Prescribed burning

Changed forest cover and fire effects

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Daniel Collins' PhD study is looking at areas where there is geographic information system (GIS) or other mapping or aerial photo evidence of a changed forest cover in the wet tropics since European settlement.

Sites will be chosen to undertake field work to try to determine if there has been an increase in schlerophyll forest or rainforest. The schlerophyll forest will then be related to possible increased fire effects and whether these instances are examples that compare with the numerous predictions for changed forest cover expected with a changing climate.

Improved Methods for Assessment and Prediction of Grassland Curing Satellite Based Curing Methods and Mapping - final report

G. J. Newnham, Grant, I. F., Martin, D., and Anderson, S. A. J., “Improved Methods for Assessment and Prediction of Grassland Curing Satellite Based Curing Methods and Mapping - final report”, 2010.

Predicting woody fuel consumption: Can existing models be used?

Fire Note 76: The ability to accurately predict woody fuel consumption during a fire is important for both forest and fire management. Information on woody fuel consumption in Australian southern eucalypt forest is scant and the predictive capacity of existing models unknown.

This Fire Note is a summary of work undertaken as part of Bushfire CRC Program A: Safe Prevention, Preparation and Suppression. It evaluates the predictive capacity of five existing models against a dataset representing a range of fire behaviour characteristics of prescribed burning conditions.

Application of fire history records to contemporary management issues in south-west Australian forests

L. W. McCaw, Hamilton, T., and rumley, C., “Application of fire history records to contemporary management issues in south-west Australian forests”, A Forest Conscienceness: Proceedings 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc. Millpress, Rotterdam, Augusta, Western Australia, pp. 555-564, 2005.

Indigenous Wetland Burning: Conserving Natural and Cultural Resources in Australia’s World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park

S. McGregor, Lawson, V., Christophersen, P., Kennett, R., Boyden, J., Bayliss, P., Liedloff, A., McKaige, B. J., and Andersen, A. N., “Indigenous Wetland Burning: Conserving Natural and Cultural Resources in Australia’s World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park”, Human Ecology, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 721 - 729, 2010.

Variation in fire interval sequences has minimal effects on species richness and composition in fire-prone landscapes of south-west Western Australia

R. Wittkuhn, McCaw, L. W., Wills, A. J., Robinson, R., Andersen, A. N., Van Heurck, P., Farr, J., Liddelow, G., and Cranfield, R., “Variation in fire interval sequences has minimal effects on species richness and composition in fire-prone landscapes of south-west Western Australia”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 261, no. 5, pp. 965-978, 2011.

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