An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and the non-living environment functioning as an integrated unit. Fire has an important role in all Australian natural ecosystems and can have major impacts on the short term and long term health of an ecosystem.
Research found in this topic examines the effect of fire on plant and animal species and the overall impact it has on a regions ecosystems.
Items in Ecosystems
- Mobile lab fills greenhouse-gas knowledge gap - March 2010
- Eucalypt Decline in the Absence of Fire - September 2009
- Historical Patterns of Bushfire in Southern Western Australia - November 2009
- Satellites Improve Grasslands Curing Assessment - May 2009
- Fire management of the high country: A critical review of the science - June 2009
- Forest Flammability: How Fire Works and What it Means for Fuel Control - December 2009
- Sediment Movement Following Prescribed Burning- A Comparison of Three Tecniques Including Visual Observation, Erosion Pins and Digital Close Range Photogrammetry - September 2008
- Different strokes for different folks: The challenge of managing fire regimes for whole of biodiversity conservation - September 2008
- The Distribution and Dynamics of Grass-Layer Plants in a Tropical Savanna: Results of the Territory Wildlife Park Fire Experiment in Northern Australia - September 2008
- Assessing the Effects of Contrasting Fire Intervals on Biodiversity at a Landscape Scale - September 2008
- Quantifying fuel loads & fire hazard in a wet sclerophyll community of SE Queensland, following invasion by the woody weed Lantana camara - September 2008
- Objective Characterisation of Fire Regimes for Science-based Management of Fire-prone Landscapes - September 2008
- The Environmental Impact of Fire Fighting Foams: Operational and legal implications - September 2008
- Decline in the Temperate Overstorey Eucalypts in the Absence of Fire - September 2008
- Burning under young eucalypts - September 2008
- Fire Frequency and Environmental Gradients - September 2008
- Fire and Biodiversity Conservation in the U.S.: Assessing Current Conditions and Predicting Future Trends - September 2008
- Balancing Fire Hazard Reduction and Resource Protection in an Era of Megafires - September 2008
- The Mallee Fire and Biodiversity Project - Gaining a Better Understanding of the needs of Fauna in Relation to Fire - September 2008
- Ecological Restoration Applications: Indigenous Burning Practices in Pacific Northwest, United States. - September 2008
- Untangling the effects of soil properties on methane oxidation - September 2008
- Fire and Cultural Resource Management: Aboriginal Wetland Burning in Kakadu National Park - September 2008
- The response of a snowgum (eucalyptus pauciflora) woodland to prescribed burning - September 2008
- Managing fire for biodiversity - May 2008
- Perceptions and evidence of pre-European fire in the Australian alps. - 2008
- Wildfire return intervals in semi-arid Southern Western Australia: Effects of fuel age and spatial structure - 2008
- Burning for biodiversity and cultural values in Kakadu - 2008
- Soil temperatures during autumn prescribed burns: Are they sufficient to trigger germination in fire responsive species? - 2008
- Untangling the effects of soil properties on methane oxidation - 2008
- Do repeated fires negatively impact on fauna associated with coarse woody debris? A case study from south-western Victoria - 2008
- Can ecological research address socio-political factors in fire management planning? - A case study in Western Australia - 2008
- Behind the flaming zone - 2008
- Do fire and fungi help keep eucalypts healthy? - 2008
- Wildfire return intervals in semi-arid Southern Werstern Australia: Effects of fuel age and spatial structure - 2008
- Without Fire: Ecophysiology of decline in the eucalypt overstorey - 2008
- Managing Forest after Fire - September 2007
- Determinants of fire severity in the Cotter River catchment, Canberra region. - November 2007
- Modelling Heating Effects in "Natural Disturbances in Ecology" - March 2007
- Bushfire weather climatology of the Haines Index in south-western Australia - March 2007
- Tree decline in the absence of fire - July 2007
- Eucalypt decline in the absence of fire - 2007
- A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires - 2007
- Reconstructing the Fire History of an Unmanaged Semi-arid Landscape: Lake Johnston Region, WA - 2007
- Fire Ecosystems and People: Threats and Strategies for Global Biodiversity Conservation - 2007
- Reconstructing the Fire History of an Unmanaged Semi-arid Landscape: Lake Johnston Region, WA - 2007
- Ecologically sustainable management of fire-prone landscapes in southern Australia: a complex systems point of view - October 2006
- Returning forests analyzed with the forest identity - November 2006
- Woody fuel consumption experiments in an undisturbed forest - November 2006
- Fire interval sequences to aid in site selection for biodiversity studies: mapping the fire regime - June 2006
- Burning for biodiversity - July 2006
- Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather. - January 2006
- The mortality of three dominant perennial grasses after fire in Australia’s tropical savannas. - 2006
- Physical properties determining flammability in scleophyllous leaves and flame propagation within shrubs and trees in the Australian alps. - 2006
- Changes to the grass layer after fire in a tropical savanna. - 2006
- Patchiness of prescribed burns in dry sclerophyll forests in South Eastern Australia. - 2006
- The effect of prescribed burning on sediment movement in the Mt Lofty Ranges. - 2006
- Using historical fire data to investigate patterns of biodiversity in South Western Australia. - 2006
- Bluegum Plantation Fire 23 March 2008 - Fire behaviour in a 6 year old Eucalyptus globulus plantation during conditions of extreme fire danger – a case study from south-western Australia - 2006
- Fire and vegetation patterns in semi-arid southern Western Australia. - 2006
- Living with Fire: Sustaining Ecosystems & Livelihoods through Integrated Fire Management - 2006
- Simulating prescribed burning treatment effectiveness at meeting multiple management objectives in south west Tasmania. - 2006
- Drying Out Vegetation - 2006
- Integrating fire management and biodiversity - October 2005
- Fitting ecological knowledge to remotely sensed long-term monitoring data: a framework from semi-arid grasslands of the Pilbara region of north-western Australia. - August 2005
- Self-organization of fire-prone landscape systems: concepts, models and field evidence. - August 2005
- Learning from the past - BCRC / AFAC 2005 poster - 2005
- A porous-medium model for vegetation in bushfires. - 2005
- Power-law Behaviour of Wildland Fires Reflects - 2005
- Project FuSE - A study of fire behaviour on steep slopes in heath and shrub forests - 2005
- A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics. - June 2004
- Fire and Victoria's parks and forests - February 2004
- Spatio-temporal dynamics of semi-arid grasslands: Quantifying ecosystem events. - 2004
- The Effects of Fire on Victorian Bushland Environments - 2004
- Effects of repeated low intensity fire on fuel dynamics in a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Ecological Effects of repeated low intensity fire in a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - Summary Report - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low intensity fire on reptile populations of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low-intensity fire on bird abundance in a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low-intensity fire on insectivorous bat populations of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Determination of sustainable fire regimes in the Victorian Alps using plant vital attributes - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low-intensity fire on terrestrial mammal populations of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low intensity fire on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the soils of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low-intensity fire on tree growth and bark in a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low intensity fire on the invertebrates of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Effects of repeated low intensity fire on the understorey of a mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia - December 2003
- Measuring responses to fire regimes in northern Australia - 2003
- The Ecotoxicity of Fire-Water Runoff. Part One: Literature Review - August 2001
- Aboriginal burning for cultral landscape management -
- Predicting factors affecting fire behaviour in heathland vegetation -
- Existing fire behaviour models under-predict the rate of spread of summer fires in open jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest. -
