Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be
predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter …

Prescribed burning is a commonly applied management tool, and there has been
considerable debate over the efficacy of its application. We review data relating to the …

Why do Australian rainforests occur as islands within the vast tracts of Eucalyptus? Why is
fire a critical ecological factor in every Australian landscape? What were the consequences …

Conservation planning has hitherto concentrated largely on the representation of
biodiversity patterns within a system of conservation areas. Only recently has there been an …

Fire intensity affects ecological and geophysical processes in fire-prone landscapes. We
examined the potential for satellite imagery (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre [SPOT2] …

1 A comprehensive data set on age, survival and reproduction for the non‐sprouting (fire‐
killed) shrub Banksia hookeriana, encompassing 13 years of measurements at 15 sites in …

South-west Australia is a region of remarkable biological diversity, predominantly shaped by
diversity of climate and geomorphology. Fire has also played an important role in shaping …

There is currently a poor understanding of the nature and extent of long‐distance seed
dispersal, largely due to the inherent difficulty of detection. New statistical approaches and …

Disturbance events strongly influence the dynamics of plant and animal populations within
nature reserves. Although many models predict the patterns of succession following a …

Recent decades have witnessed increasing attention in theory and practice to participatory
approaches to policy appraisal, in part due to the potential of such approaches to facilitate …