The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on fire prevention and suppression, little has been reported on the ecological role of fire, and nothing has been presented on the importance of high-severity fire with regards to the maintenance of native biodiversity and fire-dependent ecosystems and species. This text fills that void, providing a comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's ecological role.

The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix

Science & Math

Hanson, Chad

DellaSala, Dominick A.

Biological Sciences

Elsevier

Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix, Second Edition focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book describes the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as nature's phoenix by drawing from examples of wildfire effects. In addition, the book describes 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.

Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix

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The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix

Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix