Mixed Severity Fires
Nature’s Phoenix
by Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad Hanson
2nd Edition
Publisher: Elsevier
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780443137907 |
| eText ISBN | 9780443137914 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Publishing Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 450 |
As an authoritative reference volume, Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix, 2nd Edition, by Dominick A. DellaSala and Chad Hanson, offers a thorough treatment of modern wildfire ecology. The text provides scientific analysis for ecologists, forest managers, environmental policy analysts, and advanced students seeking to understand natural disturbance regimes across varied environments.
The work frames wildland fire as a keystone ecological process with an evolutionary history spanning over 400 million years. Across multiple ecological domains, the authors synthesize empirical findings regarding how mixed- and high-severity fires influence vegetation structure, bird species distributions, mammal habitat selection, insect community responses, and stream-riparian ecosystem functions.
Detailed thematic sections examine severe fire behavior in chaparral shrubland ecosystems together with bark beetle interactions in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. This reference equips land managers, foresters, and environmental campaigners with evidence-based insights to evaluate post-fire natural recovery and ecosystem management choices.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
Chapter 2: Ecological and Biodiversity Benefits of Mega-Fires
Chapter 3: Using Bird Ecology to Learn about the Benefits of Severe Fire
Chapter 4: Mammal Habitat Selection in Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
Chapter 5: Stream-Riparian Ecosystems of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
Chapter 6: Bark Beetles and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests
Chapter 7: High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands
Chapter 8: Regional Case Studies of Mixed-Severity Fires: South-East Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
Chapter 9: Climate Change and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires: Uncertainties, Shifting Baselines, and Fire Management
Chapter 10: Carbon Dynamics of Mixed- and High-Severity Wildfires: Pyrogenic CO2 Emissions, Post-fire Carbon Balance, and Succession
Chapter 11: In the Aftermath of Mixed- and High-Severity Fire: Logging and Related Actions Degrade Mixed and High-Severity Burn Areas
Chapter 12: The Rising Costs of Wildfire Suppression and the Case for Ecological Fire Use
Chapter 13: How wildfires behave in older forests
Chapter 14: After Fire Forests Are Born Again
Chapter 15: Debunking the Debunkers
Chapter 16: Flight of the Phoenix: Coexisting with Mixed-Severity Fires
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