Their sensory and embodied memories of Gippsland bushfires in 2013 and the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires contributed to a new respect for nature. Rather than expressing a desire to leave these locations, many people described a renewed sense of home and connection, and new environmental ...
Time after a fire (i.e. time since disturbance) is often used to determine the ecosystem C balance in boreal forests (Seedre et al., 2011). Additionally, fire severity and the presence or absence of permafrost are defining factors for field studies within the fire discipline and interact wi...
As yet, relatively few studies have explicitly examined links between fire and wildlife disease or summarized their implications (but see Scasta2015). This sparsity is surprising, given that wildfires fulfill many of the requirements for potentially important disease drivers. Wildfires can profoundly sh...
While animals were severely impacted by the destruction of the past summer’s bushfires, a new study led by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that fauna may be an untapped resource to help manage bushland fuel loads. The study has found that animals act as ‘ecosystem engine...
Oysters are filter feeders, extracting nutrients from the water, so that makes them very susceptible to water pollution such as that from bushfires.
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Without action on climate change, extreme weather events such as the Black Summer bushfires are likely to become more common. The recent COP26 Conference in Glasgow made clear how urgent the situation is. Atmospheric CO2 continues to rise fast. Even with the best-case scenario – with full im...
Urban forests provide critical ecosystem services to humans, and, as in other systems, invertebrates are central to structuring and maintaining the functioning of urban forests. Identifying the role of invertebrates in urban forests can help elucidate their importance to practitioners and the public, ...
Devastating bushfires have beenspreading across Australiafor months, and they show no signs of slowing down. Millions of acres have burned, destroying about 2,000 homes and killing at least 25 people. It is estimated that more thanhalf a billion wild animalshave perished in the flames — a ...
"it’s not climate change that has caused today’s [bushfire] disaster, but the criminal negligence of governments that have tried to buy green votes by locking up vast tracts of land as national parks, yet failed to spend the money needed to control ground fuel and maintain fire trails ....