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Sediment records of biomass burning and global change
1 online resource (xi, 489 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Biomass burning profoundly affects atmospheric chemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate and may have done so for millions of years. Bringing together renowned experts from paleoecology, fire ecology, atmospheric chemistry, and organic chemistry, the volume elucidates the role of fire during global changes of the past and future. Topics covered include: the characterization of combustion products that occur in sediments, including char, soot/fly ash, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; the calibration of these constituents against atmospheric measurements from wildland and prescribed fire emissions; spatial and temporal patterns in combustion emissions at scales of individual burns to the globe.
An Introduction to Sediment Records of Biomass Burning / J.S. Clark -- Proposed Bio-Geological and Chemical Based Terminology for Fire-Altered Plant Matter / T.P. Jones, W.G. Chaloner and T.A.J. Kuhlbusch -- Background and Local Charcoal in Sediments: Scales of Fire Evidence in the Paleorecord / J.S. Clark and W.A. Patterson III -- Reconstruction of Paleo-Fire Through Climate and Eco-System Models / M.A. Fosberg and S. Levis -- The Culture of Fire: An Introduction to Anthropogenic Fire History / S.J. Pyne and J.G. Goldammer -- Characterization of Particulate Products of Biomass Combustion / T. Novakov, H. Cachier and J.S. Clark [and others] -- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Records of Biomass Burning / R.G. Zepp and S.A. Macko -- Biomass Consumption and Behavior of Wildland Fires in Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Ecosystems: Parameters Necessary to Interpret Historic Fire Regimes and Future Fire Scenarios / B.J. Stocks and J.B. Kauffman.
edited by James S. Clark, Hélène Cachier, Johann G. Goldammer, Brian Stocks.
"Proceedings of the NATO advanced study institute 'Biomass burning emissions and global change, ' held in Praia de Alvor, Algarve, Portugal, October 1994"--Title page verso.
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."