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Plant-Fire Interactions

Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management

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Authors:
  1. Víctor Resco de Dios

    1. School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China, Crop and Forest Sciences and JRU CTFC-AGROTECNIO, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 36)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-13

  3. Fire Regimes Across Space

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    Pages 15-29

  4. Fire as an Earth System Process

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    Pages 31-51

  5. The Evolution of Physiological Adaptations in a Flammable Planet

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    Pages 53-73

  6. Environmental Plant Responses and Wildland Fire Danger

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    Pages 75-92

  7. Plant Carbon Economies and the Dynamics of Wildland Fuels

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    Pages 93-115

  8. Effects of Fire on Plant Performance

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    Pages 117-132

  9. Forest Succession, Alternative States, and Fire-Vegetation Feedbacks

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    Pages 133-153

  10. Pyrophysiology and Wildfire Management

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    Pages 155-175

  11. Global Change, Pyrophysiology, and Wildfires

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    Pages 177-197

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-208
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China, Crop and Forest Sciences and JRU CTFC-AGROTECNIO, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain

    Víctor Resco de Dios

About the author

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.

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