THE ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF MIXED-SEVERITY FIRES. NATURE'S PHOENIX

Section 1: Biodiversity of Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
• Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for Mixed- and High-Severity Fire
• Chapter 2: Ecological and Biodiversity Benefits of Megafires
• Chapter 3: Using Bird Ecology to Learn About the Benefits of Severe Fire
• Chapter 4: Mammals and Mixed- and High-severity Fire
• Chapter 5: Stream-Riparian Ecosystems and Mixed- and High-Severity Fire
• Chapter 6: Bark Beetles and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests
Section 2: Global and Regional Perspectives on Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
• Chapter 7: High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands
• Chapter 8: Regional Case Studies: Southeast Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe, and Boreal Canada
• Chapter 9: Climate Change: Uncertainties, Shifting Baselines, and Fire Management
• Chapter 10: Carbon Dynamics of Mixed- and High-Severity Wildfires: Pyrogenic CO2 Emissions, Postfire Carbon Balance, and Succession
Section 3: Managing Mixed- and High-Severity Fires
• Chapter 11: In the Aftermath of Fire: Logging and Related Actions Degrade Mixed- and High-Severity Burn Areas
• Chapter 12: The Rising Costs of Wildfire Suppression and the Case for Ecological Fire Use
• Chapter 13: Flight of the Phoenix: Coexisting with Mixed-Severity Fires
• Index

• Offers the first reference written on mixed- and high-severity fires and their relevance for biodiversity
• Contains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions
• Explores the conservation vs. public controversy issues around megafires in a rapidly warming world

Authors
• Dominick A DellaSala, President and Chief Scientist, Geos Institute, USA.
• Chad T. Hanson, Forest and Fire Ecologist, Earth Island Institute, USA