Forest fires: Behavior and ecological effects
Principal Investigators:
Edward A. Johnson, and Kiyoko Miyanishi
A major problem in fire ecology has been the lack of understanding
of fire behavior in any serious way by ecologists. A good proportion
of papers in fire ecology give only cursory descriptions of the fire and
seem always to lack any physical understanding of how fires affect individuals
and populations. In recognition of this deficiency, we have put together
a book to be published by Academic Press whose intention is to bridge the
gap between those who work on the physical and chemical processes of fire
behavior and ecologists who are interested... more
A major problem in fire ecology has been the lack of understanding
of fire behavior in any serious way by ecologists. A good proportion
of papers in fire ecology give only cursory descriptions of the fire and
seem always to lack any physical understanding of how fires affect individuals
and populations. In recognition of this deficiency, we have put together
a book to be published by Academic Press whose intention is to bridge the
gap between those who work on the physical and chemical processes of fire
behavior and ecologists who are interested in the ecological effects of
fire. In order for a book of this sort to be successful, we feel
a workshop is necessary in which the individual chapters are discussed
and improved by interaction between the fire behavior specialists, ecologists
and resource managers. The resulting book will, for the first time
we hope, provide a text which introduces foresters, ecologists, and resource
managers to the contemporary understanding of fire behavior and explain
how this understanding can be used to study ecological effects. We
know of no other text, published or planned, that has this goal.
We expect the text to potentially result in a major shift in research approaches
taken by foresters and ecologists as well as in the kind of information
that resource managers will require from fire researchers.
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Participants and Meetings
Activity | Dates | Further Information |
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Workshop | 15th—17th April 1999 | Participant List |
Participant Contact Information
Terry L. Clark | clark@ucar.edu | Unknown |
Matthew Dickinson | University of Calgary | |
Francis Fendell | TRW Space and Electronics Group | |
Michael Flannigan | mike.flannigan@ualberta.ca | Northern Forestry Center |
Mary Ann Jenkins | York University | |
Edward A. Johnson | johnsone@ucalgary.ca | University of Calgary |
Kenneth E. Kunkel | kekunkel@ncsu.edu | Illinois State Water Survey |
Don Latham | USDA Forest Service | |
David L. Martell | david.martell@utoronto.ca | University of Toronto |
G N. Mercer | gnm@chico.ma.adfa.oz.au | University of New South Wales, University College Canberra |
Kiyoko Miyanishi | kmiyanis@uoguelph.ca | University of Guelph |
Ralph M. Nelson | NFSNC Supervisor's Office | |
William J. Reed | University of Victoria | |
Kozo Saito | University of Kentucky | |
Tara Tchir | University of Calgary | |
Louis Trabaud | trabaud@cefe.cnrs-mop.fr | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Darold E. Ward | USDA Forest Service | |
Rodney O. Weber | University of New South Wales, University College Canberra | |
Earle R. Williams | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Michael F. Wolff | michael.wolff@trw.com | TRW Space and Electronics Group |
Michael Wotton | mwotton@nrcan.gc.ca | Canadian Forest Service |
Paul H. Zedler | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations
Type | Product of NCEAS Research |
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Book | Johnson, Edward A.; Miyanishi, Kiyoko. 2001. Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects. Edited by Johnson, Edward A.; Miyanishi, Kiyoko Academic Press. Pages 594. (Online version) |
"Forest fires: Behavior and ecological effects" is project ID: 2161