Michela Mariani

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..

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire

Brittany E Pugh, Megan Colley, Stephen J Dugdale, Patrick Edwards, Rebecca Flitcroft, Andres Holz, Matthew Johnson, Michela Mariani, Mickey Means-Brous, Kate Meyer, Kevan B Moffett, Lisa Renan, Franziska Schrodt, Colin Thorne, Samuel Valman, Upekala Wijayratne, Richard Field

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodive..

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..

Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin

Marcos Rodrigues, Michela Mariani, Ana Russo, Michele Salis, Luiz Felipe Galizia, Adrian Cardil

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

This work explores the main climate teleconnections influencing the Western Mediterranean Basin to outline homogeneous fire-prone ..

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..

Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods

Richard J Lewis, John Tibby, Lee J Arnold, Patricia Gadd, Geraldine Jacobsen, Cameron Barr, Peter M Negus, Michela Mariani, Daniel Penny, David Chittleborough, Edward Moss

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Debate about the nature of climate and the magnitude of ecological change across Australia during the last glacial maximum (LGM; 2..

Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California

Adrian Cardil, Marcos Rodrigues, Joaquin Ramirez, Sergio de-Miguel, Carlos A Silva, Michela Mariani, Davide Ascoli

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Projections of future climate change impacts suggest an increase of wildfire activity in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as souther..

Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems

Matthew Adesanya Adeleye, Michela Mariani, Simon Connor, Simon Graeme Haberle, Annika Herbert, Felicitas Hopf, Janelle Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: Knowledge of the drivers of ecosystem changes in the past is key to understanding present ecosystem responses to changes in c..

The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800 year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Cesare Ravazzi, Michela Mariani, Constantino Criado, Lorena Garozzo, Agustin Naranjo-Cigala, Francisco J Perez-Torrado, Roberta Pini, Alejandro Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Sandra Nogue, Robert J Whittaker, Jose Maria Fernandez-Palacios, Lea de Nascimento

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

AIM: Long‐term ecological data provide a stepped frame of island ecosystem transformation after successive waves of human coloniza..