Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix, Second Edition 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 addition, the book describes management and policies that have contributed to wildfire problems, including climate change and land-use practices incompatible with nature’s phoenix and what must happen to get to coexistence with wildfires that are not going away no matter how much we try to suppress or alter fire behavior. Comprehensive and complete reference on wildfire ecology that includes the latest science and citationsDebunks debates on wildfire management that can be used by conservation groups and decision-makers to shift egregious wildfire policiesContains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires, covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions INDICE: Section I: Biodiversity of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires1. Setting the Stage for Mixed- and High-Severity Fires2. Ecological and Biodiversity Benefits of Mega-Fires3. Using Bird Ecology to Learn about the Benefits of Severe Fire4. Mammal Habitat Selection in Mixed- and High-Severity Fires5. Stream-Riparian Ecosystems of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires6. Bark Beetles and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine ForestsSection 2: Global Perspectives on Mixed- and High-Severity Fires7. High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands8. Regional Case Studies of Mixed-Severity Fires: South-East Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada9. Climate Change and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires: Uncertainties, Shifting Baselines, and Fire Management10. Carbon Dynamics of Mixed- and High-Severity Wildfires: Pyrogenic CO2 Emissions, Post-fire Carbon Balance, and SuccessionSection 3: Managing Mixed- and High-Severity Fires11. In the Aftermath of Mixed- and High-Severity Fire: Logging and Related Actions Degrade Mixed and High-Severity Burn Areas12. The Rising Costs of Wildfire Suppression and the Case for Ecological Fire Use13. How wildfires behave in older forests14. After Fire Forests Are Born Again15. Debunking the Debunkers16. Flight of the Phoenix: Coexisting with Mixed-Severity Fires
- ISBN: 978-0-443-13790-7
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 450
- Fecha Publicación: 21/06/2024
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés