Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation

Richard J. Williams; Ross A. Bradstock; Damian Barrett; Jason Beringer; Matthias M. Boer; Geoffrey J. Cary; Garry D. Cook; A. Malcolm Gill; Lindsay B. Hutley; Heather Keith; Stefan W. Maier; C. P. (Mick) Meyer; Owen Price; Stephen H. Roxburgh; Jeremy Russell-Smith

Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation

Richard J. Williams, Ross A. Bradstock, Damian Barrett, Jason Beringer, Matthias M. Boer, Geoffrey J. Cary, Garry D. Cook, A. Malcolm Gill, Lindsay B. Hutley, Heather Keith, Stefan W. Maier, C. P. (Mick) Meyer, Owen Price, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Jeremy Russell-Smith

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

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Abstract

Fires regularly affect many of the world's terrestrial ecosystems, and, as a result, fires mediate the exchange of greenhouse gases (GHG) between the land and the atmosphere at a global scale and affect the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to store carbon (Bowman et al. 2009). Variations in fire regimes can therefore potentially affect the global, regional and local carbon balance and, potentially, climate change itself (Bonan 2008). Here we examine how variation in fire regimes (Gill 1975; Bradstock et al. 2002) will potentially affect carbon in fire-prone Australian ecosystems via interactions with the stocks and transfers of carbon that are inherent to all terrestrial ecosystems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World
Editors	Ross A. Bradstock, A. Malcolm Gill, Richard J. Williams
Place of Publication	Melbourne, Vic.
Publisher	CSIRO
Pages	273-292
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9780643104822
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

prescribed burning
fire management
greenhouse effect, atmospheric
forest fires
greenhouse gases
carbon emissions

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Williams, R. J., Bradstock, R. A., Barrett, D., Beringer, J., Boer, M. M., Cary, G. J., Cook, G. D., Gill, A. M., Hutley, L. B., Keith, H., Maier, S. W., Meyer, C. P., Price, O., Roxburgh, S. H., & Russell-Smith, J. (2012). Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation. In R. A. Bradstock, A. M. Gill, & R. J. Williams (Eds.), Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World (pp. 273-292). CSIRO.

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Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation

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