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Flammable Australia : fire regimes, biodiversity and ecosystems in a changing world /

Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: CSIRO (Australia)
Otros Autores: Bradstock, R. A. (Ross Andrew), Williams, R. J. (Richard James), Gill, A. M. (Arthur Malcolm)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • 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 Australia
  • Ecosystems
  • 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 management
  • 15 Future fire regimes of Australian ecosystems: new perspectives on enduring questions of management
  • Index.