Tom Fairman

Limits to post-fire vegetation recovery under climate change.

Rachael H Nolan, Luke Collins, Andy Leigh, Mark KJ Ooi, Timothy J Curran, Thomas A Fairman, Victor Resco de Dios, Ross Bradstock

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant Cell Environ

Record-breaking fire seasons in many regions across the globe raise important questions about plant community responses to shiftin..

Fire, drought and productivity as drivers of dead wood biomass in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia

Jamie E Burton, Lauren T Bennett, Sabine Kasel, Craig R Nitschke, Mihai A Tanase, Thomas A Fairman, Linda Parker, Melissa Fedrigo, Cristina Aponte

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dead wood, including dead standing trees (DST) and coarse woody debris (CWD), is a critical component of forest ecosystems that pr..

Climate extreme variables generated using monthly time-series data improve predicted distributions of plant species

SB Stewart, J Elith, M Fedrigo, S Kasel, SH Roxburgh, LT Bennett, M Chick, T Fairman, S Leonard, M Kohout, JK Cripps, L Durkin, CR Nitschke

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOGRAPHY

Extreme weather can have significant impacts on plant species demography; however, most studies have focused on responses to a sin..

Responding to the biodiversity impacts of a megafire: A case study from south-eastern Australia’s Black Summer

WL Geary, A Buchan, T Allen, D Attard, MJ Bruce, L Collins, TE Ecker, TA Fairman, T Hollings, E Loeffler, A Muscatello, D Parkes, J Thomson, M White, E Kelly

Journal article  |  2021  |  Diversity and Distributions

Aim: Megafires are increasing in intensity and frequency globally. The impacts of megafires on biodiversity can be severe, so cons..

Refining benchmarks for soil organic carbon in Australia's temperate forests

Lauren T Bennett, Nina Hinko-Najera, Cristina Aponte, Craig R Nitschke, Thomas A Fairman, Melissa Fedrigo, Sabine Kasel

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEODERMA

Soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in Australia's temperate forests have been overlooked in national soil databases and in global SO..

Short-interval wildfires increase likelihood of resprouting failure in fire-tolerant trees

Thomas A Fairman, Lauren T Bennett, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Epicormic and basal resprouting promote tree survival and persistence in fire-prone regions worldwide. However, little is known ab..

Impacts of short-interval wildfires on tree demography and forest structure in temperate Australia

Thomas Alexander Fairman

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

Fire is a powerful agent of disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, and it shapes vegetation composition and patterns globally. Thi..

Mountain Ash: Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests D. Lindenmayer, D. Blair, L. McBurney and S. Banks. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, 2015. xxii 173 pp. Price $59.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781486304974 (also available as Eboo

Thomas A Fairman

Journal article  |  2017  |  Austral Ecology

Frequent wildfires erode tree persistence and alter stand structure and initial composition of a fire-tolerant sub-alpine forest

Thomas A Fairman, Lauren T Bennett, Shauna Tupper, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

QUESTION: Frequent severe wildfires have the potential to alter the structure and composition of forests in temperate biomes. Whil..

Too much, too soon? A review of the effects of increasing wildfire frequency on tree mortality and regeneration in temperate eucalypt forests

Thomas A Fairman, Craig R Nitschke, Lauren T Bennett

Journal article  |  2016  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

In temperate Australia, wildfires are predicted to be more frequent and severe under climate change. This could lead to marked cha..