A/Prof Michael-Shawn Fletcher

I am interested in the long-term interactions between humans, climate, disturbance and vegetation at local, regional and global scales. My current work involves developing and integrating high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records from across the Southern Hemisphere using multiple proxies, including microfossil, charcoal, geochemical and isotopic analyses to provide comprehensive reconstructions of environmental change.

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Michael-Shawn Fletcher's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape

Michael-Shawn Fletcher's selected work

How Do The Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Respond To Rapid Climate Change? A Case Stud..

Research Grant

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and reconciliation

NEWS ARTICLE

The long-term impacts of climate and fire on catchment processes and aquatic ecosystem res..

Journal article

A National Facility For The Analysis Of Pyrogenic Carbon (Uom-Cash)

Internal Research Grant

This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colon..

NEWS ARTICLE

The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian mont..

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Michael-Shawn Fletcher.

How Do The Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Respond To Rapid Climate Change? A Case Study Of The Antarctic Cold Reversal From Tasmania

2018 - 2018

Completed

A National Facility For The Analysis Of Pyrogenic Carbon (Uom-Cash)

This project aims to develop a national facility for pyrogenic carbon analysis. Pyrogenic carbon is a poorly constrained, slow-cycling terre..

2018 - 2018

Completed

A National Facility For The Analysis Of Pyrogenic Carbon (Non-Lead)

This project aims to develop a national facility for pyrogenic carbon analysis. Pyrogenic carbon is a poorly constrained, slow-cycling terre..

2018 - 2018

Completed

How Do The Southern Westerly Winds Respond To Rapid Climatic Change?

This project aims to produce high quality data on how the Southern Westerly Winds (SWW) respond to largescale changes in climate boundary co..

2017 - 2020

Active

Altered States: European Arrival, Fire And Ecology In Northern Australia

This project aims to understand how fire affects the northern Australian savannah. European arrival changed how fire was used in Australia. ..

2017 - 2019

Completed

Using Nuclear Techniques To Reconstruct Fire-Driven Environmental Changes In Western Tasmania

2016 - 2018

Completed

Rgss Near Miss Grant Proposal

2016 - 2016

Completed

Environmental Analysis Of Geotechnical Cores

2015 - 2019

Completed

The Evolution Of The El Nino-Southern Oscillation In Southeast Australia

El Niño events starve southeast Australia of rainfall, resulting in droughts and wildfires. El Niño activity is projected to amplify as glob..

2014 - 2016

Completed

Using Itrax, Radiocarbon And Lead-210 Dating To Track The Evolution Of The El Nino-Southern Oscillation In Southeast Australia

2013 - 2014

Completed

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Projects

Project Types

Research Grant

Internal Research Grant

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 52 most recent scholarly works by Michael-Shawn Fletcher.

The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tegan Hall, Andreas Nicholas Alexandra

Journal article | 2020 | Ambio

Indigenous people play an integral role in shaping natural environments, and the disruption to Indigenous land management practice..

The long-term impacts of climate and fire on catchment processes and aquatic ecosystem response in Tasmania, Australia

Kristen K Beck, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricia S Gadd, Henk Heijnis, Krystyna M Saunders, Atun Zawadzki

Journal article | 2019 | Quaternary Science Reviews

The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape

Haidee Cadd, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Michela Mariani, Hendrik Heijnis, Patricia S Gadd

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Quaternary Science

Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania

Agathe Lise-Pronovost, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tom Mallett, Michela Mariani, Richard Lewis, Patricia S Gadd, Andy IR Herries, Maarten Blaauw, Hendrik Heijnis, Dominic A Hodgson, Joel B Pedro

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Scientific Drilling

Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests

Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Simon Haberle, Hahjung Chin, Atun Zawadzki, Geraldine Jacobsen

Journal article | 2019 | Global Change Biology

How significant is atmospheric metal contamination from mining activity adjacent to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area? A spatial analysis of metal concentrations using air trajectories models

Larissa Schneider, Michela Mariani, Krystyna M Saunders, William A Maher, Jennifer J Harrison, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Atun Zawadzki, Henk Heijnis, Simon G Haberle

Journal article | 2019 | Science of The Total Environment

Evidence for reduced environmental variability in response to increasing human population growth during the late Holocene in northwest Tasmania, Australia

Anthony Romano, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2018 | Quaternary Science Reviews

New age controls on Oligocene and Miocene sediments in southeastern Australia

Vera A Korasidis, Malcolm W Wallace, Barbara E Wagstaff, Stephen J Gallagher, Jackson C McCaffrey, Tony Allan, Sid Rastogi, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2018 | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Erratum to: Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events (Nature Climate Change, (2018), 8, 7, (579-587), 10.1038/s41558-018-0187-9)

RMB Harris, LJ Beaumont, TR Vance, CR Tozer, TA Remenyi, SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, PJ Mitchell, AB Nicotra, S McGregor, NR Andrew, M Letnic, MR Kearney, T Wernberg, LB Hutley, LE Chambers, MS Fletcher, MR Keatley, CA Woodward, G Williamson, NC Duke, et al.

Journal article | 2018 | Nature Climate Change

Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

RMB Harris, LJ Beaumont, TR Vance, CR Tozer, TA Remenyi, SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, PJ Mitchell, AB Nicotra, S McGregor, NR Andrew, M Letnic, MR Kearney, T Wernberg, LB Hutley, LE Chambers, M-S Fletcher, MR Keatley, CA Woodward, G Williamson, NC Duke, et al.

Journal article | 2018 | Nature Climate Change

Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere

Michela Mariani, Andres Holz, Thomas T Veblen, Grant Williamson, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, David MJS Bowman

Journal article | 2018 | Geophysical Research Letters

Biogeochemical Responses to Holocene Catchment-Lake Dynamics in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area, Australia

Michela Mariani, Kristen K Beck, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Peter Gell, Krystyna M Saunders, Patricia Gadd, Robert Chisari

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Alexa Benson, David MJS Bowman, Patricia S Gadd, Hendrik Heijnis, Michela Mariani, Krystyna M Saunders, Brent B Wolfe, Atun Zawadzki

Journal article | 2018 | Geology

The indirect response of an aquatic ecosystem to long-term climate-driven terrestrial vegetation in a subalpine temperate lake

K Beck, M-S Fletcher, G Kattel, LA Barry, PS Gadd, H Heijnis, KS Jacobsen

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Biogeography

Aim To assess whether climate directly influences aquatic ecosystem dynamics in the temperate landscape of Tasmania or whether the..

The changing role of fire in conifer-dominated temperate rainforest through the last 14,000 years

M-S Fletcher, DMJS Bowman, C Whitlock, M Mariani, L Stahle

Journal article | 2018 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Variance and Rate-of-Change as Early Warning Signals for a Critical Transition in an Aquatic Ecosystem State: A Test Case From Tasmania, Australia

Kristen K Beck, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricia S Gadd, Henk Heijnis, Krystyna M Saunders, Gavin L Simpson, Atun Zawadzki

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Coupling of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude climate during the early to mid-Holocene

Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Russell N Drysdale, Krystyna M Saunders, Henk Heijnis, Geraldine Jacobsen, Atun Zawadzki

Journal article | 2017 | Geology

Evaluation of PMIP2 and PMIP3 simulations of mid-Holocene climate in the Indo-Pacific, Australasian and Southern Ocean regions

Duncan Ackerley, Jessica Reeves, Cameron Barr, Helen Bostock, Kathryn Fitzsimmons, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Chris Gouramanis, Helen McGregor, Scott Mooney, Steven J Phipps, John Tibby, Jonathan Tyler

Journal article | 2017 | Climate of the Past

Long-term climate dynamics in the extra-tropics of the South Pacific revealed from sedimentary charcoal analysis

Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2017 | Quaternary Science Reviews

How old is the Tasmanian cultural landscape? A test of landscape openness using quantitative land-cover reconstructions

Michela Mariani, Simon E Connor, Michael-S Fletcher, Martin Theuerkauf, Petr Kunes, Geraldine Jacobsen, Krystyna M Saunders, Atun Zawadzki

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Biogeography

Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania: Vegetation, climate and fire at Stoney Lagoon

Penelope J Jones, Ian Thomas, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2017 | The Holocene

Re-assessment of the mid to late Quaternary glacial and environmental history of the Boco Plain, western Tasmania

Paul Augustinus, David Fink, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Ian Thomas

Journal article | 2017 | QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An early onset of ENSO influence in the extra-tropics of the southwest Pacific inferred from a 14, 600 year high resolution multi-proxy record from Paddy's Lake, northwest Tasmania

Kristen K Beck, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricia S Gadd, Henk Heijnis, Geraldine E Jacobsen

Journal article | 2017 | QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Testing quantitative pollen dispersal models in animal-pollinated vegetation mosaics: An example from temperate Tasmania, Australia

M Mariani, SE Connor, M Theuerkauf, P Kunes, M-S Fletcher

Journal article | 2016 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire

Jason J Sharples, Geoffrey J Cary, Paul Fox-Hughes, Scott Mooney, Jason P Evans, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Mike Fromm, Pauline F Grierson, Rick Mcrae, Patrick Baker

Journal article | 2016 | Climatic Change

ENSO controls interannual fire activity in southeast Australia

M Mariani, M-S Fletcher, A Holz, P Nyman

Journal article | 2016 | Geophysical Research Letters

The Southern Annular Mode determines interannual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia

Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2016 | Geophysical Research Letters

Can we infer vegetation change from peat carbon and nitrogen content? A palaeoecological test from Tasmania, Australia

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Haidee R Cadd, Simon G Haberle

Journal article | 2015 | The Holocene

Southern Westerly Winds submit to the ENSO regime: A multiproxy paleohydrology record from Lake Dobson, Tasmania

Andrew BH Rees, Les C Cwynar, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2015 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Changes in biomass burning mark the onset of an ENSO-influenced climate regime at 42 degrees S in southwest Tasmania, Australia

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Alexa Benson, Hendrik Heijnis, Patricia S Gadd, Les C Cwynar, Andrew BH Rees

Journal article | 2015 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Mast seeding and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation: a long-term relationship?

Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2015 | Plant Ecology

El Nino-Southern Oscillation forced climate, fire and catchment dynamics in Tasmania: Understanding complex responses to long term natural variability of terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems

K Beck, M-S Fletcher

Conference Proceedings | 2015

A fire-driven shift from forest to non-forest: evidence for alternative stable states?

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Sam W Wood, Simon G Haberle

Journal article | 2014 | ECOLOGY

The legacy of mid-Holocene fire on a Tasmanian montane landscape

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Brent B Wolfe, Cathy Whitlock, David P Pompeani, Hendrik Heijnis, Simon G Haberle, Patricia S Gadd, David MJS Bowman

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Biogeography

Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup

L Petherick, H Bostock, TJ Cohen, K Fitzsimmons, J Tibby, M-S Fletcher, P Moss, J Reeves, S Mooney, T Barrows, J Kemp, J Jansen, G Nanson, A Dosseto

Journal article | 2013 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation

Jessica M Reeves, Timothy T Barrows, Timothy J Cohen, Anthony S Kiem, Helen C Bostock, Kathryn E Fitzsimmons, John D Jansen, Justine Kemp, Claire Krause, Lynda Petherick, Steven J Phipps

Journal article | 2013 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Centennial-scale vegetation and sedimentary change in Región de la Araucanía, central Chile, over the last 2000 years: disentangling the relative roles humans, volcanos and climate

Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2012 | Quaternary International

Reconstructing climatic change over the last 1000 years in the mid latitudes of the Australian sector using high-resolution multi-proxy (pollen, charcoal and geochemistry) lake sediment analyses

Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article | 2012 | Quaternary International

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem (vol 253, pg 32, 2012)

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricio Ivan Moreno

Journal article | 2012 | Quaternary International

Vegetation, climate and fire regime changes in the Andean region of southern Chile (38 degrees S) covaried with centennial-scale climate anomalies in the tropical Pacific over the last 1500 years

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricio Ivan Moreno

Journal article | 2012 | Quaternary Science Reviews

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Patricio Ivan Moreno

Journal article | 2012 | Quaternary International