Fire phenomena and the Earth system : an interdisciplinary guide to fire science
Chicester
Wiley-Blackwell
2013
xiv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references )pages 320-322( and index
edited by Claire M. Belcher, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter
An introduction to combustion in organic materials -- Smouldering fires in natural fuels -- Experimental understanding of wildland fires -- Wildland fire behaviour and danger ratings -- Satellite remote sensing of wildfires -- Understanding the ecological impacts of fires -- Plant adaptations to fire an evolutionary perspective -- Fire and the land surface -- Black carbon in soils and sediments -- Identifying past fire events -- A 12,000 year history of fire -- A 054 million year history of fire -- The atmospheric impact of wildfires -- Experiments on atmospheric oxygen and fire -- Fire feedbacks on atmospheric oxygen -- Biochar and carbon sequestration