    2.3 How we study charcoal: microscopical and chemical techniques 51

    2.4 Charcoal as an information-rich source 56

    2.5 Charcoal reflectance and temperature 56

    2.6 Uses of charcoal 58

    2.7 Fire intensity/severity 59

    2.8 Deep time studies 60

    2.9 Pre-requisite for fire: fuel - the evolution of plants 61

    2.10 Charcoal in sedimentary systems 62

    Further reading 63

    Chapter 3 Fire in the fossil record: earth system processes 65

    3.1 Fire and oxygen 65

    3.2 Fire feedbacks 67

    3.3 Systems diagrams 67

    3.4 Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen 69

    3.5 Burning experiments - fire spread 69

    3.6 Fire and the terrestrial system 70

    Further reading 72

    Chapter 4 The geological history of fire in deep time: 420 million years to 2 million years ago 73

    4.1 Periods of high and low fire, and implications 73

    4.2 The first fires 73

    4.3 The rise of fire 75

    4.4 Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world 77

    4.5 Collapse of fire systems 80

    4.6 Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary 82

    4.7 Jurassic variation 82

    4.8 Cretaceous fires 84

    4.9 Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary 87

    4.10 Paleocene fires 88

    4.11 Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) 88

    4.12 Dampening of fire systems 89

    4.13 Rise of the grass-fire cycle 89

    Further reading 89

    Chapter 5 The geological history of fire - the last two million years 91

    5.1 Problems of Quaternary fire history 91

    5.2 The Paleofire working group: techniques and analysis 93

    5.3 Fire and climate cycles 97

    5.4 Fire and humans: the fossil evidence 98

    5.5 Fire and the industrial society 101

    Further reading 101

    References for part one 103

    PART TWO BIOLOGY OF FIRE 111

    Preface to part two 112

    Chapter 6 Pyrogeography - temporal and spatial patterns of fire 113

    6.1 Fire and life 113

    6.2 Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire 113

    6.3 Pyrogeography 116

    6.4 Fire and the control of biome boundaries 121

    6.5 The fire regime concept 125

    6.6 Fire ecology 128

    6.7 Conclusion 129

    Further reading 129

    Chapter 7 Plants and fire 131

    7.1 Introduction 131

    7.2 Fire and plant traits 131

    7.3 Fire regimes and the characteristic suite of fire plant traits 137

    7.4 Evolution of fire traits 140

    7.5 Summary and implications 145

    Further reading 145

    General reading 146

    Chapter 8 Fire and fauna 147

    8.1 Direct effects of fire on fauna 147

    8.2 The effect of fire regimes on fauna 148

    8.3 The landscape mosaic and pyrodiversity 150

    8.4 The effect of fauna on fire regimes 152

    8.5 Fire and the evolution of fauna 154

    8.6 Summary 155

    Further reading 155

    Chapter 9 Fire as an ecosystem process 157

    9.1 Introduction 157

    9.2 Fire and erosion 157

    9.3 Fire and nutrient cycling 160

    9.4 Fire and pedogenesis 163

    9.5 Fire and atmospheric chemistry 164

    9.6 Fire and climate 165

    9.7 Summary 168

    Further reading 169

    Chapter 10 Fire and anthropogenic environmental change 171

    10.1 Introduction 171

    10.2 Prehistoric impacts 171

    10.3 Prehistoric fire management 174

    10.4 Contemporary fire management 176

    10.5 Climate change 177

    10.6 Fire and carbon management 180

    10.7 Fire regime switches: a major challenge for fire ecology 180

    10.8 Invasive plants and altered fire regimes 184

    10.9 Conclusion 187

    Further reading 187

    References for part two 189

    PART THREE ANTHROPOGENIC FIRE 193

    Preface to part three 194

    Chapter 11 Fire creature 195

    11.1 Early hominins: spark of creation 195

    11.2 Aboriginal fire: control over ignition 198

    11.3 Cultivated fire: control over combustibles 206

    11.4 Ideas and institutions: lore and ritual 220

    11.5 Narrative arcs (and equants) 221

    Further reading 229

    Chapter 12 A new epoch of fire: the anthropocene 231

    12.1 The Great Disruption 231

    12.2 The pyric transition 232

    12.3 Enlightenment and empire 236

    12.4 Scaling the transition 238

    12.5 After the revolution 245

    Further reading 257

    Chapter 13 Fire management 259

    13.1 Introducing integrated fire management 259

    13.2 Two realms: managing the pyric transition 260

    13.3 Strategies 261

    13.4 Institutions: ordering fire 272

    13.5 Ideas: conceptions of fire 277

    13.6 Fire management: selected examples 279

    Further reading 289

    References and further reading for part three 291

    PART FOUR THE SCIENCE AND ART OF WILDLAND FIRE BEHAVIOUR PREDICTION 295

    Preface to part four 296

    Chapter 14 Fundamentals of wildland fire as a physical process 297

    14.1 Introduction 297

    14.2 The basics of combustion and heat transfer 298

    14.3 The wildland fire environment concept 303

    14.4 Characterization of wildland fire behaviour 315

    14.5 Extreme wildland fire behaviour phenomena 329

    14.6 Field methods of measuring and quantifying wildland fire behaviour 336

    14.7 Towards increasing our understanding of wildland fire behaviour 337

    Further reading 339

    Chapter 15 Estimating free-burning wildland fire behaviour 341

    15.1 Introduction 341

    15.2 A historical sketch of wildland fire behaviour research 342

    15.3 Models, systems and guides for predicting wildland fire behaviour 350

    15.4 Limitations on the accuracy of model predictions of wildland fire behaviour 359

    15.5 The wildland fire behaviour prediction process 363

    15.6 Specialized support in assessing wildland fire behaviour 370

    15.7 Looking ahead 371

    Further reading 372

    Chapter 16 Fire management applications of wildland fire behaviour knowledge 373

    16.1 Introduction 373

    16.2 Wildfire suppression 376

    16.3 Wildland firefighter safety 378

    16.4 Community wildland fire protection 382

    16.5 Fuels management 383

    16.6 Prediction of fire effects 388

    16.7 Getting on the road towards self-improvement 389

    Further reading 390

    References for part four 393

    Index 405