Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix, Second Edition focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book describes the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as nature’s phoenix by drawing from examples of wildfire effects. In addition, the book describes management and policies that have contributed to wildfire problems, including climate change and land-use practices incompatible with nature’s phoenix and what must happen to get to coexistence with wildfires that are not going away no matter how much we try to suppress or alter fire behavior.
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Table of Contents
Section I: Biodiversity of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires1. Setting the Stage for Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
2. Ecological and Biodiversity Benefits of Mega-Fires
3. Using Bird Ecology to Learn about the Benefits of Severe Fire
4. Mammal Habitat Selection in Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
5. Stream-Riparian Ecosystems of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
6. Bark Beetles and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests
Section 2: Global Perspectives on Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
7. High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands
8. Regional Case Studies of Mixed-Severity Fires: South-East Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
9. Climate Change and Mixed- and High-Severity Fires: Uncertainties, Shifting Baselines, and Fire Management
10. Carbon Dynamics of Mixed- and High-Severity Wildfires: Pyrogenic CO2 Emissions, Post-fire Carbon Balance, and Succession
Section 3: Managing Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
11. In the Aftermath of Mixed- and High-Severity Fire: Logging and Related Actions Degrade Mixed and High-Severity Burn Areas
12. The Rising Costs of Wildfire Suppression and the Case for Ecological Fire Use
13. How wildfires behave in older forests
14. After Fire Forests Are Born Again
15. Debunking the Debunkers
16. Flight of the Phoenix: Coexisting with Mixed-Severity Fires
