Tropical fire ecology: climate change, land use, and ecosystem dynamics /
The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is n...
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Springer, Praxis Publishing Ltd,
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Table of Contents:
- Fire in the tropics
- Fire and fire ecology: concepts and principles
- pt. 1: Global overview of fire in the tropics. Overview: Global fire regime conditions, threats, and opportunities for fire management in the tropics
- pt. 2: 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
- pt. 3: Fire in the African tropics. Fire ecology and fire politics in Mali and Madagascar
- Climate change and wildland fires in Mozambique
- pt. 4: 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
- pt. 5: 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
- pt. 6: Fire in the Central American tropics. Fire in the páramo ecosystems of Central and South America
- pt. 7: 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