Wildland Fire, Forest Dynamics, and Their Interactions
"This book, derived from a special issue published in Forests, includes 18 articles that examine diverse aspects of wildland fire and forest dynamics in many fire-prone parts of the world. Several articles offer new perspectives on basic fire and forest interactions and surmise how altered dynamics may arise in the future. Similarly, articles in this book address the growing concern of cumulative impacts of multiple natural disturbances (drought, insect outbreaks) whose incidence is also changing, sometimes drastically.... Overall, the collection of articles in this special issue reinforce the notion that wildfire fires do not act in isolation in a given forest system: they constantly interact with an environment that is dynamic and complex." (p. ix)