The ecological importance of mixed-severity fires : nature's phoenix / edited by Dominick A. DellaSala, Chief Scientist, Geos Institute, Ashland, Oregon ; Chad T. Hanson, Ecologist, the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, Berkeley, California.
Biodiversity of mixed- and high-severity fires. Setting the stage for mixed- and high-severity fire -- Ecological and biodiversity benefits of megafires -- Using bird ecology to learn about the benefits of severe fire -- Mammals and mixed- and high-severity fire -- Stream-riparian ecosystems and mixed- and high-severity fire -- Bark beetles and high-severity fires in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests -- Global and regional perspectives on mixed- and high-severity fires. High-severity fires in chaparral: cognitive dissonance in the shrublands -- Regional case studies: Southeast Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada -- Climage change: uncertainties, shifting baselines, and fire management -- Carbon dynamics of mixed- and high-severity wildfires: pyrogenic CO2 emissions, postfire carbon balance, and succession -- Managing mixed- and high-severity fires. In the aftermath of fire: logging an drelated actions degrade mixed- and high-severity burn areas -- The rising costs of wildfire suppression and the case for ecological fire use -- Flight of the phoenix: coexisting with mixed-severity fires.
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