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Tropical Fire Ecology - Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics (Hardcover, 2009 ed.) Loot Price: R8,935
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Tropical Fire Ecology - Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Mark Cochrane

Tropical Fire Ecology - Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

Mark Cochrane

Series: Environmental Sciences

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Fire Ecology of Tropical Ecosystems gives an extensive explanation of historic and current fire situations in the tropics, describing the fire ecology of tropical ecosystems from around the globe. Eighteen groups of leading researchers explain the many different aspects and roles of fire in tropical ecosystems. Regional chapters address a set of common subjects including the causes of fire, typical fire behavior, and elements of the fire regime. In addition, they study the impacts of human land use, landscape fragmentation and climate change on the fire environment and the challenges of fire management in these ecosystems. The common set of topics provides consistency among the chapters and facilitates comprehensive understanding of fire s place in tropical ecology. This cohesive book covers unique aspects of fire in each ecosystem and includes a discussion of common elements to enable comparisons and syntheses of fire effects in disparate tropical ecosystems. Current scientific literature is too fragmented: it hampers the understanding of tropical fire ecology and degrades all global studies of land cover change and global carbon emissions. Fire

Ecology of Tropical Ecosystems fills a large void in our current understanding of how fire affects terrestrial biota.

The book opens with a general explanation of fire in the tropics, giving the examples of Oazaca, Mexico in 1998 and Roraima, Brazil in 1997-1998. It follows with the concepts and principles of wildland fire, including heat transfer, fire behavior, fuels, weather and climate.

Chapters 3-19 cover the implications of fire in Asia, Africa, Australia, Central and South America, Pacifica and Pantropical, addressing the causes, fire behavior, severity, fire and land use, fire and landscapes (fragmentation and connectivity), fire, climate and climate change, fire regimes (why frequency matters), issues for fire management and regional issues of specific importance or interest. An overview at the end of the book considers the global fire regime conditions, threats, and opportunities for fire management in the tropics."

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Environmental Sciences
Release date: April 2009
First published: April 2009
Authors: Mark Cochrane
Dimensions: 242 x 170 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 682
Edition: 2009 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-77380-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Forests, rainforests
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LSN: 3-540-77380-0
Barcode: 9783540773801

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