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Title:
Fire phenomena and the Earth system : an interdisciplinary guide to fire science / edited by Claire M. Belcher.
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Subject:
Wildfires--Environmental aspects.
Forest fires--Environmental aspects.
Environmental geology.
Brand.
Waldbrand.
Feuerökologie.
Umweltgeologie.
Other Authors:
Belcher, Claire M., editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An introduction to combustion in organic materials -- Smouldering fires in natural fuels -- Experimental understanding of wildland fires -- Wildland fire behaviour and danger ratings -- Satellite remote sensing of wildfires -- Understanding the ecological impacts of fires -- Plant adaptations to fire an evolutionary perspective -- Fire and the land surface -- Black carbon in soils and sediments -- Identifying past fire events -- A 21,000 year history of fire -- A 450 million year history of fire -- The atmospheric impact of wildfires -- Experiments on atmospheric oxygen and fire -- Fire feedbacks on atmospheric oxygen -- Biochar and carbon sequestration.
ISBN:
0470657480 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780470657485 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)824536037
LCCN:
2013001793
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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