Opportunities and challenges for savanna burning emissions abatement in southern Africa

J Russell-Smith, C Yates, R Vernooij, T Eames… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Savanna fires occurring in sub-Saharan Africa account for over 60% of global fire extent, of
which more than half occurs in the Southern Hemisphere contributing~ 29% of global fire …

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia's tropical savannahs

MI Bird, M Brand, R Comley, X Fu, X Hadeen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous
societies practiced land management across Australia's extensive tropical savannahs. Fire …

Transforming fire management in northern Australia through successful implementation of savanna burning emissions reductions projects

A Edwards, R Archer, P De Bruyn, J Evans… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Savannas are the most fire-prone of Earth's biomes and currently account for most global
burned area and associated carbon emissions. In Australia, over recent decades substantial …

Gross primary productivity and water use efficiency are increasing in a high rainfall tropical savanna

LB Hutley, J Beringer, S Fatichi… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their size and contribution to the global carbon cycle, we have limited understanding
of tropical savannas and their current trajectory with climate change and anthropogenic …

A national accounting framework for fire and carbon dynamics in Australian savannas

KI Paul, SH Roxburgh - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background: Tropical savannas represent a large proportion of the area burnt each year
globally, with growing evidence that management to curtail fire frequency and intensity in …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dynamics in tree plantings: How changes in woody biomass impact litter and soil carbon

KI Paul, JR England, SH Roxburgh - Forest Ecology and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding carbon sequestration from tree planting and management activities is
important for contributing to the mitigation of climate change. Although rates of growth and …

[HTML][HTML] Incentivizing sustainable fire management in Australia's northern arid spinifex grasslands

C Yates, J Evans, R Vernooij, T Eames, E Muir… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire management across Australia's fire-prone 1.2 M km 2 northern savannas region has
been transformed over the past decade supported by the inception of Australia's national …

Framework for a savanna burning emissions abatement methodology applicable to fire-prone miombo woodlands in southern Africa

J Russell-Smith, C Yates, R Vernooij… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background & Aims: to assess development of a robust emissions accounting framework
pertinent to expansive miombo woodland savannas covering~ 2M km2 of southern Africa …

Seasonal litter decomposition and accumulation in north Australian savanna

C Yates, J Evans, J Russell-Smith - International Journal of …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background Calculating greenhouse gas emissions from fires relies on estimation of
available fuels at time of burn. Fuel accumulation and decomposition occur throughout the …