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Population collapse of a Gondwanan conifer follows the loss of Indigenous fire regimes in a northern Australian savanna by Bowman, David M. J. S., Williamson, Grant J., Johnston, Fay H., Bowman, Clarence J. W., Murphy, Brett P., Roos, Christopher I., Trauernicht, Clay, Rostron, Joshua, Prior, Lynda D.

“…Colonialism has disrupted Indigenous socioecological systems around the globe, including those supported by intentional landscape burning. Because most…”
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Measurement of inter- and intra-annual variability of landscape fire activity at a continental scale: the Australian case by Williamson, Grant J, Prior, Lynda D, Jolly, W Matt, Cochrane, Mark A, Murphy, Brett P, Bowman, David M J S

“…Climate dynamics at diurnal, seasonal and inter-annual scales shape global fire activity, although difficulties of assembling reliable fire and meteorological…”
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Macroecology of Australian Tall Eucalypt Forests: Baseline Data from a Continental-Scale Permanent Plot Network by Wood, Sam W, Prior, Lynda D, Stephens, Helen C, Bowman, David M J S

“…Tracking the response of forest ecosystems to climate change demands large (≥1 ha) monitoring plots that are repeatedly measured over long time frames and…”
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Restoring landscape burning is compatible with conservation and livestock production in a southeast Australian grassland fragment by French, Ben J., Prior, Lynda D., Johnson, Christopher N., Leonard, Steven W. J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

“…Lowland grassland fragments in southeast Australia are valued for both sheep grazing and conservation. Many fragments are now rarely burnt, despite being…”
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Fire Cycles and the Spatial Pattern of the Scrub–Sedgeland Mosaic at Blakes Opening in Western Tasmania, Australia by Bowman, David M. J. S., Ondei, Stefania, Nichols, Scott C., Foyster, Scott M., Prior, Lynda D.

“…The cause of large areas of treeless Sedgeland and Scrub communities in western Tasmania, one of the wettest regions of Australia, has long puzzled ecologists,…”
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Fire weather risk differs across rain forest-savanna boundaries in the humid tropics of north-eastern Australia by LITTLE, JEREMY K., PRIOR, LYNDA D., WILLIAMSON, GRANT J., WILLIAMS, STEPHEN E., BOWMAN, DAVID M. J. S.

“…Alternative stable state theory has been applied to understanding the control by landscape fire activity of pyrophobic tropical rain forest and pyrophytic…”
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Demographic Effects of Severe Fire in Montane Shrubland on Tasmania’s Central Plateau by Foulkes, Judy A., Prior, Lynda D., Leonard, Steven W. J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

“…Australian montane sclerophyll shrubland vegetation is widely considered to be resilient to infrequent severe fire, but this may not be the case in Tasmania…”
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Population structures of the widespread Australian conifer Callitris columellaris are a bio-indicator of continental environmental change by Prior, Lynda D., McCaw, W. Lachlan, Grierson, Pauline F., Murphy, Brett P., Bowman, David M.J.S.

“…► C. columellaris is widespread across Australia but sensitive to fire and herbivory. ► There is evidence of a chronic recruitment deficit in much of the arid…”
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Environmental and demographic correlates of tree recruitment and mortality in north Australian savannas by Prior, Lynda D., Murphy, Brett P., Russell-Smith, Jeremy

“…Tropical savannas cover approximately 20% of the earth’s land area, and therefore represent an important carbon store. Under scenarios of future climate change…”
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Tree-piping termites and growth and survival of host trees in savanna woodland of north Australia by Werner, Patricia A., Prior, Lynda D.

“…Most trees in the eucalypt savannas of Australia have hollow cores, or pipes, caused by termite activity, yet little is known about their effect on tree growth…”
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Isolation and characterization of 52 polymorphic EST‐SSR markers for Callitris columellaris (Cupressaceae) by Sakaguchi, Shota, Uchiyama, Kentaro, Ueno, Saneyoshi, Ujino‐Ihara, Tokuko, Tsumura, Yoshihiko, Prior, Lynda D., Bowman, David M. J. S., Crisp, Michael D., Isagi, Yuji

“…•Premise of the study: We developed simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) for Callitris columellaris sensu lato (s.l.) to…”
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Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests by Bowman, David M. J. S., Murphy, Brett P., Neyland, Dominic L. J., Williamson, Grant J., Prior, Lynda D.

“…Obligate seeder trees requiring high‐severity fires to regenerate may be vulnerable to population collapse if fire frequency increases abruptly. We tested this…”
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Forest-sedgeland boundaries are historically stable and resilient to wildfire at Blakes Opening in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia by Bowman, David M. J. S., Ondei, Stefania, Lucieer, Arko, Foyster, Scott, Prior, Lynda D.

“…Context Treeless areas in forested landscapes are an enduring ecological puzzle globally. A fire-mediated alternative stable state (FMASS) model has been…”
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Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple by Bowman, David M.J.S, Brienen, Roel J.W, Gloor, Emanuel, Phillips, Oliver L, Prior, Lynda D

“…Tree biomass influences biogeochemical cycles, climate, and biodiversity across local to global scales. Understanding the environmental control of tree biomass…”
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Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world? by Johnson, Christopher N., Prior, Lynda D., Archibald, Sally, Poulos, Helen M., Barton, Andrew M., Williamson, Grant J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

“…Large vertebrates affect fire regimes in several ways: by consuming plant matter that would otherwise accumulate as fuel; by controlling and varying the…”
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Demography and growth of subadult savanna trees: interactions of life history, size, fire season, and grassy understory by Werner, Patricia A, Prior, Lynda D

“…Tree populations in mesic (>650 mm precipitation/yr) savannas of the world have strong demographic bottlenecks to the transition of subadult trees to the…”
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Biomass consumption by surface fires across Earth's most fire prone continent by Murphy, Brett P., Prior, Lynda D., Cochrane, Mark A., Williamson, Grant J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

“…Landscape fire is a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. Predicting biomass consumption by fire at large spatial scales is essential…”
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Bioclimatic drivers of fire severity across the Australian geographical range of giant Eucalyptus forests by Furlaud, James M., Prior, Lynda D., Williamson, Grant J., Bowman, David M. J. S., Battipaglia, Giovanna

“…The relationships between productivity, fire frequency and fire severity shape the distribution of plant communities globally. Dry forests are expected to burn…”
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The relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the decline of obligate seeder forests by Bowman, David M. J. S., Williamson, Grant J., Prior, Lynda D., Murphy, Brett P.

“…Forests that regenerate exclusively from seed following high-severity fire are particularly vulnerable to local extinction if fire frequency leaves…”
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Post‐fire restoration of Sphagnum bogs in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia by Prior, Lynda D., Nichols, Scott C., Williamson, Grant J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

“…Sphagnum bogs in Australia are small, with a limited distribution, but of high conservation value. They are restricted to cool, wet environments that are…”
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