Lauren Bennett

Spatial Estimates of Future Fire Risk Considering Climate and Fuel Management for Conservation Planning

Erica Marshall, Sarah McColl-Gausden, Luke Collins, Lauren Bennett, Trent D Penman

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk

Biodiversity in Fire Risk Analysis: Response of Plant Viability to Demographic Shifts in Fire-Prone Australian Forests

Sarah McColl-Gausden, Lauren Bennett, Trent Penman

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  ICFBR 2022

The fuel-climate-fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change?

Sarah C McColl-Gausden, Lauren T Bennett, Hamish G Clarke, Dan A Ababei, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire regimes are changing across the globe in response to complex interactions between climate, fuel, and fire across space and ti..

Species and Competition Interact to Influence Seasonal Stem Growth in Temperate Eucalypts

Ella Plumanns-Pouton, Lauren T Bennett, Julio C Najera-Umana, Anne Griebel, Nina Hinko-Najera

Journal article  |  2022  |  FORESTS

Insights on tree species and competition effects on seasonal stem growth are critical to understanding the impacts of changing cli..

Characterising and managing fire risks to plantations under changing climates

Kate Parkins, Brett Cirulis, Lauren Bennett, Trent Penman

Book Chapter  |  2022

Wildfires are a common threat to the sustainability of commercial plantations in fire-prone regions. Large losses of plantations f..

Demographic processes and fire regimes interact to influence plant population trajectories under changing climates

Sarah McColl-Gausden, Lauren Bennett, Trent Penman

Book Chapter  |  2022

Fire regimes are changing around the world raising important questions about the risks to biodiversity. Fire seasons are lengtheni..

Carbon stocks and stability are diminished by short-interval wildfires in fire-tolerant eucalypt forests

Thomas A Fairman, Craig R Nitschke, Lauren T Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forests play a key role in mitigating global climate change through carbon storage and sequestration. Wildfire affects forest carb..

Improved accuracy of wildfire simulations using fuel hazard estimates based on environmental data

TD Penman, SC McColl-Gausden, BA Cirulis, D Kultaev, DA Ababei, LT Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Wildfire extent and their impacts are increasing around the world. Fire management agencies use fire behaviour simulation models o..

Future fire regimes increase risks to obligate-seeder forests

Sarah C McColl-Gausden, Lauren T Bennett, Dan A Ababei, Hamish G Clarke, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2021  |  DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Aim: Many species are adapted to a particular fire regime and major deviations from that regime may lead to localized extinction. ..

Thermal optima of gross primary productivity are closely aligned with mean air temperatures across Australian wooded ecosystems

Alison C Bennett, Stefan K Arndt, Lauren T Bennett, Jurgen Knauer, Jason Beringer, Anne Griebel, Nina Hinko-Najera, Michael J Liddell, Daniel Metzen, Elise Pendall, Richard P Silberstein, Timothy J Wardlaw, William Woodgate, Vanessa Haverd

Journal article  |  2021  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Gross primary productivity (GPP) of wooded ecosystems (forests and savannas) is central to the global carbon cycle, comprising 67%..