From the reviews:
This work represents the state of the art in North American landscape fire ecology. Integrating geospatial technologies with landscape ecology, the book presents the advanced student, practitioner, or researcher of fire management, landscape ecology, and climate change with conceptual frameworks, theory, and examples of data-driven analyses in multiple regions. ... Valuable as a reference for land managers of fire-dependent ecosystems, and as a point of departure for graduate research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional readership. (E. J. Delaney, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011)
This volume addresses several emerging ideas regarding the landscape ecology of fire, consisting of 12 collected chapters. ... it aims to advance certain emerging subfields and theories that are less covered in other publications. In this way much of the work is quite interesting and useful ... . this volume complements other fire ecology works well and ultimately achieves its objective of advancing thought on some promising new landscape disturbance theories and key contemporary topics. (Daniel C. Donato, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 88 (1), March, 2013)
PART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORY
1. Toward a Theory of Landscape Fire
Donald McKenzie, Carol Miller, and Donald A. Falk
2. Scaling Laws and Complexity in Fire Regimes
Donald McKenzie and Maureen Kennedy
3. Native Fire Regimes and Landscape Resilience
Max A. Moritz, Paul F. Hessburg, and Nicholas A. Povak
PART II: CLIMATE CONTEXT
4. Climate and Spatial Patterns of Wildfire in North America
Ze'ev Gedalof
5. Climatic Water Balance and Regional Fire Years in the Pacific Northwest, USA: Linking Regional Climate and Fire at Landscape Scales
Jeremy S. Littell and Richard B. Gwozdz
PART III: LANDSCAPE FIRE DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS
6. Pyrogeography and Biogeochemical Resilience
Erica A.H. Smithwick
7. Reconstructing Landscape Pattern of Historical Fires and Fire Regimes
Tyson Swetnam, Donald A. Falk, Amy E. Hessl, and Calvin Farris
8. Fire and Invasive Plants on California Landscapes
Jon E. Keeley, Janet Franklin, and Carla D'Antonio
9. Modeling Landscape Fire and Wildlife Habitat
Samuel A. Cushman, Tzeidle N. Wasserman, and Kevin McGarigal
PART IV: LANDSCAPE FIRE MANAGEMENT, POLICY, AND RESEARCH IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CHANGE
10. Managing and Adapting to Changing Fire Regimes in a Warmer Climate
David L. Peterson, Jessica E. Halofsky, and Morris C. Johnson
11. Wilderness Fire Management in a Changing Environment
Carol Miller, John Abatzoglou, Timothy Brown, and Alexandra Syphard
12. Synthesis: Landscape Ecology and Changing Fire Regimes
Donald McKenzie, Carol Miller, and Donald A. Falk