[HTML][HTML] Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

NJ Abram, BJ Henley, A Sen Gupta… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfire disaster in southeast Australia was
unprecedented: the extensive area of forest burnt, the radiative power of the fires, and the …

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

LT Kelly, KM Giljohann, A Duane, N Aquilué… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation
in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants …

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

EC Ellis, N Gauthier… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

MS Fletcher, R Hamilton… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

V Reyes-García, R Cámara-Leret… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

M Mariani, SE Connor, M Theuerkauf… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad‐scale questions
about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation …

Understanding fire regimes for a better Anthropocene

LT Kelly, MS Fletcher, IO Menor… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fire is an integral part of the Earth System and humans have skillfully used fire for millennia.
Yet human activities are scaling up and reinforcing each other in ways that are reshaping …

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 …

Changing plant functional diversity over the last 12,000 years provides perspectives for tracking future changes in vegetation communities

MA Adeleye, SG Haberle, R Gallagher… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Plant communities are largely reshaped by climate and the environment over millennia,
providing a powerful tool for understanding their response to future climates. Using a …