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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: Biological interactions, Ecological succession, Mutualism, Commensalism, Camouflage, Henry David Thoreau, Carnivore, Wildfire, Edge effect, Nocturnality, Colony, Pedogenesis, Fire ecology, Storage effect, Ecological effects of biodiversity, Ecological facilitation, Competitive Lotka-Volterra equations, Niche apportionment models, Interspecific competition, Intraguild predation, Keystone species, Vegetation, Appalachian balds, Hydrosere, Disturbance, Henry Gleason, Community, Crypsis, Climax community, Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, Competitive exclusion principle, Cyclic succession, Xerosere, Host, Generalized Lotka-Volterra equation, Robert Whittaker, Consumer-resource systems, Frederic Clements, Lithosere, Climax species, Henry Chandler Cowles, Pioneer species, Paradox of the plankton, Mega Rice Project, Plagio climax community, Colonisation, Seral community, Intraspecific competition, Primary succession, Cheating, Antibiosis, Psammosere, Secondary succession, Heterotrophic nutrition, Climax vegetation, Sods, Halosere, Intermediate host, Holozoic nutrition, Advertising colouration, Epibiont, Allogenic succession, Old field, Gradient analysis, Autogenic succession, Parasitic nutrition, Herpetivore. Excerpt: A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wildland fire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from other fires by its extensive size, the speed at which it can spread out from its original source, its potential to change direction unexpectedly, and its ability to jump gaps such as roads, rivers and fire breaks. Wildfires are chara...
