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Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others]
| Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others] |
| Autore | Scott Andrew C |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
| Disciplina | 541.361 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fire - History
Fire ecology Fire management Forest fires Wildfires |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-95357-X
1-118-53409-3 1-118-57071-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Fire on Earth: An Introduction; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; About the Companion Website; Part One: Fire in the Earth System; Preface to part one; Chapter 1 What is fire?; 1.1 How fire starts and initially spreads; 1.2 Lightning and other ignition sources; 1.3 The charring process; 1.4 Pyrolysis products; 1.4.1 Soot; 1.4.2 Volatile gases and compounds; 1.5 Fire types; 1.6 Peat fires; 1.7 Fire effects on soils; 1.8 Post-fire erosion-deposition; 1.9 Fire and vegetation; 1.10 Fire and climate; 1.11 Fire triangles; 1.12 Fire return intervals
1.13 How we study fire: satellites1.14 Modelling fire occurrence; 1.15 Climate forcing; 1.16 Scales of fire occurrence; Further reading; Chapter 2: Fire in the fossil record: recognition; 2.1 Fire proxies: fire scars and charcoal; 2.2 The problem of nomenclature: black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon; 2.3 How we study charcoal: microscopical and chemical techniques; 2.4 Charcoal as an information-rich source; 2.5 Charcoal reflectance and temperature; 2.6 Uses of charcoal; 2.7 Fire intensity/severity; 2.8 Deep time studies 2.9 Pre-requisite for fire: fuel - the evolution of plants2.10 Charcoal in sedimentary systems; Further reading; Chapter 3: Fire in the fossil record: earth system processes; 3.1 Fire and oxygen; 3.2 Fire feedbacks; 3.3 Systems diagrams; 3.4 Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen; 3.5 Burning experiments - fire spread; 3.6 Fire and the terrestrial system; Further reading; Chapter 4: The geological history of fire in deep time: 420 million years to 2 million years ago; 4.1 Periods of high and low fire, and implications; 4.2 The first fires; 4.3 The rise of fire 4.4 Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world4.5 Collapse of fire systems; 4.6 Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary; 4.7 Jurassic variation; 4.8 Cretaceous fires; 4.9 Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary; 4.10 Paleocene fires; 4.11 Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM); 4.12 Dampening of fire systems; 4.13 Rise of the grass-fire cycle; Further reading; Chapter 5: The geological history of fire - the last two million years; 5.1 Problems of Quaternary fire history; 5.2 The Paleofire working group: techniques and analysis; 5.3 Fire and climate cycles 5.4 Fire and humans: the fossil evidence5.5 Fire and the industrial society; Further reading; References for part one; Part Two: Biology of fire; Preface to part two; Chapter 6 Pyrogeography - temporal and spatial patterns of fire; 6.1 Fire and life; 6.2 Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire; 6.3 Pyrogeography; 6.4 Fire and the control of biome boundaries; 6.5 The fire regime concept; 6.6 Fire ecology; 6.7 Conclusion; Further reading; Chapter 7: Plants and fire; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Fire and plant traits; 7.2.1 Post-burn recovery: vegetative re-growth and storage tissue 7.2.2 Post-burn recovery: seedling recruitment |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453737303321 |
Scott Andrew C
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| Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others]
| Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others] |
| Autore | Scott Andrew C |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 541.361 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fire - History
Fire ecology Fire management Forest fires Wildfires |
| ISBN |
1-119-95357-X
1-118-53409-3 1-118-57071-5 |
| Classificazione |
654.4
575.8 541/.361 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795952603321 |
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Scott Andrew C
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| Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others]
| Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others] |
| Autore | Scott Andrew C |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 541.361 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fire - History
Fire ecology Fire management Forest fires Wildfires |
| ISBN |
1-119-95357-X
1-118-53409-3 1-118-57071-5 |
| Classificazione |
654.4
575.8 541/.361 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821196403321 |
|
Scott Andrew C
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| Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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