Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Aquatic ecosystem response to climate, fire, and the demise of montane rainforest, Tasmania, Australia

KK Beck, MS Fletcher, BB Wolfe, KM Saunders

Journal article  |  2023  |  Global and Planetary Change

The 2019/2020 southeast Australian fires ravaged the environment and threatened endemic vegetation groups, including the Tasmanian..

Contemporary Controls on Terrestrial Carbon Characteristics in Temperate and Sub-Tropical Australian Wetlands

A Francke, O Tsimosh, J Tibby, M Reid, MS Fletcher, JJ Tyler

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

A thorough understanding of controls over terrestrial sedimentary organic carbon characteristics in both the present and the past ..

The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia

Alice Laming, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Anthony Romano, Russell Mullett, Simon Connor, Michela Mariani, S Yoshi S Maezumi, Patricia Gadd

Journal article  |  2022  |  FIRE-SWITZERLAND

Protecting “wilderness” and removing human involvement in “nature” was a core pillar of the modern conservation movement through t..

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

Michela Mariani, Simon E Connor, Martin Theuerkauf, Annika Herbert, Petr Kunes, David Bowman, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head, A Peter Kershaw, Simon G Haberle, Janelle Stevenson, Matthew Adeleye, Haidee Cadd, Feli Hopf, Christy Briles

Journal article  |  2022  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad-scale questions about how the cessation of Indigenous b..

What do you mean, 'megafire'?

Grant D Linley, Chris J Jolly, Tim S Doherty, William L Geary, Dolors Armenteras, Claire M Belcher, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Andrea Duane, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Melisa A Giorgis, Angie Haslem, Gavin M Jones, Luke T Kelly, Calvin KF Lee, Rachael H Nolan, Catherine L Parr, Juli G Pausas, Jodi N Price, Adrian Regos, Euan G Ritchie, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Background: ‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or..

Chronostratigraphy of sediment cores from Lake Selina, southeastern Australia: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, paleomagnetism, authigenic beryllium isotopes and elemental data

Agathe Lise-Pronovost, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Quentin Simon, Zenobia Jacobs, Patricia S Gadd, Andy IR Herries, Yusuke Yokoyama, Aster Team

Journal article  |  2022  |  DATA IN BRIEF

This Data in Brief paper comprises dataset obtained for sediment cores collected from Lake Selina, located in the West Coast Range..

Monsoon driven ecosystem and landscape change in the 'Top End' of Australia during the past 35 kyr

Samuel K Marx, William Reynolds, Jan-Hendrik May, Matthew S Forbes, Nicola Stromsoe, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tim Cohen, Patrick Moss, Debashish Mazumder, Patricia Gadd

Journal article  |  2021  |  PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon (IASM) is the dominant climate feature of northern Australia, affecting rainfall/runoff pattern..

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Rebecca Hamilton, Wolfram Dressler, Lisa Palmer

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Thi..

Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Joel Pedro, Tegan Hall, Michela Mariani, Joseph A Alexander, Kristen Beck, Maarten Blaauw, Dominic A Hodgson, Henk Heijnis, Patricia S Gadd, Agathe Lise-Pronovost

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Inter-hemispheric asynchrony of climate change through the last deglaciation has been theoretically linked to latitudinal shifts i..

Catastrophic Bushfires, Indigenous Fire Knowledge and Reframing Science in Southeast Australia

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Anthony Romano, Simon Connor, Michela Mariani, Shira Yoshi Maezumi

Journal article  |  2021  |  FIRE-SWITZERLAND

The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the recorded history of Southeast Australia. These..