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First Symposium on Fire Ecology
Freiburg, Germany, 5-6 April 1977
The first Symposium on Fire Ecology in Europe was held at Freiburg University in April 1977. The symposium was inspired and organized by Johann Georg Goldammer, at that time student of forest sciences at Freiburg University, Germany, and Jean-Pierre Vité, Director of the Institute of Forest Zoology, Faculty of Forest Sciences.
Note: In 1979, the Fire Ecology Research Group was established at Freiburg University. In 1990, the Fire Ecology Research Group transited to the Max Planck Institute for the Advancement of Sciences, Max Planck institute for Chemistry, as a joint venture with Freiburg University. In 1998, the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) was formally established at the Fire Ecology Research Group.
- Symposium Programme and Abstracts (PDF, 9.6 MB)
- Symposium Part I: Contributions (PDF, 5.1 MB)
- Symposium Part II: Fire Ecology and Fire Management (by Johann Georg Goldammer) (PDF, 5.1 MB)
- Symposion-Feueroekologie 1977-Berichte (PDF, 3.4 MB)
The only photograph of the Symposium was taken on 5 April 1977 in the “Seminar Room” of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, Freiburg University
Preparatory Publications
- Preparatory Working Paper “Arbeitspapier zum Thema Feuerökologie“ (1976, in German) (PDF, 4.1 MB)
- Goldammer, J.G. 1976. Kontrolliertes Brennen in den USA. Das Feuer als ökologischer Faktor. Unser Wald 28, Heft 2, 49-53.
- Vité, J.P. und J.G. Goldammer 1977. Verwendung des kontrollierten Feuers in Waldbau und Forstschutz. Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift 32, 368-369.
Follow-up Publications
- Goldammer, J.G. 1977. Symposion Feuerökologie in Freiburg. Forst- u. Holzwirt 32, 184-186.
- Goldammer, J.G. 1979. Der Einsatz von kontrolliertem Feuer im Forstschutz. Allg. Forst- u. J. Ztg. 150, 41-44.
- Goldammer, J.G. 2000. Global transitions of fire and fire management: Retrospectives and perspectives. In: Fire and Forest Ecology: Innovative Silviculture and Vegetation Management (W.K. Moser and C.F. Moser, eds.), 1-9. Proc. Ann. Tall Timbers Fire Ecol. Conf. 21. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida.
- Goldammer, J.G. 2007. Feuerökologie – Einführung und Durchsetzung eines Begriffs. In: Jetzt ist die Landschaft ein Katalog voller Wörter. Beiträge zur Sprach der Ökologie (B. Busch, Hrsg.). Valerio 5, 119-127. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen (ISBN 978-3-8353-0155-9).
