Fire on Earth An Introduction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scott, Andrew C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fire on Earth: An Introduction
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Authors
  • About the Companion Website
  • Part One: Fire in the Earth System
  • Preface to part one
  • Chapter 1 What is fire?
  • 1.1 How fire starts and initially spreads
  • 1.2 Lightning and other ignition sources
  • 1.3 The charring process
  • 1.4 Pyrolysis products
  • 1.4.1 Soot
  • 1.4.2 Volatile gases and compounds
  • 1.5 Fire types
  • 1.6 Peat fires
  • 1.7 Fire effects on soils
  • 1.8 Post-fire erosion-deposition
  • 1.9 Fire and vegetation
  • 1.10 Fire and climate
  • 1.11 Fire triangles
  • 1.12 Fire return intervals
  • 1.13 How we study fire: satellites
  • 1.14 Modelling fire occurrence
  • 1.15 Climate forcing
  • 1.16 Scales of fire occurrence
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2: Fire in the fossil record: recognition
  • 2.1 Fire proxies: fire scars and charcoal
  • 2.2 The problem of nomenclature: black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon
  • 2.3 How we study charcoal: microscopical and chemical techniques
  • 2.4 Charcoal as an information-rich source
  • 2.5 Charcoal reflectance and temperature
  • 2.6 Uses of charcoal
  • 2.7 Fire intensity/severity
  • 2.8 Deep time studies
  • 2.9 Pre-requisite for fire: fuel
  • the evolution of plants
  • 2.10 Charcoal in sedimentary systems
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 3: Fire in the fossil record: earth system processes
  • 3.1 Fire and oxygen
  • 3.2 Fire feedbacks
  • 3.3 Systems diagrams
  • 3.4 Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen
  • 3.5 Burning experiments
  • fire spread
  • 3.6 Fire and the terrestrial system
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 4: The geological history of fire in deep time: 420 million years to 2 million years ago
  • 4.1 Periods of high and low fire, and implications
  • 4.2 The first fires
  • 4.3 The rise of fire
  • 4.4 Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world
  • 4.5 Collapse of fire systems
  • 4.6 Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
  • 4.7 Jurassic variation
  • 4.8 Cretaceous fires
  • 4.9 Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary
  • 4.10 Paleocene fires
  • 4.11 Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)
  • 4.12 Dampening of fire systems
  • 4.13 Rise of the grass-fire cycle
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 5: The geological history of fire
  • the last two million years
  • 5.1 Problems of Quaternary fire history
  • 5.2 The Paleofire working group: techniques and analysis
  • 5.3 Fire and climate cycles
  • 5.4 Fire and humans: the fossil evidence
  • 5.5 Fire and the industrial society
  • Further reading
  • References for part one
  • Part Two: Biology of fire
  • Preface to part two
  • Chapter 6 Pyrogeography
  • temporal and spatial patterns of fire
  • 6.1 Fire and life
  • 6.2 Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire
  • 6.3 Pyrogeography
  • 6.4 Fire and the control of biome boundaries
  • 6.5 The fire regime concept
  • 6.6 Fire ecology
  • 6.7 Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 7: Plants and fire
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Fire and plant traits

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