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 …

What do the Australian black summer fires signify for the global fire crisis?

RH Nolan, DMJS Bowman, H Clarke, K Haynes… - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
The 2019–20 Australian fire season was heralded as emblematic of the catastrophic harm
wrought by climate change. Similarly extreme wildfire seasons have occurred across the …

Re-orienting nature-based solutions with more-than-human thinking

C Maller - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
Different ways of thinking and understanding urban problems and imagining solutions are
needed to redress the suite of serious challenges facing cities. Focusing on urban nature …

Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue

RH Nolan, LO Anderson, B Poulter… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Each year, wild and managed fires burn roughly 4 million km2 [~ 400 million hectares
(Mha)] of savanna, forest, grassland and agricultural ecosystems. Land use and climate …

Australia's megafires: Biodiversity impacts and lessons from 2019-2020

S van Leeuwen - 2023 - books.google.com
The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented.
These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and …

Monitoring threats to Australian threatened birds: climate change was the biggest threat in 2020 with minimal progress on its management

ST Garnett, JCZ Woinarski, G Barry Baker… - Emu-Austral …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Most biodiversity monitoring globally tends to concentrate on trends in species' populations
and ranges rather than on threats and their management. Here we review the estimated …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of the impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires of southern and eastern Australia on invertebrate species Final Report

J Marsh, P Bal, H Fraser… - National …, 2021 - nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au
The 2019-20 wildfires of eastern and southern Australia were exceptional in their severity
and extent, resulting in catastrophic impacts on biodiversity. Those impacts have been well …

[HTML][HTML] Air quality impacts of the 2019–2020 Black Summer wildfires on Australian schools

G Di Virgilio, MA Hart, AM Maharaj, N Jiang - Atmospheric Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2019–2020 Black Summer wildfires wrought destruction across Australia and
exposed millions of people to air pollution. Using a new school-based observational network …

Using citizen science to measure recolonisation of birds after the Australian 2019–2020 mega‐fires

JS Lee, CT Callaghan, WK Cornwell - Austral Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Large and severe fires ('mega‐fires') are increasing in frequency across the globe, often
pushing into ecosystems that have previously had very long fire return intervals. The 2019 …

Koala cathelicidin PhciCath5 has antimicrobial activity, including against Chlamydia pecorum

E Peel, Y Cheng, JT Djordjevic, D O'Meally, M Thomas… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Devastating fires in Australia over 2019–20 decimated native fauna and flora, including
koalas. The resulting population bottleneck, combined with significant loss of habitat …