- Title:
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Using Statistics to Determine the Effectiveness of Prescribed Burning
- Date:
- April 2005
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Karen J. King
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Location:
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Australia,
ACT, Australia
Overview
Prescribed burning is an important tool for managing landscapes for both ecological values and people and property protection. Although widely used, the long-term effectiveness of prescribed burning in meeting management objectives is often difficult to determine. Recent work is using a computer simulation model, FIRESCAPE-SWTAS, to investigate the effectiveness of a range of prescribed burning treatments in reducing risks posed by unplanned fires using likelihood methods. Initial studies were conducted in the World Heritage Area in south-west Tasmania. This talk discusses the linking of ecological modelling and statistical methods in determining the effectiveness of a range of prescribed burning scenarios in meeting management objectives in this landscape, and the implications for future work.
