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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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Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others]
| Fire on earth : an introduction / / Andrew C. Scott [and four others] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley Blackwell, 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 |
| 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: satellites -- 1.14 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 plants -- 2.10 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 world -- 4.5 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 evidence -- 5.5 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 -- 7.3 Fire regimes and the characteristic suite of fire plant traits -- 7.3.1 Determinants of fire regime -- 7.3.2 Flammability -- 7.4 Evolution of fire traits -- 7.4.1 Fire survival traits -- 7.4.2 Fire-stimulated reproduction -- 7.4.3 The evolution of flammability -- 7.5 Summary and implications -- Further reading -- General reading -- Chapter 8: Fire and fauna -- 8.1 Direct effects of fire on fauna -- 8.2 The effect of fire regimes on fauna -- 8.3 The landscape mosaic and pyrodiversity -- 8.4 The effect of fauna on fire regimes -- 8.5 Fire and the evolution of fauna -- 8.6 Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Fire as an ecosystem process. 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Fire and erosion -- 9.3 Fire and nutrient cycling -- 9.4 Fire and pedogenesis -- 9.5 Fire and atmospheric chemistry -- 9.6 Fire and climate -- 9.7 Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Fire and anthropogenic environmental change -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Prehistoric impacts -- 10.3 Prehistoric fire management -- 10.4 Contemporary fire management -- 10.5 Climate change -- 10.6 Fire and carbon management -- 10.7 Fire regime switches: a major challenge for fire ecology -- 10.8 Invasive plants and altered fire regimes -- 10.9 Conclusion -- Further reading -- References for part two -- Part Three: Anthropogenic fire -- Preface to part three -- Chapter 11: Fire creature -- 11.1 Early hominins: spark of creation -- 11.1.1 Cooking as pyrotechnology -- 11.1.2 Pyric paradigm, from hearth to habitat -- 11.2 Aboriginal fire: control over ignition -- 11.2.1 Principles and patterns -- 11.2.2 Principles and practices -- 11.2.3 By the numbers -- 11.2.4 The firestick in action: selected examples -- 11.3 Cultivated fire: control over combustibles -- 11.3.1 Fire-fallow farming -- 11.3.2 Fire-fallow farming: selected examples -- 11.3.3 Fire-forage pastoralism -- 11.3.4 Agro-economies of mixed fire: selected examples -- 11.4 Ideas and institutions: lore and ritual -- 11.5 Narrative arcs (and equants) -- 11.5.1 Frontier narratives -- 11.5.2 Grand or long-wave narratives -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: A new epoch of fire: the anthropocene -- 12.1 The Great Disruption -- 12.2 The pyric transition -- 12.2.1 The mechanisms of regime change -- 12.2.2 Combustion's new fire regimes -- 12.2.3 Fire's industrial revolution -- 12.3 Enlightenment and empire -- 12.3.1 Enlightenment fire -- 12.3.2 Imperial fire -- 12.4 Scaling the transition -- 12.4.1 Global -- 12.4.2 Subcontinental -- 12.4.3 National -- 12.5 After the revolution. 12.5.1 Trends in pyrotechnology -- 12.5.2 Trends in pyrogeography: selected examples -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Fire management -- 13.1 Introducing integrated fire management -- 13.2 Two realms: managing the pyric transition -- 13.2.1 Amid the transition -- 13.2.2 After the transition -- 13.3 Strategies -- 13.3.1 Strategy 1: leave to nature -- 13.3.2 Strategy 2: replace wild fire with tame fire -- 13.3.3 Strategy 3: change the combustibility of the land -- 13.3.4 Strategy 4: suppress -- 13.4 Institutions: ordering fire -- 13.4.1 Fire management operations -- 13.4.2 Fire research -- 13.5 Ideas: conceptions of fire -- 13.5.1 The models as world views -- 13.5.2 The models as management -- 13.6 Fire management: selected examples -- 13.6.1 Banff National Park, Canada -- 13.6.2 Kruger National Park, South Africa -- 13.6.3 La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve, Mexico -- 13.6.4 West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Project, Australia -- 13.6.5 Västernorrland County, Sweden -- Further reading -- References and further reading for part three -- Part Four: The Science and Art of Wildland Fire Behaviour Prediction -- Preface to part four -- Chapter 14: Fundamentals of wildland fire as a physical process -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The basics of combustion and heat transfer -- 14.2.1 Combustion chemistry -- 14.2.2 Combustion phases -- 14.2.3 Parts of a spreading fire -- 14.2.4 Principles of heat transfer and fire spread -- 14.3 The wildland fire environment concept -- 14.3.1 Fire weather and climate -- 14.3.2 Fuels -- 14.3.3 Topography -- 14.3.4 Variations and interactions -- 14.3.5 Methods of monitoring and assessment -- 14.4 Characterization of wildland fire behaviour -- 14.4.1 Types of wildland fires -- 14.4.2 Point and line source fire growth following ignition -- 14.4.3 Rate of fire spread -- 14.4.4 Fire shape and size -- 14.4.5 Fuel consumption. 14.4.6 Flame front dimensions and characteristics -- 14.4.7 Fireline intensity -- 14.4.8 Crown fire initiation and propagation -- 14.4.9 Fire impact zones -- 14.5 Extreme wildland fire behaviour phenomena -- 14.5.1 Continuous crowning -- 14.5.2 Extremely fast rates of fire spread -- 14.5.3 High fireline intensities and large flames -- 14.5.4 Prolific spotting -- 14.5.5 Presence of large fire whirls and other vortices -- 14.5.6 Well-established convection column -- 14.6 Field methods of measuring and quantifying wildland fire behaviour -- 14.7 Towards increasing our understanding of wildland fire behaviour -- Further reading -- Chapter 15: Estimating free-burning wildland fire behaviour -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 A historical sketch of wildland fire behaviour research -- 15.2.1 Experimental fire behaviour field studies -- 15.2.2 Laboratory test fires -- 15.2.3 Wildfire monitoring and case studies -- 15.2.4 Operational prescribed fires -- 15.2.5 Individual fire report data -- 15.3 Models, systems and guides for predicting wildland fire behaviour -- 15.3.1 The formative years -- 15.3.2 Forms of decision aids and field guides -- 15.3.3 Types of fire behaviour models -- 15.3.4 The two solitudes in wildland fire behaviour research -- 15.3.5 Current operational fire danger rating and fire behaviour modelling systems -- 15.4 Limitations on the accuracy of model predictions of wildland fire behaviour -- 15.4.1 Three sources of error -- 15.5 The wildland fire behaviour prediction process -- 15.5.1 Assumptions -- 15.5.2 General procedures -- 15.5.3 Means of dealing with uncertainty -- 15.5.4 Gauging the potential for extreme fire behaviour -- 15.6 Specialized support in assessing wildland fire behaviour -- 15.7 Looking ahead -- Further reading -- Chapter 16: Fire management applications of wildland fire behaviour knowledge -- 16.1 Introduction. 16.2 Wildfire suppression. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821196403321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley Blackwell, 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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