ISBN:
9780191054051
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Scott, Andrew C Burning Planet : The Story of Fire Through Time
DDC:
541/.361
Keywords:
Wildfires
;
Fire management
;
Forest fires
;
Fire History
;
Fire ecology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role of wildfires on landscapes today
Abstract:
Cover -- Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Plates -- 1. Introducing fire -- Tracking modern fires -- After the fire -- The toll on communities -- Fire and vegetation -- Adapted for fire -- Controlled fire -- 2. Getting dirty: what charcoal can tell us -- Making charcoal -- The recognition of fossil charcoal -- Charcoal under the microscope -- Investigating fossil charcoal -- The temperature of fires -- New tools to understand the past -- 3. Kindling -- The evolution of fuel -- Ignition -- Oxygen -- Feedbacks -- 4. The rise, fall, and rise of fire -- The earliest fires -- The Carboniferous -- The Permian -- 5. Fire, flowers, and dinosaurs -- The Triassic -- The Jurassic -- The early Cretaceous -- The appearance of flowers -- Fire and dinosaurs -- The evolution of fire traits -- A global conflagration? -- 6. Fire and the coming of the modern world -- The impact of grasslands -- Decoding the recent history of fire -- The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis -- 7. Prometheus -- Earliest evidence of fire use -- The environmental impact of human fire use -- Fire and climate -- 8. The future of fire -- The impact of invasive plants -- Fire in the warming Earth -- Fire as health hazard -- APPENDIX: INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- FURTHER READING -- LIST OF FIGURE CREDITS -- LIST OF PLATE CREDITS -- Black and white plates -- Colour plates -- PUBLISHERâS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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