Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.
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"...a rich summary of our current knowledge of several important aspects of forest fire science, from fuel dynamics to coupled atmosphere-fire modelling. ...The book's strength is as a state-of-the-art review of research on pyrolysis, flames, lightening, fuel-moisture dynamics, smoke, combustion chemistry, and more. ...My fire science students and colleagues use Forest Fires as a reference."
—Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Center, in NATURE (January 2002)
"...a primary strength of this book is that you can find a larger number of state-of-the-art fire behavior and combustion topics covered in a single source. ...the book is an unmitigated success...a very strong book that will benefit most scientists interested in fire, including ecologists. ...Overall, I compliment the editors and authors for a job well done."
--Marc D. Abrams, Pennsylvania State University, School of Forest Resources, in ECOLOGY (November 2001)
"This book is authoritative, well written and abundantly referenced. ...a valuable resource on all the topics covered and is likely to remain so for many years. ...It is a book that researchers in fire ecology should be aware of and have access to."
--John Ogden in ANNALS OF BOTANY (2001)
—Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Center, in NATURE (January 2002)
"...a primary strength of this book is that you can find a larger number of state-of-the-art fire behavior and combustion topics covered in a single source. ...the book is an unmitigated success...a very strong book that will benefit most scientists interested in fire, including ecologists. ...Overall, I compliment the editors and authors for a job well done."
--Marc D. Abrams, Pennsylvania State University, School of Forest Resources, in ECOLOGY (November 2001)
"This book is authoritative, well written and abundantly referenced. ...a valuable resource on all the topics covered and is likely to remain so for many years. ...It is a book that researchers in fire ecology should be aware of and have access to."
--John Ogden in ANNALS OF BOTANY (2001)
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Numerous plant communities depend on fire for generating species diversity in both time and space. Without fire, such ecosystems converge toward sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire-dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires.
Forest Fires focuses on the chemistry and physics of fire to educate how fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have prepared a didactic text/reference that should appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.
Forest Fires focuses on the chemistry and physics of fire to educate how fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have prepared a didactic text/reference that should appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.
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This is a book for someone who is SERIOUS about learning about wildfires. It is full of complex math formulas and many things that are beyond most readers. Read only if interested in highly technical data.
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Forest Fires: Behaviour and Ecological Effects,
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The book is aimed to bridge a gap between researcher and applied management. The covers a wide range of topics from fire combustion, to fuel moisture dynamics, the interaction between fire and its surrounding atmosphere, lightning ignition, fire effects and fire management. The chapters for each of these adequately deal with the topic, sometimes at a level which will beyond most people's ken. The book is missing a level of integration within and between chapters, which makes it difficult to appreciate the book's comprehensive nature. It would have been nice to have an overarching framework on fire behaviour and ecological effects to direct the writers of each chapter towards a central understanding of fires and their ecological effects. The book does cover fires and their effects in both northern and southern hemispheres. Some of the figures could have benefitted from being in colour.
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I recently discovered that this book is supposed to have COLOR picture plates in the center to illustrate the fire effects. The book I received from Amazon has black and white pictures. They have given no indication that they are selling a modified version of the book. The black and white picture are reasonable quality but in no way show what was intended with the color ones. Amazon charges the same price as versions with the color plates.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Go somewhere where you can verify that the picture plates in the center are supposed to be color.
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"Research on the connection between wildfires and ecological systems goes back to the early discovery that natural disturbances were a recurrent phenomenon in ecosystems and, as such, required an understanding of their effects on ecosystem structure and fun" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cambium necrosis, fire management agencies, solenoidal effect, extinguishment limit, fire management objectives, duff consumption, fire suppression resources, leeward vortices, smoldering zone, duff consumed, fire management organizations, initial attack resources, fire spread rate, ignition efficiency, duff moisture, upper air features, duff depth, leeward flame, forest floor fuels, fire protection planning, forest fire occurrence, quasi steady rate, diurnal dependence, critical residence times, fire management systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Service, New York, United States, Academic Press, North America, John Wiley, Research Paper, Rocky Mountains, Energy Combust, Pacific Northwest, Wood Buffalo, Cambridge University Press, Remote Sens, Annual Meeting, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, International Falls, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Society of American Foresters, Soil Sci, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Wood Sci, Division of Forestry, Intermountain Research Station, San Diego, American Meteorological Society New!
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"Research on the connection between wildfires and ecological systems goes back to the early discovery that natural disturbances were a recurrent phenomenon in ecosystems and, as such, required an understanding of their effects on ecosystem structure and fun" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cambium necrosis, fire management agencies, solenoidal effect, extinguishment limit, fire management objectives, duff consumption, fire suppression resources, leeward vortices, smoldering zone, duff consumed, fire management organizations, initial attack resources, fire spread rate, ignition efficiency, duff moisture, upper air features, duff depth, leeward flame, forest floor fuels, fire protection planning, forest fire occurrence, quasi steady rate, diurnal dependence, critical residence times, fire management systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Service, New York, United States, Academic Press, North America, John Wiley, Research Paper, Rocky Mountains, Energy Combust, Pacific Northwest, Wood Buffalo, Cambridge University Press, Remote Sens, Annual Meeting, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, International Falls, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Society of American Foresters, Soil Sci, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Wood Sci, Division of Forestry, Intermountain Research Station, San Diego, American Meteorological Society New!
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- Combustion Fundamentals of Fire (Combustion Treatise) by G. Cox on page 52, page 418, and page 478
- Textbook of Wood Technology: Structure, Identification, Properties, and Uses of the Commercial Woods of the United States and Canada (McGraw-Hill series in forest resources) (v. 1) by A.J. Panshin on page 89, page 143, and page 147
- Conference on Bushfire Modeling and Fire Danger Rating Systems: Proceedings by N.P. Cheney on page 254, and page 526
- Heat and Mass Transfer in the Biosphere. I: Transfer Processes in Plant Environment. (Advances in Thermal Engineering) (Pt. 1) by D.A.De Vries on page 145, and page 146
- Fire in the Tropical Biota: Ecosystem Processes and Global Challenges (Ecological Studies) by Symposium on Fire Ecology 1989 (Freiburg University) on page 167
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