Produktbild: Fire on Earth

Fire on Earth An Introduction

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Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

28.01.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

434

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/19,4/3 cm

Gewicht

1086 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-95357-9

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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

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

28.01.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

434

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/19,4/3 cm

Gewicht

1086 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-95357-9

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 fi