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100 1 Thomas, Peter A
245 10 Fire in the Forest
264 1 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c2010
264 4 |c©2010
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505 0 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
505 8 Fire size - how big is big? -- 5: Fire ecology -- How
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 overview -- Unpicking 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 -- Weather -- Fuels
and topography -- Values -- Adding it all up - the fire
intelligence function -- Step 1: fire detection -- Passive
detection -- Organised detection -- Fixed detection --
Aerial detection -- Step 2: dispatch -- Resources for fire
suppression -- Ground-based resources -- Aerial-based
resources -- Step 3: suppression -- Step 4: suppression
failure - large fire management -- Fatality fires -- The
fire-management organisation -- Planning ahead -- Planning
beyond the here-and-now
505 8 8: Wildland fire and its management - a look towards the
future -- The age of uncertainty -- Trends and supertrends
-- Technological progress -- Population growth,
distribution and demographics -- Globalisation --
Economics -- Climate change -- Adaptation -- Innovation --
Banff National Park, Canada: a systems-design approach to
ecosystem and fire management -- State Farm Insurance -
changing the odds -- Australia - respecting wildfire and
taking responsibility -- The future - ours for the making
-- Further reading -- References used in the text -- Index
520 An accessible account of how forest fires work, the
ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight
fires
588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other
sources
590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated
libraries
650 0 Forest fires
655 4 Electronic books
700 1 McAlpine, Robert S
700 1 Hirsch, Kelvin
700 1 Hobson, Peter
776 08 |iPrint version:|aThomas, Peter A.|tFire in the Forest
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