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Mixed severity fires : nature's phoenix /

Focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book describes the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as nature's phoenix by drawing from examples of wildfire effects. In ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Ecological importance of mixed-severity fires.
Main Authors: DellaSala, Dominick A., 1956- (Author, Editor), Hanson, Chad T. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2024]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Fire ecology.
Fire management.
Wildfires > Environmental aspects.
Forest fires > Environmental aspects.
Forest fires > Prevention and control > Costs.
Écologie des feux.
Incendies > Lutte contre.
Feux de friches > Aspect de l'environnement.
Forêts > Incendies > Prévention et maîtrise > Coût.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section I. Biodiversity of mixed and high-severity fires
  • 1. Setting the stage for mixed- and high-severity fire / Chad T. Hanson, Dominick A. DellaSala, William L. Baker
  • 2. Ecosystem benefits of megafires / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
  • 3. Using bird ecology to learn about the benefits of severe fire / Richard L. Hutto, Monica L. Bond, Dominick A. DellaSala
  • 4. Mammals and mixed- and high-severity fire / Monica L. Bond
  • Section II. Global perspectives on mixed and high-severity fires
  • 5. Bark beetles and high-severity fires in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests / Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen
  • 6. High-severity fire in chaparral : cognitive dissonance in the shrublands / Richard W. Halsey, Alexandra D. Syphard
  • 7. Regional case studies : Southeast Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
  • 8. What's driving the recent increases in wildfires? / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
  • Section III. Managing mixed and high-severity fires
  • Postfire logging disrupts nature's Phoenix / Dominick A. DellaSala, David B. Lindenmayer, Jim Furnish
  • 10. Forest managers play the backcountry logging fiddle as towns burn down / Dominick A. DellaSala
  • 11. Misinformation about historical and contemporary forests leads to policy failures : a critical assessment of the "overgrown forests" narrative / Chad T. Hanson, Bryant C. Baker
  • 12. Out of the ashes, nature's Phoenix rises / Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson
  • Index.