Indigenous people play an integral role in shaping natural environments, and the disruption
to Indigenous land management practices has profound effects on the biosphere. Here, we …

Background Ecologists fiercely debate the role of soil conditions and fire regimes in
controlling forest–savanna boundaries. A prominent component of this debate centres on …

Western Tasmania contains large areas of treeless sedgeland interspersed with scrub and
forest vegetation. Why these large treeless areas exist in a region wet enough to support …

The World Heritage wilderness of south-western Tasmania contains a complex vegetation
mosaic of eucalypt forest, myrtaceous scrub and fire-sensitive rainforest embedded in highly …

An unresolved, key question in plant ecology and biogeography is the relative importance of
fire disturbance and edaphic factors in controlling treeless-forest boundaries. We …

The montane area of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area was recently burnt by
large fires ignited by lightning, and such fires are predicted to become more frequent with …

The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area has ecosystems and cultural landscapes
that have been created and/or influenced by the interactions between the physical …

Natural temperate grasslands are endangered throughout their range, largely because of
their almost complete conversion to agriculture, and by changes in fire and grazing regimes …

Active manipulation of disturbances such as fire and grazing is often necessary to maintain
or enhance biodiversity values in grasslands. However in many instances information is …

The argan tree “Argania spinosa L. skeel” is an all alone specie of the Sapotaceae family
endemic in Morocco since the tertiary era. As an oleo-agro-sylvo-pastoral tree, it has many …