Fire is a natural element of the environment that can have pervasive and beneficial impacts
on the ecosystems. Wildfires can induce dramatic socio-economic and environmental …

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 …

Extreme fire events have increased across south-eastern Australia owing to warmer and
drier conditions driven by anthropogenic climate change. Fuel reduction burning is widely …

The interrelation between climate change, biomass production, and rural poverty is an area
of growing concern, as these factors are intricately linked and often exacerbate one another …

Abstract In recent years, Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) have been used to capture
information on forest structure in unprecedented detail. Pioneering studies in this field have …

Vegetation is a key determinant of wildfire behaviour at field scales as it functions as fuel.
Past studies in the laboratory show that plant flammability, the ability of plants to ignite and …

While fire is an important ecological process, wildfire size and severity have increased as a
result of climate change, historical fire suppression, and lack of adequate fuels …

Prescribed fire is a management tool in many Australian and international ecosystems,
where it can benefit biodiversity conservation and potentially reduce the risk of extreme …

Increasing wildfire activity has spurred an increasing push for the application of prescribed
fire to reduce wildfire risk while simultaneously acting as a surrogate for fire's historical role …

Fire is a natural disturbance and a key driver of biome distribution and vegetation community
composition worldwide. Future climate change scenarios predict an increase in wildfire …