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Fire and Plants

Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However, despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of research on plant population biology in relation to fire, until now there have only been limited attempts at a coherent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bond, William J., van Wilgen, B.W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Population and Community Biology Series
Subjects:
Evolutionary Biology
Evolution (biology)
Plant Physiology
Ecology 
Ecology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 6.7 Conclusions
  • 7 Fire, competition and the organization of communities
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 What determines changes in plant communities over time?
  • 7.3 What determines spatial patterns in communities?
  • 7.4 Which combinations of species occur together and why?
  • 7.5 Determinants of species diversity
  • 7.6 Which rules for which communities?
  • 7.7 Conclusions
  • 8 Fire and management
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Fire as a versatile management practice
  • 8.3 Predicting the ecological effects of fire
  • 8.4 Managing fires
  • 8.5 Conclusions
  • 9 Fire and the ecology of a changing world
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Climate, fire and biogeography
  • 9.3 Changing patterns of fire in modern landscapes
  • 9.4 Ecological consequences of changing fire regimes
  • 9.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Species Index
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The global importance of fire
  • 1.2 Why we have written this book
  • 1.3 What this book is about
  • 1.4 Methods of fire ecology
  • 1.5 Ecological concepts and fire ecology
  • 1.6 Fire and the ecology of plants
  • 2 Why and how do ecosystems burn?
  • 2.1 The fire regime
  • 2.2 Prerequisites for fire
  • 2.3 Plants as ‘fuel’: what makes vegetation flammable?
  • 2.4 Fire recurrence intervals and their measurement
  • 2.5 Temperature of fires and survival of plant tissues
  • 2.6 Conclusions
  • 3 Surviving fires — vegetative and reproductive responses
  • 3.1 Vegetative survival
  • 3.2 The post-burn environment as reproductive stimulus
  • 3.3 Reproduction and fire
  • 3.4 Fire life-histories
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • 4 Plant demography and fire I. Interval-dependent effects
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Types of population growth
  • 4.3 Modelling populating growth
  • 4.4 Demography and the fire-interval hypothesis
  • 4.5 Density dependence and population regulation — the self-regulatory hypothesis
  • 4.6 Event-dependent dynamics and population regulation
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • 5 Plant demography and fire II. Event-dependent effects
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Effects of fire intensity and season on survival
  • 5.3 Effects of fire intensity and season on recruitment
  • 5.4 Effects of climate variation on recruitment
  • 5.5 Effects of ground fires
  • 5.6 Effects of fire area
  • 5.7 The causes of event-dependent effects
  • 5.8 Explaining survival patterns
  • 5.9 Explaining recruitment patterns
  • 5.10 Predicting event-dependent effects
  • 5.11 Event-dependent effects in different biomes
  • 5.12 Conclusions
  • 6 Fire and the evolutionary ecology of plants
  • 6.1 Fire and the evolution of plant traits
  • 6.2 Sprouters versus non-sprouters
  • 6.3 Life-history evolution
  • 6.4 Timing of reproduction andrecruitment
  • 6.5 Evolution of fire-survival traits
  • 6.6 Evolution of flammability

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