Keywords :
Fire Ecology; Biogeography; Savanna Forests; South East Asia
บทคัดย่อ :
The ecological significance of fire is reviewed, particularly in relation to the savanna forest of mainland South East Asia, a community, in which dry season burns occur annually or at least every 2-3 years. It is argued that this tropical deciduous formation is basically an edaphic climax which is well adapted physiognomically, physiologically and phenologically to fire and which in consequence has been gradually spread into the more fire-sensitive adjacent associations, such as tropical semi-evergreen rain forest, by cutting and burning. A careful examination is made of the forest fire environment, of the fuels involved, of the life forms and their adaptive capacity, and of the origins and characteristics of the fires themselves. A case is presented for the prescribed application of fire in this type of habitat and suggestions for appropriate future work are given.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Stott, P. (1988). The forest as Phoenix: towards a biogeography of fire in mainland South East Asia. Geographical Journal, 337-350.
