Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire

JJ Sharples, GJ Cary, P Fox-Hughes, S Mooney… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
Bushfires are one of the most frequent natural hazards experienced in Australia. Fires play
an important role in shaping the landscape and its ecological dynamics, but may also have …

Onset and evolution of southern annular mode-like changes at centennial timescale

PI Moreno, I Vilanova, R Villa-Martínez, RB Dunbar… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Westerly Winds (SWW) are the surface expression of geostrophic
winds that encircle the southern mid-latitudes. In conjunction with the Southern Ocean, they …

An early onset of ENSO influence in the extra-tropics of the southwest Pacific inferred from a 14, 600 year high resolution multi-proxy record from Paddy's Lake …

KK Beck, MS Fletcher, PS Gadd, H Heijnis… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Tropical El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important influence on natural
systems and cultural change across the Pacific Ocean basin. El Niño events result in …

Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian Islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions

CI Roos, JS Field, JV Dudgeon - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Remote islands in the Pacific Ocean (Oceania) experienced dramatic environmental
transformations after initial human settlement in the past 3,000 yr. Here, human causality of …

The sedimentary and remote‐sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe

C Adolf, S Wunderle, D Colombaroli… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We provide the first European‐scale geospatial training set relating the charcoal signal
in surface lake sediments to fire parameters (number, intensity and area) recorded by …

ENSO controls interannual fire activity in southeast Australia

M Mariani, MS Fletcher, A Holz… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the main mode controlling the variability in
the ocean‐atmosphere system in the South Pacific. While the ENSO influence on rainfall …

Long-term climate dynamics in the extra-tropics of the South Pacific revealed from sedimentary charcoal analysis

M Mariani, MS Fletcher - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
We synthesized 13 high-resolution charcoal records located within the current zone of
strongest correlation between the southern westerly winds (SWW) and rainfall on Earth in an …

The potential power and pitfalls of using the X-ray fluorescence molybdenum incoherent: coherent scattering ratio as a proxy for sediment organic content

CA Woodward, PS Gadd - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in organic matter concentration in sediment cores from natural archives
such as lakes and wetlands can be a valuable tool in paleoenvironmental studies. The …

The Southern Annular Mode determines interannual and centennial‐scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia

M Mariani, MS Fletcher - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary mode of atmospheric variability in the
Southern Hemisphere. While it is well established that the current anthropogenic‐driven …

Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests

M Mariani, MS Fletcher, S Haberle, H Chin… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is affecting the distribution of species and the functioning of ecosystems. For
species that are slow growing and poorly dispersed, climate change can force a lag …