Flammable Australia. The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent

By P. J. Myerscough. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Complex responses of birds to landscape‐level fire extent, fire severity and environmental drivers (2014, background): “The widespread negative responses to severe landscape fire that we observed may have arisen from a range of interrelated reasons including as follows: (1) high levels of direct mortality from the intense conflagration (Keith et al., 2002).”
Habitat islands in fire‐prone vegetation: do landscape features influence community composition? (2002, background): “In Australia, much of the landscape is fire-prone because of the climate, the flammability of the vegetation and frequent sources of ignition (human and lightning) (Bradstock et al., 2002).”
Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the Face of Rapid Environmental Change (2008, background): “Fire-prone ecosystems generally have characteristic fire regimes determined either by the incidence of lightning ignitions or by human fire use, particularly by indigenous peoples (77-79).”
Influence of fire history on small mammal distributions: insights from a 100‐year post‐fire chronosequence (2011, background): “‘Mallee’ vegetation offers a model system for investigating post-fire changes in animal populations: the structure of this eucalypt-dominated vegetation is strongly associated with fire (Bradstock & Cohn, 2002).”
Climate change and its impact on Australia's avifauna (2005, background): “Overall, the scenarios emphasise an increase in variability and reduced predictability for Australia’s climate, with increased incidence and intensity of extreme events such as fires, floods, droughts and tropical storms (e.g. Williams et al. 2001; Cary 2002; Walsh et al. 2004).”
Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest (2011, background): “In semi-arid climates with low decomposition rates, litter accumulation is high and surface fuels (such as leaf litter) are important for fire transmission (Bradstock & Cohn 2002).”
Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change (2010, background): “Australia is one of the most fire-prone continents in the world, with all but the wettest areas subject to frequent burning (Bradstock et al. 2002).”
Using historical ecology to understand patterns of biodiversity in fragmented agricultural landscapes (2005, background): “The importance of anthropogenic disturbance regimes for biodiversity conservation is most obvious in ecosystems requiring burning or grazing regimes to maintain plant and animal biodiversity (Keith et al., 2002).”
The challenge of plant regeneration after fire in the Mediterranean Basin: scientific gaps in our knowledge on plant strategies and evolution of traits (2007, background): “For the Australian continent, a detailed analysis of the variety of adaptive traits in relation to different local fire regimes is available (Bradstock et al. 2002).”
Sprouting by semi‐arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits (2004, background): “…woodland experiences fire with a similar mean frequency, though with less variable inter-fire periods as Triodia scariosa (porcupine grass) fuel breaks down more slowly than Stipa spp. in open woodland and so is retained over a number of years (Bradstock 1989, Noble 1989, Bradstock and Cohn 2002).”