Michela Mariani

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..

Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere's largest copper mine in the 20th century

Larissa Schneider, Niamh Shulmeister, Michela Mariani, Kristen K Beck, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Atun Zawadzki, Krystyna M Saunders, Marco A Aquino-Lopez, Simon G Haberle

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANTHROPOCENE REVIEW

Mining has been a major contributor to economic development in Australia since British arrival in the late 1700s, with little to n..

The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Haidee R Cadd, Michela Mariani, Tegan L Hall, Samuel W Wood

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Context Forest systems are dynamic and can alternate between alternative stable states in response to climate, disturbance and int..

The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia

KK Beck, M Mariani, M-S Fletcher, L Schneider, MA Aquino-Lopez, PS Gadd, H Heijnis, KM Saunders, A Zawadzki

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Mining causes extensive damage to aquatic ecosystems via acidification, heavy metal pollution, sediment loading, and Ca decline. Y..

The geomorphology and evolution of intermittently open and closed estuaries in large embayments in Victoria, Australia

David M Kennedy, Sarah L McSweeney, Michela Mariani, Elisa Zavadil

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEOMORPHOLOGY

Intermittently open and closed estuaries (IOCE) are common landforms on open-ocean microtidal coasts. They are often viewed as evo..

Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition

A Lintern, L Schneider, K Beck, M Mariani, M-S Fletcher, P Gell, S Haberle

Journal article  |  2020  |  ELEMENTA-SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Waterways in the Southern Hemisphere, including on the Australian continent, are facing increasing levels of mercury contamination..

Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long-term fire activity in Australia's subtropical sclerophyll forests

Michela Mariani, John Tibby, Cameron Barr, Patrick Moss, Jonathan C Marshall, Glenn B McGregor

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: To understand the long-term drivers of biomass burning in the sclerophyll-dominated forests of Australia. Location: Swallow L..

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

Climate change is affecting the distribution of species and the functioning of ecosystems. For species that are slow growing and p..

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

This study investigated metal contamination from historical mining in lakes in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA..

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

Recent changes in trend and variability of the main Southern Hemisphere climate modes are driven by a variety of factors, includin..