Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia: Ecological Impacts and Links to the Global System....Pages 1-20
Wild Hearth A Prolegomenon to the Cultural Fire History of Northern Eurasia....Pages 21-44
Retrospective Analysis of Natural Fire Regimes in Landscapes of Eastern Fennoscandia and Problems in Their Anthropogenic Transformation....Pages 45-54
The Impact of Fire on Finnish Forests in the Past and Today....Pages 55-64
The Role of Paleofire in Boreal and Other Cool-Coniferous Forests....Pages 65-89
Fire and Climate History in the Central Yenisey Region, Siberia....Pages 90-104
Reconstruction of Summer Temperatures with a Circumpolar Tree Ring Network....Pages 105-111
Analysis of the Distribution of Forest Fires in Russia....Pages 112-128
Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Forest Fires in Siberia....Pages 129-138
Major 1992 Forest Fires in Central and Eastern Siberia: Satellite and Fire Danger Measurements....Pages 139-150
Fire Ecology of Pine Forests of Northern Eurasia....Pages 151-167
Pyrological Regimes and Dynamics of the Southern Taiga Forests in Siberia....Pages 168-185
The Role of Fire in Forest Cover, Structure, and Dynamics in the Russian Far East....Pages 186-190
Importance of Fire in Forest Formation under Various Zonal-Geographic Conditions of the Far East....Pages 191-196
Fires in Ecosystems of the Far Northeast of Siberia....Pages 197-210
Fire-Induced Transformations in the Productivity of Light Coniferous Stands of the Trans-Baikal Region and Mongolia....Pages 211-218
Forest Fires in the Eastern Trans-Baikal Region and Elimination of Their Consequences....Pages 219-226
Pyrological Zoning: Principles, Methods, and Significance of the Role of the Geographical Factor in the Problem of Wildland Fires....Pages 227-238
Forest Fuel Maps....Pages 239-252
Sectoral and Zonal Classes of Forest Cover in Siberia and Eurasia as a Basis of Clarifying Landscape Pyrological Characteristics....Pages 253-259
The Extreme Fire Season in the Central Taiga Forests of Yakutia....Pages 260-270
Forest Fire Spread as a Probabilistic Modelling Problem....Pages 271-276
Information Technology for Forest Fire Danger Rating Evaluation....Pages 277-284
Mathematical Modelling of Forest Fires....Pages 285-302
Mathematical Modelling and Optimization of Forest Fire Localization Processes....Pages 303-313
A Mathematical Model of Spread of High-Intensity Forest Fires....Pages 314-325
Burned Forest Area Type Classification....Pages 326-330
Fires and Soil Formation....Pages 331-336
Soil Microbial Biomass: Determination and Reaction to Burning and Ash Fertilization....Pages 337-349
Ecological Effects of Peat Fire on Forested Bog Ecosystems....Pages 350-357
Effects of Fire on the Regeneration of Larch Forests in the Lake Baikal Basin....Pages 358-365
Post-Fire Mortality and Regeneration of Larix sibirica and Larix dahurica in Conditions of Long-Term Permafrost....Pages 366-371
The Main Trends of Post-Fire Succession in Near-Tundra Forests of Central Siberia....Pages 372-386
Fire Effects on Larch Forests of Central Evenkia....Pages 387-392
Ecological Estimation of Forest Succession Patterns in Central Angara Region....Pages 393-403
Forest Formation Processes after Fire in the Volga Region....Pages 404-408
Response of the Endemic Insect Fauna to Fire Damage in Forest Ecosystems....Pages 409-413
Simulation of Forest Insect Outbreaks....Pages 414-430
Fire — Vegetation — Wildlife Interactions in the Boreal Forest....Pages 431-444
Fire Ecology in Sweden and Future Use of Fire for Maintaining Biodiversity....Pages 445-452
Impacts of Prescribed Burning on Soil Fertility and Regeneration of Scots Pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.)....Pages 453-464
Composition of Smoke from North American Boreal Forest Fires....Pages 465-475
The Effects of Forest Fires on the Concentration and Transport of Radionuclides....Pages 476-480
Fire Weather Climatology in Canada and Russia....Pages 481-494
Risk Analysis in Strategic Planning: Fire and Climate Change in the Boreal Forest....Pages 495-504
Fire — Climate Change Hypotheses for the Taiga....Pages 505-512
Understanding Boreal Ecosystems Opening Remarks at the International Conference “Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia”, Krasnoyarsk, 29 June – 2 July 1993....Pages 513-515
International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) Stand Replacement Fire Working Group....Pages 516-517
Fire Research in the Boreal Forests of Eurasia: A Component of a Global Fire Research Program....Pages 518-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-531