Fire and plants

Reviews the discipline of fire ecology under the following chapter headings: introduction (global importance, methods, ecological concepts); why and how do ecosystems burn (the fire regime, prerequisites for fire, temperatures of fires and survival of plant tissue); surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses; plant demography and fire interval-dependent effects (types of population growth, modelling population growth, demography and the fire interval hypothesis, density dependence and population regulation - the self-reegulatory hypothesis) and event-dependent effects (effects of fire intensity and season on survival and recruitment, effects of ground fires and fire area); fire and the evolutionary ecology of plants; fire, competition and the organization of communities; fire and management; and fire and the ecology of a changing world. -S.R.Harris