At the smaller plot scale, the extent of the burn was influenced by the neighbourhood burn patterns, the distance the plot was from the nearest drainage line, the time since the last fire and the percentage of the plot that was burnt in the last fire. Under operational conditions, sites ...
A prescribed burn, also referred to as a ‘controlled burn’ or ‘hazard reduction burn’, involves intentional application of fire to a selected area, under suitable weather conditions, to promote resource or ecological management outcomes (Fernandes and Botelho,2003; Mason and Lashley,2021). The...
Of the ten individual species modelled, only one (White-throated Treecreeper) showed a significant burn-severity response, declining in the second year to a greater extent after severe burns than after moderate burns. We Conclusion More of the landscape across Australia is being burnt to a ...
Intervals between prescribed fires in Australia: what intrinsic variation should apply? Biol Conserv. 1998;85(1–2):161–9. 79. Keeley JE. Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage. Int J Wildland Fire. 2009;18(1):116–26. 80. Haddaway N, ...
Required knowledge of fire behavior used in prescribed burning often deviates from wildfires in that (1) prescribed fires are usually planned for a pre-defined burn unit and ecosystem; (2) the presence of multiple interacting firelines is nearly always critical to achieve objectives; and (3) man...
(Moran’sI = 0.029;P = 0.005), choice to enroll in burn program (Moran’sI = 0.066;P < 0.001); and prescribed fire use (Moran’sI = 0.121;P < 0.001). This means the clustering of landowner opinions, when evaluated at a county level, is significantly ...
(MACA) are available at:https://www.climatologylab.org/maca.html. New data created as part of this analysis, including gridded RxDay counts and documents describing all real-world burn plans used in defining the RxDay composite metric, are publicly archived on Zenodo and can be accessed at...
and heterogeneity was ubiquitous. Prescribed burning had significant positive effects on vascular plant richness, non-native vascular plant richness, and in broadleaf forests, herbaceous plant richness. Time since the burn, forest type and climate zone were significant moderators predicting the effect of...
Plant species richness and diversity, especially of herbs, can increase and then rapidly return to pre-burn values, as in P. canariensis (Arévalo et al., 2014a, b), but the usual finding is the absence of significant changes, e.g. in P. pinaster (Rego et al., 1991) and P. hale...
Specifically, in large areas of Australia, North America, the Mediterranean Basin or South Africa, many plant communities depend on regular burning to persist. However in temperate Europe, fire is not a natural disturbance. Stratified charcoal records from Europe show that there was very little ...