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Altered fire regimes
2016 Report Content The
Land
report describes how fire frequencies have increased in Australia during the past decade. Alteration in fire regimes is considered a major threat that has contributed to the ... al. 2011 ). A recent review concluded that the current fire regime in northern Australia is suboptimal for many bird species , especially ...
Box ATM3 Fire weather
2016 , Case Study Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the world. The fire season is distinctly different across the continent, occurring during the ... middle to late summer in southern regions. The potential for fire at any given location or time is dependent on the availability and dryness ...
The cumulative impact of multiple pressures and the interactions between them amplify the threat faced by biodiversity
2016 Key Finding...
Interactions between pressures such as changed fire regimes, invasive species and changing land use have contributed to ...
Reducing the impact of feral predators is an essential action for the conservation of Australian fauna
2016 Key Finding... Australia. The interaction between feral cat predation and fire regimes is now known to be particularly important in driving negative ...
Box HER26 Using traditional fire knowledge
2016 Case Study... with traditional owners to revive the use of traditional fire knowledge as a land management tool. The aim is to reduce fuel loads and ... talking at Landcare events, participating in an Indigenous fire forum in 2013 and talking to the local Aboriginal community . In 2013, the ...
Box ATM14 Hazelwood mine fire
2016 , Case Study... Gippsland and other parts of the Latrobe Valley ignited a fire within an unused part of the Hazelwood open-cut coalmine in Victoria. The fire spread rapidly and extensively under strong south-westerly winds, causing ...
Box HER8 Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area fires in 2016
2016 Case Study... fires. Bare ground remains for half a century or more after fire, only decreasing once mammalian herbivores are excluded ( Kirkpatrick & ... which makes this community very vulnerable to changing fire frequency. Fires caused by increased ignitions from lightning and ...
Figure LAN4 National fire return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015
2016 Map Figure LAN4 National fire return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015
soe2016_lan_fig4_national_fire_frequency.png Interact with map Download as png Download dataset Source: ... Information Authority (Landgate) 2016 Figure LAN4 National fire return frequency for Australia, 1988–2015 Regional and landscape-scale ...
Box ATM7 West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project
2016 , Case Study... century, Indigenous people practised a complex pattern of fire management to encourage new growth, to help with hunting, to protect ... Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) established the West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (WALFA) project to engage Indigenous landowners to reintroduce ...
Figure ATM23a Trends in extreme fire-weather days (annual 90th percentile of daily Forest Fire Danger Index values) at 38 climate reference sites
2016 , Map Figure ATM23a Trends in extreme fire-weather days (annual 90th percentile of daily Forest Fire Danger Index values) at 38 climate reference sites
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Pressures on the environment can interact and accumulate in various ways
2016 Report Content... comes from a combination of predation by feral cats, fire and grazing. Both fire and grazing regimes in northern Australia have intensified substantially ...
Figure ATM23b Timeseries of the annual cumulative Forest Fire Danger Index at Melbourne Airport
2016 , Graph Figure ATM23b Timeseries of the annual cumulative Forest Fire Danger Index at Melbourne Airport
Timeseries of the annual cumulative Forest Fire Danger Index at Melbourne Airport
Timeseries of the annual cumulative ...
Figure ATM40a Hourly carbon monoxide concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire
2016 , Graph... monoxide concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire
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Hourly carbon monoxide concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire
Hourly carbon monoxide concentrations measured during the Hazelwood ...
Jurisdictional reporting on pressures
2016 Report Content... loss and modification, pest plants and animals, and altered fire regimes. Connectivity is being lost through developments such as the ... , or the abundance and distribution of weed species . Fire: status—low; trend—stable; confidence—limited. The uncertainty comes ...
Australia’s heritage remains vulnerable to both natural and anthropogenic threats
2016 Key Finding... be affected by invasive species, loss of habitat and altered fire regimes. Economic growth creates pressures for redevelopment and resources ...
Box LAN14 Weeds, feral animals, fire and research at Wattleridge and Tarriwa Kurrukun Indigenous Protected Areas, New South Wales
2016 Case Study... a week. The Banbai community is also interested to see how fire affects weeds and feral animals
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‘I think it would be interesting ... and scientific knowledge to consider the effects that fire has on the environment. Owning and managing Wattleridge and Tarriwa ...
Interactions among pressures
2016 Report Content... in the absence of cats, native mammals are able to survive fire and continue to find food. In addition, cats forage less effectively in ... buffalo) and the magnitude of small mammal decline . Both fire and grazing regimes in northern Australia have intensified substantially ...
Pressures affecting biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glance... of habitat; invasive species; climate change; changed fire regimes; grazing; and changed hydrology. Most of these exert a high to ... and composition, phenology (timing of lifecycle events), fire regimes and hydrology. Climate variability and climate change are also ...
Pressures affecting biodiversity
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... facing aquatic ecosystems Changed hydrology Altered fire regimes Pest species and pathogens Pressures from livestock production ... Jurisdictional reports note extreme weather—including fire, drought, cyclones and flood—as having increasingly pervasive impacts on ...
Rainfall
2016 , Report Content... Clarke H, Lucas C & Smith P (2013). Changes in Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2010. International Journal of Climatology 33(4):931–944. Lucas C (2010). On developing a historical fire weather data-set for Australia. Australian Meteorological and ...
Figure ATM40b Pollutant concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire: (a) hourly carbon monoxide; (b) 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5)
2016 , Graph... concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire: (a) hourly carbon monoxide; (b) 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) ... (PM2.5) concentrations measured during the Hazelwood mine fire, 2014
Daily particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations measured during ...
Climate change
2016 Report Content... significantly, rainfall regimes have altered, and extreme fire and weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity (see ... significantly, rainfall regimes have altered, and extreme fire and weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity (see ‘ ...
Resilience of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glance... in equilibrium with the climate and natural disturbance regime. Land management activities disturb that equilibrium. Although we may ... values after major disturbances such as clearing, flood or fire. ...
Changing land use and management
2016 Report Content... pressures on tropical aquatic ecosystems arising from fire regime changes from cool early-season burns to hot late-season burns. Box WAT3 ...
Pressures affecting the land environment 2016
2016 At a glance... systems. These pressures and drivers interact—for example, fire regimes are influenced by both climate change, and changing patterns of ... soil erosion and biodiversity persistence altered fire frequency and intensity, and the extent of both bushfires and managed ...
Risks to biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glance... risks such as invasive species, climate change and changing fire regimes, and the interactions between these risks, will continue to exert ... such as fragmentation of habitat, climate change, altered fire regimes and invasive species. In addition to these known threats, the ...
Human capital
2016 Report Content... benefits of genetically modified organisms, management of fire in naturally flammable vegetation types). The trend for people, ... uncertain beyond 2018. Box LAN14 Weeds, feral animals, fire and research at Wattleridge and Tarriwa Kurrukun Indigenous Protected ...
Understanding
2016 Report Content... the listed values of National Heritage places. Unplanned fire and exposure to the elements, including erosion and corrosion, also pose ... Altered bushfire management (see Box HER26 , and ‘ Fire regimes ’ in the
Biodiversity
report ), active erosion control, ...
Risks to inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... in developing Australia’s north include surface-water regime change, surface-water pollution, groundwater extraction, seawater ... Urbanisation leading to loss of wetland habitat Changes in fire frequency or intensity Salinisation or contamination of groundwater or ...
Pressures affecting the environment
2016 At a glance... pressures on the Australian environment, including altered fire regimes, overuse of species and habitats, ocean acidification, pollution ...
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