Overview
- Unites and places equal weight on the aspects of fire ecology and forest management
- Bridges the gap on how physiological ecology can inform management with regards to forest fires
- Useful to a broad audience like students, disturbance ecologists and forest managers and aims to accomplish this by providing information for all these different levels
Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 36)
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This innovation in this study lies in its focus on the physiological responses of plants that are of relevance for predicting forest fire risk, behaviour and management. It covers the evolutionary trade-offs in the resistance of plants to fire and drought, and its implications for predicting fuel moisture and fire risk; the importance of floristics and plant traits, in interaction with landform and atmospheric conditions, to successfully predict fire behaviour, and provides recommendations for pre- and post- fire management, in relation with the functional composition of the community. The book will be particularly focused on examples from Mediterranean environments, but the underlying principles will be of broader utility.
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Book Title: Plant-Fire Interactions
Book Subtitle: Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management
Authors: Víctor Resco de Dios
Series Title: Managing Forest Ecosystems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41192-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41191-6Published: 18 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41194-7Published: 18 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41192-3Published: 17 March 2020
Series ISSN: 1568-1319
Series E-ISSN: 2352-3956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry Management, Natural Hazards, Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Biogeosciences