- Title:
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Fire Intervals and Biodiversity Responses in the Southwest of WA
- Date:
- August 2010
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Issue 64 - this research looked at fire history to determined the impact of different fire interval sequences upon biodiversity in the forests and shrublands of south-west Western Australia.
Overview
Prescribed fire is widely used in forest landscapes in south-west Western Australia (SWA) for a range of land management objectives including conservation of biodiversity, fuel reduction for mitigation of bushfires, and regeneration of areas after timber harvesting. Managers require knowledge of the ecological effects of fire in order to apply fire regimes that are consistent with these management objectives. However, there is limited information about how the biota responds to long-term fire management practices, especially at whole-ofcommunity level.
