Flammable Australia fire regimes, biodiversity and ecosystems in a changing world / Ross A. Bradstock, A Malcolm Gill, Richard J Williams.

• Cover; Contents; Preface; List of reviewers; List of contributors; Evolution and prehistory; 1 The prehistory of fire in Australasia; 2 Fire regimes and the evolution of the Australian biota; Processes; 3 Fuel, fire weather and fire behaviour in Australian ecosystems; 4 Measuring and monitoring of contemporary fire regimes in Australia using satellite remote sensing; 5 Functional traits: their roles in understanding and predicting biotic responses to fire regimes from individuals to landscapes; 6 Fire regimes and soil-based ecological processes: implications for biodiversity. 
• 7 Global change and fire regimes in AustraliaEcosystems; 8 Fire regimes in Australian tropical savanna: perspectives, paradigms and paradoxes; 9 Fire regimes in arid hummock grasslands and Acacia shrublands; 10 Fire regimes in Australian sclerophyllous shrubby ecosystems: heathlands, heathy woodlands and mallee woodlands; 11 Bushfires and biodiversity in southern Australian forests; 12 How do fire regimes affect ecosystem structure, function and diversity in grasslands and grassy woodlands of southern Australia?; New challenges; 13 Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation. 
• 14 A revolution in northern Australian fire management: recognition of Indigenous knowledge, practice and management15 Future fire regimes of Australian ecosystems: new perspectives on enduring questions of management; Index. 

Ämnesord

Fire ecology -- Australia. 

Forest fires -- Environmental aspects -- Australia. 

Rain forest ecology -- Australia. 

Genre

Electronic books 

Publikations- och innehållstyp

333.720994 (DDC)

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