Short-term impacts of the 2019–20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia

Owen F. Price; Katarina Mikac; Nicholas Wilson; Bridget Roberts; Romane Cristescu; Rachael Gallagher; Justin Mallee; Paul Donatiou; Jonathon Webb; David A. Keith; Michael Letnic; Berin D.W. Mackenzie

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Short-term impacts of the 2019–20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia

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Short-term impacts of the 2019–20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia

Owen F. Price, Katarina Mikac, Nicholas Wilson, Bridget Roberts, Romane Cristescu, Rachael Gallagher, Justin Mallee, Paul Donatiou, Jonathon Webb, David A. Keith, …

Austral Ecology, Vol.48(1), pp.3-11

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13247

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black summer bushfire

ESA symposium

fire recovery

To address uncertainties surrounding the impacts of unprecedented 2019 to 20 bushfires in south eastern Australia, we convened a symposium on field measured impacts on biodiversity for the 2020 Ecological Society of Australia conference. Nine presentations covered a range of studies on plant species and communities, and reptiles and mammals. Here, we summarize the presentations and review other field studies from NSW, some of which are currently unpublished. The impacts were extensive, but results also estimated survival rate perhaps higher than first reported in the media. More than half of individual mammal, reptile and threatened rainforest trees may have survived the fire, though small populations remain very vulnerable to second fire in the near future. Comprehensive understanding of the impacts of these fires requires much more field study, and for the results to be interpreted in the context of the broader fire regime. The symposium was an important early step in that understanding.

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Title: Short-term impacts of the 2019–20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia
Authors: Owen F. Price (Corresponding Author) - University of Wollongong
Katarina Mikac (Author) - University of Wollongong
Nicholas Wilson (Author) - University of Wollongong
Bridget Roberts (Author) - University of Wollongong
Romane Cristescu (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Rachael Gallagher (Author) - Western Sydney University
Justin Mallee (Author) - National Parks and Wildlife Service
Paul Donatiou (Author) - Healthy Land and Water
Jonathon Webb (Author) - University of Technology Sydney
David A. Keith (Author) - UNSW Sydney
Michael Letnic (Author) - UNSW Sydney
Berin D.W. Mackenzie (Author) - UNSW Sydney
Publication details: Austral Ecology, Vol.48(1), pp.3-11
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.1111/aec.13247
ISSN: 1442-9993; 1442-9985
Copyright note: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2022 The Authors. Austral Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Ecological Society of Australia.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99681395402621
Output Type: Journal article

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