Tropical Fire Ecology : Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cochrane, Mark. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Environmental Sciences
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77381-8
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.