Has it always burned so hot? Fuel and fire in southeast Australian forests

一直都这么热吗？

• 批准号: IN210100055
• 负责人: Prof Michael-Shawn Fletcher
• 金额: $ 31.95万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Indigenous
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-05-11 至 2024-05-10
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/IN210100055
• 关键词: always; burned; so; hot; Fuel

Indigenous cultural burning has been raised as a way of mitigating against climate-driven catastrophic bushfires in southeast Australian forests. It is argued that returning an Indigenous style fire regime will keep landscape fuel loads low, thus reducing the frequency and intensity of bushfires and mitigating against large catastrophic bushfires. While based on enormous reservoirs of traditional fire knowledge in Indigenous communities, this assertion needs empirical testing within these highly flammable forests. This project aims to empirically test how fuel loads, fuel type, fire frequency and fire intensity have changed over the past 500 years in southeast Australian forests, spanning the period of indigenous to British management.

土著文化燃烧被认为是减轻澳大利亚东南部森林气候驱动的灾难性森林大火的一种方式。有人认为，返回土著风格的火灾制度将保持景观燃料负荷低，从而减少火灾的频率和强度，并减轻对大型灾难性的火灾。虽然基于土著社区传统防火知识的巨大储备，但这一论断需要在这些高度易燃的森林中进行实证检验。该项目旨在实证测试如何燃料负荷，燃料类型，火灾频率和火灾强度在过去500年来在澳大利亚东南部森林的变化，跨越土著英国管理的时期。