University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Papers from the Third Symposium on Fire Ecology held at Freiburg University in May 1989 and sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fire in tropical ecosystems and global environmental change : an introduction / D. Mueller-Dombois and J.G. Goldammer -- The impact of droughts and forest fires on tropical lowland rain forest of East Kalimantan / J.G. Goldammer and B. Seibert -- The role of fire in the tropical lowland deciduous forests of Asia / P.A. Stott, J.G. Goldammer, and W.L. Werner -- Fire in the pine-grassland biomes of tropical and subtropical Asia / J.G. Goldammer and S.R. Pe�nafiel -- Fire in some tropical and subtropical South American vegetation types : an overview / R.V. Soares -- Fire in the ecology of the Brazilian Cerrado / L.M. Coutinho -- Fire in the tropical rain forest of the Amazon Basin / P.M. Fearnside -- Interactions of anthropogenic activities, fire, and rain forests in the Amazon Basin / J.B. Kauffman and C. Uhl -- Social and ecological aspects of fire in Central America / A.L. Koonce and A. Gonz�ales-Cab�an -- Fires and their effects in the wet-dry tropics of Australia / A.M. Gill, J.R.L. Hoare, and N.P. Cheney -- Fire management in southern Africa : some examples of current objectives, practices, and problems / B.W. van Wilgen, C.S. Everson, and W.S.W. Trollope -- Prescribed fire in industrial pine plantations / C. de Ronde [and others] -- Landscapes and climate in prehistory : interactions of wildlife, man, and fire / W. Sch�ule -- Fire conservancy : the origins of wildland fire protection in British India, America, and Australia / S.J. Pyne -- The contribution of remote sensing to the global monitoring of fires in tropical and subtropical ecosystems / J.-P. Malingreau -- Remote sensing of biomass burning in the tropics / Y.J. Kaufman [and others] -- NOAA-AVHRR and GIS-based monitoring of fire activity in Senegal -- a provisional methodology and potential applications / P. Frederiksen, S. Langaas, and M. Mbaye -- Factors influencing the emissions of gases and particulate matter from biomass burning / D.E. Ward -- Ozone production from biomass burning in tropical Africa. Results from DECAFE-88 / M.O. Andreae [and others] -- Estimates of annual and regional releases of COb2s and other trace gases to the atmosphere from fires in the tropics, based on the FAO statistics for the period 1975-1980 / Wei Min Hao, Mei-Huey Liu, and P.J. Crutzen -- Global change : effects on forest ecosystems and wildfire severity / M.A. Fosberg [and others].