Journal article
Fine fuel changes due to timber harvesting and frequent prescribed burning in eucalypt forests of southeastern Australia
JE Burton, JG Cawson, AI Filkov, TD Penman
Forest Ecology and Management | Published : 2022
Abstract
Forests are managed for a range of ecological and economic values. Prescribed burning and timber harvesting are two widely used and often co-occurring forest management activities. Both may alter wildfire risk by changing fuel characteristics. Prescribed burning alters the amount and arrangement of fuel, which changes the probability of ignition and rate of fire spread. Timber harvesting may influence future fuel composition, amount and structure directly via the addition of harvesting residue and indirectly by changing stand structure and fine fuel accumulation. Whilst there is reasonable understanding of how fuel changes immediately after a single prescribed burn or harvest in temperate eu..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is based upon a long-term Forests NSW experiment established by Bob Bridges and Doug Binns. Ruth Allan and Roy Shiels collected much of the field data over the course of the study. The authors would like to thank Luke Collins, Brad Law, Traecey Brassil and Mike Sutton for their assistance with data acquisition. Jamie Burton was funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Funding for Jane Cawson is from the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. Alexander Filkov is funded by the Australian Research Council. We declare that the authors do not have any conflict of interest.