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Managing Fires in southern Western Australia | Public Documents |

Presentations & Posters

document Influence of climate and fuels on wildfire frequency and extent in southern Western Australia
Alison O’Donnell, Lachie McCaw, Matthias Boar, Pauline Grieson [pdf 1.5 Mb]

document Program B - Matthias Boer.pdf
Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires - evidence of fifty years of active fire management in SW-WA [pdf 515.2 kb]

document Program B - Roy Wittkuhn.pdf
Planning fire intervals for biodiversity conservation [pdf 230.5 kb]

document Alison O'Donnell
Wildfire return intervals in semi-arid Southern Werstern Australia: Effects of fuel age and spatial structure [pdf 371.3 kb]

document Roy Wittkuhn
Can ecological research address socio-political factors in fire management planning? - A case study in Western Australia [pdf 167.5 kb]

document Lachlan McCaw and Bob Smith
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 [pdf 299.9 kb]

document Alison O'Donnell, Lachie McCaw, Mattias Boer, Li Shu. & Pauline Grierson
Reconstructing the Fire History of an Unmanaged Semi-arid Landscape: Lake Johnston Region, WA [pdf 3.5 Mb]

document Alison O’Donnell (BCRC PhD Student), Lachlan McCaw, Matthias Boer, Li Shu, Pauline Grierson
Fire and vegetation patterns in semi-arid southern Western Australia. [pdf 221.7 kb]

document R Whittkuhn, T Hamilton, L McCaw, C Carpenter and F Metcalfe
Using historical fire data to investigate patterns of biodiversity in South Western Australia. [pdf 83.4 kb]

document Learning from the past - BCRC / AFAC 2005 poster
The many uses of fire history mapping [pdf 67.8 kb]

document Integrating fire management and biodiversity
Presentation at Auckland conference [pdf 356.1 kb]

Journal Papers & Books - External Links

Existing fire behaviour models under-predict the rate of spread of summer fires in open jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest.
McCaw, W. L., Gould, J. S., Cheney, N. P.

Bushfire weather climatology of the Haines Index in south-western Australia
McCaw, L., Marchetti, P., Elliot, G. and Reader, G.

Managing smoke from wildfires and prescribed burning in southern Australia
Wain A, Mills G, McCaw L and Brown T.

Creation of a fire history database for southwestern Australia: giving old maps new life in a geographic information system
Hamilton T, Wittkuh RS aand Carpenter C

Dendroecological potential of Callitris preissii for dating fires in semi-arid shrublands of southern Western Australia (In Press)
O Donnell A, Cullen L, McCaw L, Boer M and Grierson P

Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy [Book Review]
McCaw, W.L.

Assessing the effects of contrasting fire intervals on biodiversity at a landscape scale
Wittkuhn R, McCaw L, Phelan G, Farr J, Liddelow G, van Heurck P, Wills A, Robinson R, Cranfield R, Fileder J, Dornan C and Andersen A

Quantifying the effectiveness of fuel management in modifying wildfire behaviour
McCaw L, Gould J & Cheney

Conference Papers - External Links

Fire interval sequences to aid in site selection for biodiversity studies: mapping the fire regime
Wittkuhn, R.S., Hamilton, T. and McCaw, L.

Mapping fire regimes of Western Australia in a GIS - viewing temporal data in a spatial context
Wittkuhn, R. S. and Hamilton, T.

Contribution of prescribed fire to the management of conservation lands and multiple-use forests in Western Australia
McCaw, L.

Reconstructing the fire history of an unmanaged semi-arid landscape: The Lake Johnson Region, Western Australia
O Donnell, A., McCaw, L., Boer, M., Grierson, P.

Documents & Reports

document Application of fire history records to contemporary management issues in south-west Australian forests
L. McCaw & T. Hamilton [pdf 906.3 kb]

document Historical patterns of bushfire in southern Western Australia
Issue 48: Understanding historical variation in bushfire patterns in southern Western Australia, to provide a baseline for future fire regime comparison. [pdf 196.4 kb]

document Managing fire for biodiversity
Update 25 - Using fire history data for biodiversity management in Western Australia. [pdf 124.8 kb]

document Retrospective measures of fire intensity for forested landscapes in southwestern Australia
Chloe Flaherty [pdf 800.3 kb]

document Retrospective measures of fire intensity using epicormic sprouting and sapling frequency in the southern jarrah forest of southwestern Australia
Ryan Burrows [pdf 577.2 kb]

document Studying fire regimes and biodiversity in southwestern Australia for improved land management
Roy Wittkuhn, Lachie McCaw [pdf 76.7 kb]