Australia's Megafires Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons From 2019-2020
The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires affected many of Australia’s most important conserva...
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CSIRO Publishing
2023
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The 2019-20 Australianwildfires: precursors, characteristics and implications for the future
- 3. Impacts of wildfire on Indigenous cultural values
- 4. Consequences of the Australian 2019-20 wildfires for sites important for biodiversity and other World Heritage values
- 5. Wildfire effects on soils and soil processes
- 6. The impact of the 2019-20 Australian wildfires on aquatic systems
- 7. The impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on marine species and ecosystems
- 8. Ecological communities: impact and response
- 9. Blackened roots and green shoots: emerging trends in decline and recovery in Australian plant species after the 2019-20 wildfires
- 10. The impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on Australian fungi
- 11. Impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on Australian invertebrates
- 12. Estimating the number of wild animals affected by Australia's 2019-20 wildfires
- 13 The impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on Australian frogs
- 14. The impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on Australia's lizards and snakes
- 15. The impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on Australian birds
- 16. Impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on native mammals
- 17. How introduced animals compound the effects of fire on native plants and animals
- 18. The compounding impacts of disease and weeds after the 2019-20 wildfires on Australian vascular plants and communities
- 19. Interacting and compounding impacts: fire and forestry in the 2019-20 wildfires
- 20. Review of impacts of the 2019-20 wildfires on biodiversity
- 21. Prescribed burning in Australian forests: characteristics, impacts and effects
- 22. Response by the Australian Government to the 2019-20 wildfires
- 23. State agency responses to support biodiversity recovery following the 2019-20 wildfires.