Colonialism has disrupted Indigenous socioecological systems around the globe, including those supported by intentional landscape burning. Because most disruptions happened centuries ago, our understanding of Indigenous fire management is largely inferential and open to debate. Here, we investigate ...
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Bowman, D. M. J. S.; Williamson, G. J.; Johnston, F. H.; Bowman, C. J. W.; Murphy, B. P.; Roos, C. I.; Trauernicht, C.; Rostron, J.; Prior, L. D.
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Nature Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 5,
The development of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoclimate records in Australia is hindered by the scarcity of tree species suitable for conventional dendrochronology. However, novel analytical techniques have made it possible to obtain climate information from tree species that do not reliably...
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Goodwin, M. J.; Verdon-Kidd, D. C.; Hua Quan; English, N. B.; Haines, H. A.; Allen, K. J.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Global and Planetary Change, 2022, 208,
Untangling the nuanced relationships between landscape, fire disturbance, human agency, and climate is key to understanding rapid population declines of fire-sensitive plant species. Using multiple lines of evidence across temporal and spatial scales (vegetation survey, stand structure analysis, ...
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Holz, A.; Wood, S. W.; Ward, C.; Veblen, T. T.; Bowman, D. M. J. S.
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Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Global Change Biology, 2020, 26, 5, pp 3108-3121
Progress in quantitative wood anatomy has resulted in a growing number of increasingly understood proxies from the tree-ring archive. Much of this work has been based on tree species in the Northern Hemisphere. Here, we present and examine a relatively dense network of wood property chronologies...
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Allen, K. J.; Nichols, S. C.; Evans, R.; Baker, P. J.
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Elsevier GmbH, Munich, Germany
Citation
Dendrochronologia, 2022, 76,
Few annually dated stable isotope records exist across Oceania. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios have the potential to enhance climate reconstructions currently reliant on tree ring width chronologies. The purpose of this study is to explore the sources of variability in a stable oxygen...
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Grzywacz, Z.; Hessl, A.; Anchukaitis, K.; Sharma, S.; Evans, M. N.; Nichols, S.
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Elsevier GmbH, Munich, Germany
Citation
Dendrochronologia, 2022, 76,
Temporal stability of the relationship between a potential proxy climate record and the climate record itself is the foundation of palaeoproxy reconstructions of past climate variability. Dendroclimatologists have spent considerable effort exploring the issue of temporal instability of temperature...
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Allen, K. J.; Villalba, R.; Lavergne, A.; Palmer, J. G.; Cook, E. C.; Fenwick, P.; Drew, D. M.; Turney, C. S. M.; Baker, P. J.
Publisher
Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany
Citation
Dendrochronologia, 2018, 48, pp 52-73
To provide multi-centennial, annually-resolved records of climate for arid and semi-arid areas of Australia it is necessary to investigate the potential climate signals in tree species in this large region. Using a stable isotope and x-ray fluorescence approach to dendrochronology in Acacia...
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Witt, G. B.; English, N. B.; Balanzategui, D.; Hua Quan; Gadd, P.; Heijnis, H.; Bird, M. I.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Journal of Arid Environments, 2017, 136, pp 19-27
At the global scale, reconstructions of cool season temperature over past centuries are relatively rare. Here we present 277-year reconstructions of cool season (July-October) temperatures for southern Australia based on three different data sets: a spatial field reconstruction based on highly...
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Allen, K. J.; Anchukaitis, K. J.; Grose, M. G.; Lee, G.; Cook, E. R.; Risbey, J. S.; O'kane, T. J.; Monselesan, D.; O'grady, A.; Larsen, S.; Baker, P. J.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Climate Dynamics, 2019, 53, 1/2, pp 569-583
Dendroclimatology can be used to better understand past climate in regions such as Australia where instrumental and historical climate records are sparse and rarely extend beyond 100 years. Here we review 36 Australian dendroclimatic studies which cover the four major climate zones of Australia;...
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Haines, H. A.; Olley, J. M.; Kemp, J.; English, N. B.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Science of the Total Environment, 2016, 572, pp 412-421
We evaluate a range of blue intensity (BI) tree-ring parameters in eight conifer species (12 sites) from Tasmania and New Zealand for their dendroclimatic potential, and as surrogate wood anatomical proxies. Using a dataset of ca. 10-15 trees per site, we measured earlywood maximum blue intensity...
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Wilson, R.; Allen, K.; Baker, P.; Boswijk, G.; Buckley, B.; Cook, E.; D'Arrigo, R.; Druckenbrod, D.; Fowler, A.; Grandjean, M.; Krusic, P.; Palmer, J.
Publisher
Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Gottingen, Germany
Citation
Biogeosciences, 2021, 18, 24, pp 6393-6421