Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change

RH Nolan, L Collins, A Leigh, MKJ Ooi… - Plant, cell & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Record‐breaking fire seasons in many regions across the globe raise important questions
about plant community responses to shifting fire regimes (ie, changing fire frequency …

Learning to coexist with wildfire

MA Moritz, E Batllori, RA Bradstock, AM Gill, J Handmer… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

MM Boer, V Resco de Dios, RA Bradstock - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—Between September 2019 and early January 2020, around 5.8 million
hectares of mainly temperate broadleaf forest were burned in New South Wales (NSW) and …

The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

L Collins, RA Bradstock, H Clarke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme fire seasons characterised by very large'mega-fires' have demonstrably increased
area burnt across forested regions globally. However, the effect of extreme fire seasons on …

Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture

TM Ellis, DMJS Bowman, P Jain… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is mounting concern that global wildfire activity is shifting in frequency, intensity, and
seasonality in response to climate change. Fuel moisture provides a powerful means of …

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 …

Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia

L Collins, H Clarke, MF Clarke… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The aims were:(1) to identify the environmental drivers of interannual variation
in wildfire extent and severity;(2) to examine temporal trends in climatic potential for large …

The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management

DMJS Bowman, GJ Williamson, RK Gibson… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The 2019–20 wildfires in eastern Australia presented a globally important opportunity to
evaluate the respective roles of climatic drivers and natural and anthropogenic disturbances …

Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales

TD Le Breton, MB Lyons, RH Nolan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires in 2019–2020 broke global records for extent and severity, affirming the arrival of
the megafire era. Frequent megafires reflect changes to fire regimes that can negatively …