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High-severity wildfires in temperate Australian forests have increased in extent and aggregation in recent decades by Tran, Bang Nguyen, Tanase, Mihai A, Bennett, Lauren T, Aponte, Cristina

“…Wildfires have increased in size and frequency in recent decades in many biomes, but have they also become more severe? This question remains under-examined…”
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Evaluation of Spectral Indices for Assessing Fire Severity in Australian Temperate Forests by Tran, Bang, Tanase, Mihai, Bennett, Lauren, Aponte, Cristina

“…Spectral indices derived from optical remote sensing data have been widely used for fire-severity classification in forests from local to global scales…”
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Effects of inhomogeneities within the flux footprint on the interpretation of seasonal, annual, and interannual ecosystem carbon exchange by Griebel, Anne, Bennett, Lauren T., Metzen, Daniel, Cleverly, James, Burba, George, Arndt, Stefan K.

“…•Flux tower sites often experience inhomogeneous surface characteristics.•CO2 fluxes are affected by variable climatic conditions with wind direction.•Carbon…”
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Assessing Legacy Effects of Wildfires on the Crown Structure of Fire-Tolerant Eucalypt Trees Using Airborne LiDAR Data by Karna, Yogendra K., Penman, Trent D., Aponte, Cristina, Bennett, Lauren T.

“…The fire-tolerant eucalypt forests of south eastern Australia are assumed to fully recover from even the most intense fires; however, surprisingly, very few…”
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Predictive Ecosystem Mapping of South-Eastern Australian Temperate Forests Using Lidar-Derived Structural Profiles and Species Distribution Models by Fedrigo, Melissa, Stewart, Stephen B., Roxburgh, Stephen H., Kasel, Sabine, Bennett, Lauren T., Vickers, Helen, Nitschke, Craig R.

“…Modern approaches to predictive ecosystem mapping (PEM) have not thoroughly explored the use of ‘characteristic’ gradients, which describe vegetation structure…”
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Species and Competition Interact to Influence Seasonal Stem Growth in Temperate Eucalypts by Ella Plumanns-Pouton, Lauren T. Bennett, Julio C. Najera-Umaña, Anne Griebel, Nina Hinko-Najera

“…Insights on tree species and competition effects on seasonal stem growth are critical to understanding the impacts of changing climates on tree productivity,…”
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Site-Level Modelling Comparison of Carbon Capture by Mixed-Species Forest and Woodland Reforestation in Australia by Koen Kramer, Lauren T. Bennett, Remi Borelle, Patrick Byrne, Paul Dettman, Jacqueline R. England, Hielke Heida, Ysbrand Galama, Josephine Haas, Marco van der Heijden, Anna Pykoulas, Rodney Keenan, Vithya Krishnan, Helena Lindorff, Keryn I. Paul, Veronica Nooijen, Jeroen van Veen, Quinten Versmissen, Arnout Asjes

“…Large areas of Australia’s natural woodlands have been cleared over the last two centuries, and remaining woodlands have experienced degradation from human…”
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Short-interval wildfires increase likelihood of resprouting failure in fire-tolerant trees by Fairman, Thomas A., Bennett, Lauren T., Nitschke, Craig R.

“…Epicormic and basal resprouting promote tree survival and persistence in fire-prone regions worldwide. However, little is known about limits to resprouting…”
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Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes: A Spatially Explicit Approach to Support Sustainable Soil Management by Bennett, Lauren T., Wallace, D. Dugal, MacEwan, Richard J., Crossman, Neville D., Forouzangohar, Mohsen

“…Soil degradation has been associated with a lack of adequate consideration of soil ecosystem services. We demonstrate a broadly applicable method for mapping…”
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Mortality and recruitment of fire-tolerant eucalypts as influenced by wildfire severity and recent prescribed fire by Bennett, Lauren T., Bruce, Matthew J., MacHunter, Josephine, Kohout, Michele, Tanase, Mihai A., Aponte, Cristina

“…[Display omitted] •Mortalities of fire-tolerant eucalypts increased after high-severity wildfire.•Near loss of 10 to 20-cm diameter cohort after high-severity…”
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Financial Mechanisms to Improve the Supply of Ecosystem Services from Privately-Owned Australian Native Forests by Ian Ferguson, Laura Levetan, Neville D. Crossman, Lauren T. Bennett

“…Much of Australia’s native forest is privately-owned and is needing investment to maintain and improve the supply of a wide range of ecosystem services. This…”
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Frequent wildfires erode tree persistence and alter stand structure and initial composition of a fire-tolerant sub-alpine forest by Fairman, Thomas A., Bennett, Lauren T., Tupper, Shauna, Nitschke, Craig R.

“…Question: Frequent severe wildfires have the potential to alter the structure and composition of forests in temperate biomes. While temperate forests dominated…”
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The fuel–climate–fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change? by McColl‐Gausden, Sarah C., Bennett, Lauren T., Clarke, Hamish G., Ababei, Dan A., Penman, Trent D.

“…Fire regimes are changing across the globe in response to complex interactions between climate, fuel, and fire across space and time. Despite these complex…”
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Variable influence of photosynthetic thermal acclimation on future carbon uptake in Australian wooded ecosystems under climate change by Bennett, Alison C., Knauer, Jürgen, Bennett, Lauren T., Haverd, Vanessa, Arndt, Stefan K.

“…Climate change will impact gross primary productivity (GPP), net primary productivity (NPP), and carbon storage in wooded ecosystems. The extent of change will…”
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Can green firebreaks help balance biodiversity, carbon storage and wildfire risk? by Marshall, Erica, Holyland, Brendan, Parkins, Kate, Raulings, Elisa, Good, Megan K., Swan, Matthew, Bennett, Lauren T., Penman, Trent D.

“…Green firebreaks (strategically placed plantings of low-flammability vegetation) are designed to reduce the rate of fire spread and thereby increase the…”
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Climate more important than soils for predicting forest biomass at the continental scale by Bennett, Alison C., Penman, Trent D., Arndt, Stefan K., Roxburgh, Stephen H., Bennett, Lauren T.

“…Above‐ground biomass in forests is critical to the global carbon cycle as it stores and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. Climate change will disrupt the…”
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Trees use more non-structural carbohydrate reserves during epicormic than basal resprouting by Smith, Merryn G, Arndt, Stefan K, Miller, Rebecca E, Kasel, Sabine, Bennett, Lauren T

“…Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are crucial to support tree resprouting after disturbances that damage the crown or stem. Epicormic resprouting (from stem)…”
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Repeated prescribed fires decrease stocks and change attributes of coarse woody debris in a temperate eucalypt forest by Aponte, Cristina, Tolhurst, Kevin G, Bennett, Lauren T

“…Previous studies have found negligible effects of single prescribed fires on coarse woody debris (CWD), but the cumulative effects of repeated low-intensity…”
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Environmental heterogeneity promotes floristic turnover in temperate forests of south-eastern Australia more than dispersal limitation and disturbance by Kasel, Sabine, Bennett, Lauren T., Aponte, Cristina, Fedrigo, Melissa, Nitschke, Craig R.

“…Context Australia’s temperate forest landscapes encompass broad topographic and edaphic ranges, and are regularly disturbed by fire. Nonetheless, relative…”
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Evaluating long-term effects of prescribed fire regimes on carbon stocks in a temperate eucalypt forest by Bennett, Lauren T., Aponte, Cristina, Baker, Thomas G., Tolhurst, Kevin G.

“…•Long-term experiment of repeated prescribed fires in mixed-species eucalypt forest.•Significantly greater total C stocks in control than prescribed fire…”
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