Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America

HI Jager, JW Long, RL Malison, BP Murphy… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and
severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will …

Important issues facing insect conservation in Australia: now and into the future

DPA Sands - Austral Entomology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of insect biodiversity and conservation in Australia have been severely limited by the
many undescribed species and paucity of taxonomists and insect ecologists. In this review, I …

Machine learning methods and synthetic data generation to predict large wildfires

FJ Pérez-Porras, P Triviño-Tarradas… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wildfires are becoming more frequent in different parts of the globe, and the ability to predict
when and where they will occur is a complex process. Identifying wildfire events with high …

Long-unburnt habitat is critical for the conservation of threatened vertebrates across Australia

B von Takach, CJ Jolly, KM Dixon, CE Penton… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Increases in fire frequency, intensity and extent are occurring globally. Relative to
historical, Indigenous managed conditions, contemporary landscapes are often …

Long term monitoring reveals the importance of large, long unburnt areas and smaller fires in moderating mammal declines in fire‐prone Savanna of northern …

LD Einoder, A Fisher, BM Hill, K Buckley… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity loss is often attributable to multiple interacting pressures that are moderated
across environmental gradients. These processes contribute to complex responses that are …

Forest fire spread simulation algorithm based on cellular automata

X Rui, S Hui, X Yu, G Zhang, B Wu - Natural hazards, 2018 - Springer
Traditional models result in low efficiency and poor accuracy when simulating the spread of
large-scale forest fires. We constructed an improved model that couples cellular automata …

Effects of a large wildfire on vegetation structure in a variable fire mosaic

CN Foster, PS Barton, NM Robinson… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Management guidelines for many fire‐prone ecosystems highlight the importance of
maintaining a variable mosaic of fire histories for biodiversity conservation. Managers are …

Fire intensity effects on post-fire fuel recovery in Eucalyptus open forests of south-eastern Australia

L Volkova, AGW Aparicio, CJ Weston - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This is a study of the re-accumulation of bushfire fuels following both prescribed fire of low
fireline intensity (< 700 kW m− 1) and wildfire of high intensity (> 10,000 kW m− 1) in …

Cyclones, fire, and termites: the drivers of tree hollow abundance in northern Australia's mesic tropical savanna

LA Woolley, BP Murphy, IJ Radford, J Westaway… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tree hollows are a vital wildlife feature, whose abundance and availability has declined in
many regions due to broad-scale vegetation clearance, timber-harvesting, and disturbance …

A critical review of fuel accumulation models used in Australian fire management

HH Zazali, IN Towers, JJ Sharples - International journal of …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Various classifications of fuel accumulation models are used to describe the complex
temporal relationship between fuel loads and vegetation dynamics. Fuel accumulation …