Journal article
The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape
H Cadd, MS Fletcher, M Mariani, H Heijnis, PS Gadd
Journal of Quaternary Science | WILEY | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3114
Abstract
Tasmania's montane temperate rainforests contain some of Australia's most ancient and endemic flora. Recent landscape-scale fires have impacted a significant portion of these rainforest ecosystems. The complex and rugged topography of Tasmania results in a highly variable influence of fire across the landscape, rendering predictions of ecosystem response to fire difficult. We assess the role of topographic variation in buffering the influence of fire in these endemic rainforest communities. We developed a new 14 000-year (14-ka) palaeoecological dataset from Lake Perry, southern Tasmania, and compared it to neighbouring Lake Osborne (<250 m distant) to examine how topographic variations infl..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was conducted on Tasmanian Aboriginal lands and we thank the Tasmanian Aboriginal community for their ongoing support of our research. Financial support for this project comes from the Australian Research Council (award: DI110100019 and IN140100050) and Australia Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (award: ALNGRA13529). We thank Simon Connor, Scott Nichols and Alexa Benson for their assistance in the field.