Plant communities are largely reshaped by climate and the environment over millennia,
providing a powerful tool for understanding their response to future climates. Using a …

Interactions between rainforest plants and fire occur when fires encroach into rainforest and
when rainforest pioneers colonise fire-prone open forests. Although numerous studies show …

Fires in forested catchments are of great concern to catchment managers due to their
potential effect on water yield. Among other factors such as meteorological conditions and …

Forest fires have a great impact on the ecological environment. The government needs to
take measures to control forest fires. Forest fires are easily affected by wind speed and other …

We use case studies to explore the impact of changed fire regimes on vegetation structure
and fuel risk in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Multiple studies report high intensity …

Scope Currently knowledge is weak about which plant species boundaries are determined
directly by climate and soil factors, versus which are mediated by biotic interactions, such as …

Open eucalypt forests with a grassy understorey are becoming rare in the volcanic
landscapes on the Queensland-New South Wales border, as woody plants thicken with the …

Kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra) dominates many grassy ecosystems across Australia
where rainfall exceeds 500 mm per annum, though its abundance has diminished …

Recent Australian research investigating the potential links between climate change and the
scale, intensity and frequency of wildfires is convincingly showing that the frequency of …

The expansion of rainforest pioneer trees into long-unburnt open forests is a global
phenomenon and widely reported in high rainfall regions of Australia. However, impacts on …