Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

DMJS Bowman, GLW Perry… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …

The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape

MS Fletcher, T Hall, AN Alexandra - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Spatiotemporal dynamic of soil erosion and the key factors impact processes over semi-arid catchments in Southwest China

Y Zhou, Y Yi, H Liu, C Tang, S Zhang - Ecological Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The heterogeneity of geographic environments and vegetation types plays a crucial role in
determining soil erosion patterns. Highlighting the influence of environmental factors and …

[图书][B] Aboriginal biocultural knowledge in south-eastern Australia: Perspectives of early colonists

F Cahir, I Clark, P Clarke - 2018 - books.google.com
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal
changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire …

Seeking knowledge of traditional Indigenous burning practices to inform regional bushfire management

DK Bardsley, TAA Prowse, C Siegfriedt - Local environment, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A transdisciplinary review of the current academic knowledge of Indigenous
traditional fire management is presented for the Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia. For a …

[PDF][PDF] Queensland's Regional Ecosystems. Building and maintaining a biodiversity inventory, planning framework and information system for Queensland

VJ Neldner, DW Butler, GP Guymer… - … and Innovation, PO …, 2017 - researchgate.net
The Queensland Herbarium has a long history of vegetation survey and mapping dating
back to 1946 with botanical involvement in multi-disciplinary land system surveys, and then …

Reduced fire frequency over three decades hastens loss of the grassy forest habitat of an endangered songbird

ZL Stone, M Maron, E Tasker - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Fire plays an important role in maintaining grassy forests, and reduced fire frequency has
been linked to encroachment of woody plants into grassy forests and woodlands globally. In …

Rainforest expansion reduces understorey plant diversity and density in open forest of eastern Australia

AG Baker, C Catterall, K Benkendorff… - Austral …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The expansion of rainforest pioneer trees into long‐unburnt open forests has become
increasingly widespread across high rainfall regions of Australia. Increasing tree cover can …

Aboriginal people and Australia's vegetation: past and current interactions

E Ens, FIA WAlsh, P ClArkE - Australian vegetation, 2017 - books.google.com
Plants have had significant and multiple roles in past and present Aboriginal people's lives.
Aboriginal people extracted the food, medicine and material resources they needed from …

Cause and effects of a megafire in sedge-heathland in the Tasmanian temperate wilderness

BJ French, LD Prior, GJ Williamson… - Australian Journal of …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
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 …