Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications

Wildland fuels are a critical factor in fire management because they are the one factor that managers can control.  However, fuels have always been defined, described, and quantified in the context of inputs to fire behavior models.  Wildland fuel science was always considered part of fire behavior...

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Main Author: Keane, Robert E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Fuel Fundamentals
  • 3. Surface and Ground Fuels
  • 4. Canopy fuels
  • 5. Fuel Moisture
  • 6. Fuel Ecology
  • 7. Fuel Classifications
  • 8. Fuel Sampling.- 9. Fuel Mapping
  • 10. Fuel Concepts.