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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