{"product_id":"fire-on-earth-9781119953579","title":"Fire on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth is the only planet known to have fire.   The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life   s history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe well-organized and illustrated work can be used as a textbook or a reference source for practitioners. Each chapter has a list of further readings, and each part has its own extensive bibliography. This phenomenal contribution will become a classic reference for five mangers, students of fire ecology and climate, and researchers for years to come. \u003cb\u003eSumming Up: Essential.\u003c\/b\u003e All levels\/libraries.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Overall, the book provides an excellent, multidisciplinary introduction to fire, authored by leading experts in their fields, written in a very accessible style and supported by superb illustrations and extensive references. Hence, I highly recommend it to potential readers, who may be upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, teaching staff and everyone working, or simply interested, in the area of environmental science.\" (\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Wildland Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 August 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Fire and earth scientists, anthropologists, ecol­ogists, resource managers, and especially ad­vanced students in natural sciences will find the text, along with its online resources, a req­uisite addition to their libraries. Not only is it a pleasure to read, simply put, it sparks the imagination.\" (\u003ci\u003eFire Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 June 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With wildfire recognised in key government contingency documents, not least for climate change, foresters looking for greater understanding of this future challenge over the coming decades, should look no further.\" (\u003ci\u003eChartered Forester\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a good example of a multidisciplinary investigation. The writers express the wish that it may stimulate further research into fire processes, both 'natural' and induced by humanity. A book worth reading!.\" (\u003ci\u003eGeological Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 29 April 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Each part has an extensive reference list reflecting the worldwide significance of wildfire and varied scientific approaches: tables, diagrams and colour photographs are abundant, and there is a welcome companion website with a host of useful teaching\/demonstration material.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Biologist 2016\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFire on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e would serve as an outstanding basis for a graduate course in fire science and management. It is also a valuable reference that has a place on the bookshelf of any instructor, scientist, or land manager whose work involves the role of fire in terrestrial ecosystems and human civilization.\" (The \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Review of Biology 2016\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Companion Website xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to part one 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 What is fire? 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 How fire starts and initially spreads 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Lightning and other ignition sources 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 The charring process 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Pyrolysis products 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Fire types 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Peat fires 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Fire effects on soils 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Post-fire erosion-deposition 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 Fire and vegetation 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.10 Fire and climate 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.11 Fire triangles 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.12 Fire return intervals 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.13 How we study fire: satellites 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.14 Modelling fire occurrence 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.15 Climate forcing 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.16 Scales of fire occurrence 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Fire in the fossil record: recognition 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Fire proxies: fire scars and charcoal 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The problem of nomenclature: black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 How we study charcoal: microscopical and chemical techniques 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Charcoal as an information-rich source 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Charcoal reflectance and temperature 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Uses of charcoal 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Fire intensity\/severity 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Deep time studies 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Pre-requisite for fire: fuel – the evolution of plants 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.10 Charcoal in sedimentary systems 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Fire in the fossil record: earth system processes 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Fire and oxygen 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Fire feedbacks 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Systems diagrams 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Burning experiments – fire spread 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Fire and the terrestrial system 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 The geological history of fire in deep time: 420 million years to 2 million years ago 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Periods of high and low fire, and implications 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 The first fires 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The rise of fire 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Collapse of fire systems 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Jurassic variation 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Cretaceous fires 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 Paleocene fires 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.12 Dampening of fire systems 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.13 Rise of the grass-fire cycle 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 The geological history of fire – the last two million years 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Problems of Quaternary fire history 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 The Paleofire working group: techniques and analysis 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Fire and climate cycles 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Fire and humans: the fossil evidence 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Fire and the industrial society 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences for part one 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO BIOLOGY OF FIRE 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to part two 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Pyrogeography – temporal and spatial patterns of fire 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Fire and life 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Pyrogeography 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Fire and the control of biome boundaries 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 The fire regime concept 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Fire ecology 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Conclusion 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Plants and fire 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Fire and plant traits 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Fire regimes and the characteristic suite of fire plant traits 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Evolution of fire traits 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Summary and implications 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral reading 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Fire and fauna 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Direct effects of fire on fauna 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 The effect of fire regimes on fauna 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 The landscape mosaic and pyrodiversity 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 The effect of fauna on fire regimes 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Fire and the evolution of fauna 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Summary 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 Fire as an ecosystem process 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Fire and erosion 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Fire and nutrient cycling 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Fire and pedogenesis 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Fire and atmospheric chemistry 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Fire and climate 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Summary 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 Fire and anthropogenic environmental change 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Prehistoric impacts 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Prehistoric fire management 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Contemporary fire management 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Climate change 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Fire and carbon management 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 Fire regime switches: a major challenge for fire ecology 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 Invasive plants and altered fire regimes 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.9 Conclusion 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences for part two 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE ANTHROPOGENIC FIRE 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to part three 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Fire creature 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Early hominins: spark of creation 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Aboriginal fire: control over ignition 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Cultivated fire: control over combustibles 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Ideas and institutions: lore and ritual 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Narrative arcs (and equants) 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 A new epoch of fire: the anthropocene 231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 The Great Disruption 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 The pyric transition 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Enlightenment and empire 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Scaling the transition 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 After the revolution 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13 Fire management 259\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.1 Introducing integrated fire management 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.2 Two realms: managing the pyric transition 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.3 Strategies 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.4 Institutions: ordering fire 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.5 Ideas: conceptions of fire 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.6 Fire management: selected examples 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and further reading for part three 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR THE SCIENCE AND ART OF WILDLAND FIRE BEHAVIOUR PREDICTION 295\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to part four 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14 Fundamentals of wildland fire as a physical process 297\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.1 Introduction 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.2 The basics of combustion and heat transfer 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.3 The wildland fire environment concept 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.4 Characterization of wildland fire behaviour 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.5 Extreme wildland fire behaviour phenomena 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.6 Field methods of measuring and quantifying wildland fire behaviour 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.7 Towards increasing our understanding of wildland fire behaviour 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15 Estimating free-burning wildland fire behaviour 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.1 Introduction 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.2 A historical sketch of wildland fire behaviour research 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.3 Models, systems and guides for predicting wildland fire behaviour 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.4 Limitations on the accuracy of model predictions of wildland fire behaviour 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.5 The wildland fire behaviour prediction process 363\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.6 Specialized support in assessing wildland fire behaviour 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.7 Looking ahead 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16 Fire management applications of wildland fire behaviour knowledge 373\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.1 Introduction 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.2 Wildfire suppression 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.3 Wildland firefighter safety 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.4 Community wildland fire protection 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.5 Fuels management 383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.6 Prediction of fire effects 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.7 Getting on the road towards self-improvement 389\u003c\/p\u003e 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