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1 online resource (436 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Fire on Earth: An Introduction -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- About the Companion Website -- Part One: Fire in the Earth System -- Preface to part one -- Chapter 1 What is fire? -- 1.1 How fire starts and initially spreads -- 1.2 Lightning and other ignition sources -- 1.3 The charring process -- 1.4 Pyrolysis products -- 1.4.1 Soot -- 1.4.2 Volatile gases and compounds -- 1.5 Fire types -- 1.6 Peat fires -- 1.7 Fire effects on soils -- 1.8 Post-fire erosion-deposition -- 1.9 Fire and vegetation -- 1.10 Fire and climate -- 1.11 Fire triangles |
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1.12 Fire return intervals -- 1.13 How we study fire: satellites -- 1.14 Modelling fire occurrence -- 1.15 Climate forcing -- 1.16 Scales of fire occurrence -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Fire in the fossil record: recognition -- 2.1 Fire proxies: fire scars and charcoal -- 2.2 The problem of nomenclature: black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon -- 2.3 How we study charcoal: microscopical and chemical techniques -- 2.4 Charcoal as an information-rich source -- 2.5 Charcoal reflectance and temperature -- 2.6 Uses of charcoal -- 2.7 Fire intensity/severity -- 2.8 Deep time studies |
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2.9 Pre-requisite for fire: fuel -- the evolution of plants -- 2.10 Charcoal in sedimentary systems -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Fire in the fossil record: earth system processes -- 3.1 Fire and oxygen -- 3.2 Fire feedbacks -- 3.3 Systems diagrams -- 3.4 Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen -- 3.5 Burning experiments -- fire spread -- 3.6 Fire and the terrestrial system -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: The geological history of fire in deep time: 420 million years to 2 million years ago -- 4.1 Periods of high and low fire, and implications -- 4.2 The first fires -- 4.3 The rise of fire |
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4.4 Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world -- 4.5 Collapse of fire systems -- 4.6 Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary -- 4.7 Jurassic variation -- 4.8 Cretaceous fires -- 4.9 Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary -- 4.10 Paleocene fires -- 4.11 Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) -- 4.12 Dampening of fire systems -- 4.13 Rise of the grass-fire cycle -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: The geological history of fire -- the last two million years -- 5.1 Problems of Quaternary fire history -- 5.2 The Paleofire working group: techniques and analysis |
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5.3 Fire and climate cycles -- 5.4 Fire and humans: the fossil evidence -- 5.5 Fire and the industrial society -- Further reading -- References for part one -- Part Two: Biology of fire -- Preface to part two -- Chapter 6 Pyrogeography -- temporal and spatial patterns of fire -- 6.1 Fire and life -- 6.2 Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire -- 6.3 Pyrogeography -- 6.4 Fire and the control of biome boundaries -- 6.5 The fire regime concept -- 6.6 Fire ecology -- 6.7 Conclusion -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Plants and fire -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Fire and plant traits |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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7.2.1 Post-burn recovery: vegetative re-growth and storage tissue |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118570715 |
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1118570715 |
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