Fire ecology
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Fire as a natural disturbance
    • 1.1 The effects of fire on an ecosystem
    • 1.2 Fire dependant ecosystems
    • 1.3 Fire regimes
    • 1.4 Fire severity
    • 1.5 Fire frequency
  • 2 Adaptation of plants in fire-prone ecosystems
    • 2.1 Thick bark
    • 2.2 Sprouting from insulated buds
    • 2.3 Fire-stimulated seed release
    • 2.4 Fire-stimulated seed germination from seed banks
    • 2.5 Fire-stimulated flowering
  • 3 The response of animals to fire
    • 3.1 Avoiding fire
    • 3.2 Benefitting from fire
    • 3.3 Morphological traits for detecting fire
  • 4 Fire, habitat complexity and biodiversity
    • 4.1 Fire and ecological succession
    • 4.2 The intermediate disturbance hypothesis
    • 4.3 The pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis
  • 5 Climate change and fire ecology
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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