Tom Fairman

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  |  2022  |  Diversity and Distributions

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

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..

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

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant, Cell & Environment

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 AND ENVIRONMENT

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..

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..

Surveys for leadbeater’s possum gymnobelideus leadbeateri at wallaby creek, kinglake national park, Victoria

AC Eyre, J Cripps, V Miritis, D Watchorn, K Ashman, P Burns, T Fairman, L Durkin, J Nelson, P Macak, L Lumsden, D Harley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Victorian Naturalist

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..