Overview
- The first comprehensive volume on wildland fuels in the context of ecology and land management
- Provides the critical information on the characteristics of wildland fuels that fire management professionals need to design, evaluate, and implement fuel treatments
- This book has many secondary applications, including for carbon accounting, wildlife habitat assessment, erosion control, and smoke calculation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Fuel Fundamentals
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Fuel Applications
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“Keane (USDA Forest Service) covers the whats and whys of fuels—the biomass consumed by wildland fire. … The clear, comprehensive text is liberally illustrated with line drawings and photos, tables, and charts. Destined to be a classic. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates and above.” (E. J. Delaney, Choice, Vol. 52 (10), June, 2015)
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Book Title: Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications
Authors: Robert E. Keane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09015-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09014-6Published: 18 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35254-1Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09015-3Published: 04 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Forestry, Environmental Management, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Ecology