Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change

RH Nolan, L Collins, A Leigh, MKJ Ooi… - Plant, cell & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Record‐breaking fire seasons in many regions across the globe raise important questions
about plant community responses to shifting fire regimes (ie, changing fire frequency …

Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia

MS Fletcher, A Romano, S Connor, M Mariani… - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the
recorded history of Southeast Australia. These bushfires were one of several recent global …

The curse of conservation: Empirical evidence demonstrating that changes in land-use legislation drove catastrophic bushfires in Southeast Australia

A Laming, MS Fletcher, A Romano, R Mullett, S Connor… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Protecting “wilderness” and removing human involvement in “nature” was a core pillar of the
modern conservation movement through the 20th century. Conservation approaches and …

Long-term stability of temperate Australian wet forest-moorland mosaics despite recurrent fires associated with late Holocene climate change

MA Adeleye, SG Haberle, DMJS Bowman - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context The primary factors (s) responsible for the maintenance of Alternative biome states
(ABS) in world forest biomes remains unclear and debatable, partly due to insufficient long …

Do Fire Cues Enhance Germination of Soil Seed Stores across an Ecotone of Wet Eucalypt Forest to Cool Temperate Rainforest in the Central Highlands of South …

S Younis, S Kasel - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soil seed banks play an important role in plant species persistence in fire-prone systems.
Response to fire related germination cues often reflect historical fire regimes and can be …

Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness

MS Fletcher, A Romano, A Lisé‐Pronovost… - Geographical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on
Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000‐year record of landscape change from Lake …

The influence of climatic change, fire and species invasion on a Tasmanian temperate rainforest system over the past 18,000 years

F Michael-Shawn, BD MJS, W Cathy, M Michela… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
We aim to understand how did cool temperate rainforest respond to changes in climate and
fire activity over the past 18 kcal yrs, interrogating the role that flammable plant species …

Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia

MS Fletcher, A Romano, S Nichols… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Humans undertake land management and care of landscapes to maintain safe, healthy,
productive and predictable environments. Often, this is achieved through creating spatial …

Aquatic ecosystem response to climate, fire, and the demise of montane rainforest, Tasmania, Australia

KK Beck, MS Fletcher, BB Wolfe… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The 2019/2020 southeast Australian fires ravaged the environment and threatened endemic
vegetation groups, including the Tasmanian montane rainforest. This endemic biome …

Flood resilience: Response of an Australian sub‐tropical riparian rainforest to catastrophic flooding

L Martiniello, AG Baker, JC Grant, G Palmer - Austral ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian taxa are subject to dynamic, intense, flood‐related stressors, and have evolved
traits to persist in this environment. Climate change‐induced intensification of flood regimes …