Plant-Fire Interactions
Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management
Authors: Resco de Dios, Víctor
Free Preview- Unites and places equal weight on the aspects of fire ecology and forest management
- Bridges the gap on how physiological ecology can inform management with regards to forest fires
- Useful to a broad audience like students, disturbance ecologists and forest managers and aims to accomplish this by providing information for all these different levels
Buy this book
- About this book
-
This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional and evolutionary consequences of fire in ecosystems, with foresters and fire managers, interested in effectively reducing fire hazard and damage.
This innovation in this study lies in its focus on the physiological responses of plants that are of relevance for predicting forest fire risk, behaviour and management. It covers the evolutionary trade-offs in the resistance of plants to fire and drought, and its implications for predicting fuel moisture and fire risk; the importance of floristics and plant traits, in interaction with landform and atmospheric conditions, to successfully predict fire behaviour, and provides recommendations for pre- and post- fire management, in relation with the functional composition of the community. The book will be particularly focused on examples from Mediterranean environments, but the underlying principles will be of broader utility. - About the authors
-
The author works as a Professor at the School of Life Sciences and Engineering at Southwest University for Science and Technology and a Research Scientist at the Joint Research Unit CTFC-Agrotecnio and University of Lleida.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
-
Introduction
Pages 1-13
-
Fire Regimes Across Space
Pages 15-29
-
Fire as an Earth System Process
Pages 31-51
-
The Evolution of Physiological Adaptations in a Flammable Planet
Pages 53-73
-
Environmental Plant Responses and Wildland Fire Danger
Pages 75-92
-
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Recommended for you
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Book Title
- Plant-Fire Interactions
- Book Subtitle
- Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management
- Authors
-
- Víctor Resco de Dios
- Series Title
- Managing Forest Ecosystems
- Series Volume
- 36
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-41192-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-41192-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-41191-6
- Series ISSN
- 1568-1319
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 208
- Number of Illustrations
- 23 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
- Topics
