Science
A Burning Issue Forest Fires Make More Fires
A Burning Issue Forest Fires Make More Fires
7 August 2018 – Ecological Society of Australia
The most comprehensive analysis ever performed of fires in the Australian Alps has revealed that fire has made the forests more likely to burn. Frequent fire increases the risk of fire and of ecosystem collapse in mountain forests, which are highly vulnerable …
A Comparison Of Fuel Hazard In Recently Burned And Long Unburned Forests And Woodlands
A Comparison Of Fuel Hazard In Recently Burned And Long Unburned Forests And Woodlands
23 July 2018 – Kelly Dixon et al | CSIRO Publishing
Abstract
Fuel hazard is often assumed to increase with fuel age, or the time-since-fire. However, studies on fuel hazard in long-unburned forests are scarce. We measured overall fuel hazard in Eucalyptus forests and …
The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and responses published by the Australian Climate Commission, 2011
This relatively early, but in reality possibly too late, report assesses developments in the science of climate change, associated risks and implications of the science for emission reductions.
Policy Options for the World’s Primary Forests in Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Here are identified four new actions that would provide a solid policy foundation for key international negotiations, including forest-related multilateral environmental agreements, to help ensure that primary forests persist into the 21st Century:
(1) recognize primary forests as a matter of global concern within international negotiations
(2) incorporate primary forests into environmental accounting;
(3) prioritize the principle …
Green Carbon: Natural Forests in Carbon Storage
Part 1. A Green Carbon account of Australia’s south eastern eucalypt forests, and policy implications by Australia’s pre-eminent forest climate scientists
Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
Soils are Earth’s largest terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and their responsiveness to land use andmanagement make them appealing targetsfor strategies to enhance C sequestration. Numerous studies haveidentified practices that increase soil C, but their inferences are often based on limited data extrapolated over large areas. Here, we combine 15,000 observations from two national-level databases with remote sensing information to address …
Soils For Life focuses on capturing more rain through better land management
How do you capture every rain drop from the sky, how is it
possible and what difference would that make for our farmers?
The Soils For Life organisation is determined to work out how it can capture more rain for Australian farmers and the landscape.
Their work is based on the 100-drop scenario developed by a scientist called Walter …
Diverse forests tend to be healthier, more resilient: Study
Feb. 28 (UPI) — Previous studies showed more diverse tree stands to be
healthier and more productive than monoculture forests, but scientists
didn’t know why. New research suggests tree diversity lends a forest
adaptability, allowing it to maximize the sun’s energy.
Because different trees take on different forms, and can alter their shapes
in different ways, …
Clearing Our Rainfall Away
NEFA BACKGROUND PAPER
This review was initiated in response to the question “How do forests affect rainfall?”. In the process of reviewing the available scientific literature it became apparent that there is now an overwhelming abundance of evidence that deforestation has had a profound impact on regional climates, including in southern and eastern Australia, and a growing effect on global …
Flammability Dynamics In The Australian Alps – Study
Flammability Dynamics In The Australian Alps – Study
February 2018 – Philip Zylstra © 2018 Ecological Society of Australia
Abstract
Forests of the Australian Alps (SE Australia) are considered some of the most vulnerable to climate change in the country, with ecosystem collapse considered likely for some due to frequent fire. It is not yet known, however, …