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- English
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About this book
The second edition of 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 will describe the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as "nature's phoenix" by drawing from examples of wildfire effects in several regions of the world.In addition, the book will describe 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. This second edition of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix provides a comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's ecological role.
- Comprehensive and complete reference on wildfire ecology that includes the latest science and citations
- Debunks debates on wildfire management that can be used by conservation groups and decision-makers to shift egregious wildfire policies
- Contains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires, covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions
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Table of contents
- Mixed Severity Fires
- Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for Mixed- and High-Severity Fire
- Chapter 2 Ecosystem Benefits of Megafires
- Chapter 3 Using Bird Ecology to Learn About the Benefits of Severe Fire
- Chapter 4 Mammals and Mixed- and High-Severity Fire
- Chapter 5 Bark Beetles and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests
- Chapter 6 High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands
- Chapter 7 Regional Case Studies: Southeast Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
- Chapter 8 What’s Driving the Recent Increases in Wildfires?
- Chapter 9 Postfire Logging Disrupts Nature's Phoenix
- Chapter 10 Forest Managers Play the Backcountry Logging Fiddle as Towns Burn down
- Chapter 11 Misinformation About Historical and Contemporary Forests Leads to Policy Failures: A Critical Assessment of the “Overgrown Forests” Narrative
- Chapter 12 Out of the Ashes, Nature's Phoenix Rises
- Index
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