- Title:
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Research in the Wildfire Chronosequence Project
- Date:
- August 2008
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- P. Turner; S. Grove; C. Airey
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Location:
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Australia,
TAS, Australia
Overview
The wildfire chronosequence project is a collaborative project between Forestry Tasmania and the University of Tasmania, with funding from the Bushfire CRC. Using a set of twelve permanent reference plots situated along a chronosequence in wet eucalypt forest of Southern Tasmania, the project aims to investigate successional changes in forest structure. There is a particular focus on how a single catastrophic wildfire affects structural diversity, physical processes (e.g. biomass accumulation, and nutrient cycling) and succession of biodiversity in wet eucalypt forest over a time scale measured in decades of centuries. This research aims to inform forestry and conservation by contributing to the development of better ways of managing structural complexity and fire-dependent biodiversity in the landscape.
