Wildfires are impactful natural disasters, creating a significant impact across many rural communities. Predicting wildfire probability provides authorities with invaluable information to take preventive measures at the early stages. This study establishes Bayesian modelling for predicting the...
Author(s)
Charizanos, G.; Demirhan, H.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Ecological Informatics, 2023, 73,
Background: When fire intervals are shorter than the time required for plants to reproduce, plant populations are threatened by "immaturity risk." Therefore, understanding how the time between fires influences plants can inform ecosystem management. Quantifying periods of immaturity risk requires...
Author(s)
Plumanns-Pouton, E. S.; Swan, M. H.; Penman, T. D.; Collins, L.; Kelly, L. T.
Publisher
SpringerOpen, New York, USA
Citation
Fire Ecology, 2023, 19, 25, pp (24 April 2023)
The Australian 2019-2020 wildfires impacted the subtropical rainforest with a variety of burn severities, making them vulnerable to another burn. Rainforest post-fire regenerated vegetation could be highly flammable, containing fire-promoting species such as Lantana camara and fire-suppressing...
Author(s)
Ross, T.; Srivastava, S. K.; Shapcott, A.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Forests, 2023, 14, 2,
Background: Wildfires cause significant physical and mental ill-health. How physical and mental symptoms interact following wildfire smoke exposure is unclear, particularly in the context of repeated exposures. In this cross-sectional study we investigated how posttraumatic stress and general...
Author(s)
Gao, C. X.; Menssink, J.; Campbell, T. C. H.; Smith, C. L.; Ikin, J. F.; Lane, T.; Abramson, M. J.; Carroll, M.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 1573, pp (18 August 2023)
Climate change is real and here. Climate change has a wide range of effects on the environment - increasing global temperatures and extreme weather events, which in turn are impacting human health. Changes in weather and man-made pollution affect the quality of the air we breathe, the water we...
Author(s)
Teasdale, N.; Panegyres, P. K.
Publisher
Elsevier Masson SAS, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Citation
The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2023, 12,
Fire is a major evolutionary and ecological driver that shapes biodiversity in forests. While above-ground community responses to fire have been well-documented, those below-ground are much less understood. However, below-ground communities, including fungi, play key roles in forests and facilitate ...
Author(s)
Bowd, E. J.; Egidi, E.; Lindenmayer, D. B.; Wardle, D. A.; Kardol, P.; Foster, C.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Molecular Ecology, 2023, 32, 15, pp 4181-4198
A wildfire, an unplanned fire that is mainly uncontrolled and originates in combustible vegetation in rural or urban settings, is one of the most pervasive natural catastrophes in some areas, such as Siberia, California and Australia. Many studies, such as standard reviews, have been undertaken to...
Author(s)
Haque, K. M. S.; Minhaz Uddin; Ampah, J. D.; Haque, M. K.; Hossen, M. S.; Rokonuzzaman, M.; Hossain, M. Y.; Hossain, M. S.; Rahman, M. Z.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023, 30, 29, pp 73061-73086
Introduction: The war in Ukraine is causing significant disruption to global agri-food systems, which are still recovering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Australia, these global shocks followed a series of localized climate-induced crises from forest fires, floods and drought. There...
Author(s)
Murphy, M.; Carey, R.; Alexandra, L.
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023, 7, March,
Plants in fire-prone ecosystems have evolved a variety of mechanisms to resist or adapt to fire. Post-fire resprouting is a key adaptation that promotes rapid ecosystem recovery and hence has a major impact on the terrestrial carbon cycle. However, our understanding of how the incidence of...
Author(s)
Shen YiCheng; Cai WenJia; Prentice, I. C.; Harrison, S. P.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Forests, 2023, 14, 5,
Studies investigating treelines in the Southern Hemisphere are underrepresented in the global literature, with a strong bias towards Northern Hemisphere treelines. Treelines in the Southern Hemisphere are often very different in terms of species composition, climate, and factors limiting their...
Author(s)
Hansson, A.; Shulmeister, J.; Dargusch, P.; Hill, G.
Publisher
Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023, 332,