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Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 39
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This edited volume presents original scientific research and
knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential
future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for
forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors
highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well
as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire
frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and
regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal
communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire
management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable
development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An
introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in
frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire
across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in
relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources
(lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by
respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types
within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal
fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest
composition and structure. The regional chapters also include
discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and
anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current
fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression
and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem
integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The
summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a
synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the
future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible
information for the conservation community, land managers,
scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how
fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among
ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest
management today and in the future.
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