Fire phenomena and the earth system : an interdisciplinary guide to fire science /

• Other Authors: Belcher, Claire M.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chicester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Subjects: Wildfires > Environmental aspects.; Forest fires > Environmental aspects.; Environmental geology.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.; Brand.; Feuerökologie; Umweltgeologie; Waldbrand; Electronic books.; Llibres electrònics.

Fire plays a key role in Earth system processes. Wildfires influence the carbon cycle and the nutrient balance of our planet, and may even play a role in regulating the oxygen content of our atmosphere. The evolutionary history of plants has been intimately tied to fire and this in part explains the...

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to combustion in organic materials
• Smouldering fires in natural fuels
• Experimental understanding of wildland fires
• Wildland fire behaviour and danger ratings
• Satellite remote sensing of wildfires
• Understanding the ecological impacts of fires
• Plant adaptations to fire an evolutionary perspective
• Fire and the land surface
• Black carbon in soils and sediments
• Identifying past fire events
• A 21,000 year history of fire
• A 450 million year history of fire
• The atmospheric impact of wildfires
• Experiments on atmospheric oxygen and fire
• Fire feedbacks on atmospheric oxygen
• Biochar and carbon sequestration.