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The Landscape Ecology of Fire

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Donald McKenzie

    1. Pacific Wildlife Fire Sciences Laborator, US Forest Service, Seattle, USA

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  2. Carol Miller

    1. Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institu, US Forest Service, Misoula, USA

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  3. Donald A. Falk

    1. School of Natural Resources and the Envi, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA

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  • Features new theoretical ideas, new syntheses, and a broad sampling of field landscape ecology
  • Focus on applications of theoretical concepts in landscape and fire ecology
  • Covering policy and management implications of increased fire disturbance
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 213)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Concepts and Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Toward a Theory of Landscape Fire

      • Donald McKenzie, Carol Miller, Donald A. Falk
      Pages 3-25

    3. Scaling Laws and Complexity in Fire Regimes

      • Donald McKenzie, Maureen C. Kennedy
      Pages 27-49

    4. Native Fire Regimes and Landscape Resilience

      • Max A. Moritz, Paul F. Hessburg, Nicholas A. Povak
      Pages 51-86

  4. Landscape Fire Dynamics and Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Pyrogeography and Biogeochemical Resilience

      • Erica A. H. Smithwick
      Pages 143-163

    3. Reconstructing Landscape Pattern of Historical Fires and Fire Regimes

      • Tyson Swetnam, Donald A. Falk, Amy E. Hessl, Calvin Farris
      Pages 165-192

    4. Fire and Invasive Plants on California Landscapes

      • Jon E. Keeley, Janet Franklin, Carla D’Antonio
      Pages 193-221

    5. Modeling Landscape Fire and Wildlife Habitat

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Tzeidle N. Wasserman, Kevin McGarigal
      Pages 223-245

  5. Landscape Fire Management, Policy, and Research in an Era of Global Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. Managing and Adapting to Changing Fire Regimes in a Warmer Climate

      • David L. Peterson, Jessica E. Halofsky, Morris C. Johnson
      Pages 249-267

    3. Wilderness Fire Management in a Changing Environment

      • Carol Miller, John Abatzoglou, Timothy Brown, Alexandra D. Syphard
      Pages 269-294

    4. Synthesis: Landscape Ecology and Changing Fire Regimes

      • Donald McKenzie, Carol Miller, Donald A. Falk
      Pages 295-303

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312
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Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts can we accurately assess these effects? We explore the possible effects of altered fire regimes on landscape patch dynamics, dominant species (tree, shrub, or herbaceous) and succession, sensitive and invasive plant and animal species and communities, and ecosystem function. Ultimately, we must consider the human dimension: what are the policy and management implications of increased fire disturbance, and what are the implications for human communities?

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From the reviews:

“This work represents the state of the art in North American landscape fire ecology. Integrating geospatial technologies with landscape ecology, the book presents the advanced student, practitioner, or researcher of fire management, landscape ecology, and climate change with conceptual frameworks, theory, and examples of data-driven analyses in multiple regions. … Valuable as a reference for land managers of fire-dependent ecosystems, and as a point of departure for graduate research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional readership.” (E. J. Delaney, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011)

“This volume addresses several emerging ideas regarding the landscape ecology of fire, consisting of 12 collected chapters. … it aims to advance certain emerging subfields and theories that are less covered in other publications. In this way much of the work is quite interesting and useful … . this volume complements other fireecology works well and ultimately achieves its objective of advancing thought on some promising new landscape disturbance theories and key contemporary topics.” (Daniel C. Donato, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 88 (1), March, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pacific Wildlife Fire Sciences Laborator, US Forest Service, Seattle, USA

    Donald McKenzie

  • Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institu, US Forest Service, Misoula, USA

    Carol Miller

  • School of Natural Resources and the Envi, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA

    Donald A. Falk

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