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Bushfire CRC > Research > Managing Prescribed Fire in the Landscape > Impacts of Fire on Ecological Processes and Biodiversity

Presentations & Posters

Indirect effects of prescribed burning on the woody fruit production in Proteacea
Plummer, S.H. and Penman, T.D. [pdf 119.7 kb]


Does an Emergency Response Protect our Water Reserviors?
R. Morris, S. Calliss [pdf 5.7 Mb]


Program B - Rowena Morris.pdf
Does an Emergency Response Protect our Water Reservoirs? [pdf 1.3 Mb]


Controlling sediment movement following bushfire in 2007 at the Mount Bold Reservoir, South Australia
Rowena Morris [pdf 2.8 Mb]


Trent Penman
Soil temperatures during autumn prescribed burns: Are they sufficient to trigger germination in fire responsive species? [pdf 66.5 kb]


Perpetua Turner
Research in the wildfire chronosequence project [pdf 237.7 kb]


Anne Miehs
Do repeated fires negatively impact on fauna associated with coarse woody debris? A case study from south-western Victoria [pdf 206.8 kb]


Kerryn McTaggart
Untangling the effects of soil properties on methane oxidation [pdf 1.4 Mb]


Bevan McBeth
Fire and forest health at the bauple fire experiment [pdf 163.7 kb]


Fiona Christie
The effects of fire on invertebrate food web structure in buttongrass moorlands of Tasmania [pdf 807.7 kb]


Bryony Horton
Do fire and fungi help keep eucalypts healthy? [pdf 177.0 kb]


The effect of prescribed burning on sediment movement in the Mt Lofty Ranges.
Research poster for Bushfire Annual Conference [pdf 116.5 kb]


Madeleine Osborn, BCRC PhD Student
Fire, fungal richness and functional groups. [pdf 253.4 kb]


Alan York, Tina Bell, Kevin Tolhurst, Amanda Ashton, Anne Miehs (BCRC PhD Student), Tom Duff.
Ecological burning – Can we achieve both fuel management and conservation objectives. [pdf 240.2 kb]


Perpetua Turner, Gates, Pharo, Dalton, Browning
Wildfire chronosequence project. [pdf 92.6 kb]


Trent Penman, Kavanah, Binns
Patchiness of prescribed burns in dry sclerophyll forests in South Eastern Australia. [pdf 77.2 kb]


Presentations - External Links

No detectable impacts of frequent burning on foliar C and N or insect herbivory in an Australian eucalypt forest
Alan York, Fiona Christie

Ant community responses to experimental fire and logging in a eucalypt forest of south-eastern Australia
Andersen A, Penman T, Debas N, Houadria M

Patch-occupancy modeling as a method for monitoring changes in Forest Floristics: a case study on southeastern Australia
Penman T, Binnis D, Kavanagh R

Using fire to manage for invertebrate/fungal interactions and biodiversity
York, A. and Bell, T.L.

The effects of fire on invertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem processes
Brennan, K.

Fuel for thought: do litter dwelling invertebrates regulate fine fuel loads in frequently burnt eucalypt forests?”
Brennan, K., Christie, F. & York, A.

The effects of frequent burning on nutrient cycling and insect herbivory:
implications for forest health

Christie, F.

Fire management in a heating world: Potential issues and actions for commercial forest areas
Penman, T

Effect of forest management practices on understorey community composition in dry sclerophyll forests in south-eastern Australia
Penman, T., Binns, D, & Kavanagh, R.

Altered fire regimes: How resilient are invertebrates to change and what are the implications for biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem function?
York, A.

Effects of frequent fire on terrestrial invertebrates in an Australian eucalypt forest: Can active habitat management ameliorate impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem processes? (Abstract page 265)
York, A.

Forests, Fire and Ecological Processes - More than just good in theory
York A, Bell T, Christie F, Brennan K

The effects of fire on nitrogen loss from long unburnt fuels from a Eucalyptus pilularis forest
Aerts V

Book Chapters

Reports

Wildfire Chronosequence Project Establishment Report
Compiled by Perpetua Turner, University of Tasmania, with Forestry Tasmania. [pdf 3.5 Mb]


Journal Papers - External Links

Penman TD, Binns DL, Brassil TE, Shiels RJ, Allen RM (2009) Long-term changes in understorey vegetation in the absence of wildfire in south-east dry sclerophyll forests.  Australian Journal of Botany 57, 533–540.
 

Simplifying assessment of forest management practices for invertebrates: How effective are higher taxon and habitat surrogates for spiders following prescribed burning?
Brennan K.E.C., Ashby L., Majer J.D., Moir M.L. & Koch J.M.

Fire refugia; the mechanism governing animal survivorship in a highly flammable understory plant.
Moir, ML., Brennan, K.E.C and Wittkuhn, R,S. 

Spiders, spinifex, rainfall, and fire: long-term changes in an arid spider assemblage.
Langlands P., Brennan K.E.C. & Pearson D.

Soil temperatures during autumn prescribed burning: implications for the germination of fire responsive species?
Penman & Towerton

Observations of a response to smoke in the frog Litoria verreauxii.
Penman & Towerton

Quantifying successional changes in response to forest disturbance.
Penman, Binns and Kavanagh.

Changes in understorey plant species richness following logging and prescribed burning in shrubby dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia
Penman, T., Binns, D, Shiels, R., Allen, R. and Kavanagh, R.

Germination responses of a dry sclerophyll forest soil stored seed bank to fire related cues.
Penman T.D,  Binns, D.L.,  Allen R.M., Shiels R.J., and Plummer, S.H.

Global climate change and litter decomposition: more frequent fire slows decomposition and increases the functional importance of invertebrates
Brennan, K.E.C., Christie, F.J. & York, A.

Burning for biodiversity or burning the biodiversity
Penman, T.D., Binns, D.L. & Kavanagh, R.P.

A preliminary investigation into the potential impacts of fire on a forest dependent burrowing frong species
Penman, T.D., Lemckert F.L., Mahoney M.J.