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  title info:
    title: Tropical Fire Ecology
    sub title: Climate Change, Land Use, and Ecosystem Dynamics
  name:
    name part: Cochrane, Mark A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXVIII, 682 p. 130 illus., 50 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.
  table of contents: Fire in the tropics -- Fire in the tropics -- Fire and fire ecology: Concepts and principles -- Fire and fire ecology: Concepts and principles -- Global overview of fire in the tropics -- Overview: Global fire regime conditions, threats, and opportunities for fire management in the tropics -- Fire in the Australian tropics -- Fire-driven land cover change in Australia and W.D. Jackson’s theory of the fire ecology of southwest Tasmania -- Fires in Australia’s tropical savannas: Interactions with biodiversity, global warming, and exotic biota -- Aboriginal fire use in Australian tropical savannas: Ecological effects and management lessons -- Fire in the African tropics -- Fire ecology and fire politics in Mali and Madagascar -- Climate change and wildland fires in Mozambique -- Fire in the Asian tropics -- Tropical peatland fires in Southeast Asia -- Fire ecology and management of seasonal evergreen forests in mainland Southeast Asia -- Fire behavior and fire effects across the forest landscape of continental Southeast Asia -- Forest fire regimes and their ecological effects in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems in the Western Ghats, India -- Fire and land use effects on biodiversity in the southern Sumatran wetlands -- Fire in the South American tropics -- Fire, land use, land cover dynamics, and climate change in the Brazilian Amazon -- Fires in the cerrado, the Brazilian savanna -- The role of fire in the vegetation dynamics of upland savannas of the Venezuelan Guayana -- Pattern and process: Fire-initiated grass invasion at Amazon transitional forest edges -- Fire in the Central American tropics -- Fire in the páramo ecosystems of Central and South America -- Pan-tropical fire -- The consequences of fire for the fauna of humid tropical forests -- Fire in tropical pine ecosystems -- Changing fire regimes in tropical montane cloud forests: a global synthesis.
  note: by Mark A. Cochrane.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9783540773818
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77381-8
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