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

土著文化焚烧已被提出作为一种缓解气候驱动的灾难性丛林大火的方式。有人认为，回归土著风格的火灾制度将保持景观燃料负荷低，从而减少森林火灾的频率和强度，减轻大型灾难性森林火灾。虽然这一论断基于土著社区大量的传统火灾知识储备，但需要在这些高度易燃的森林中进行实证检验。该项目旨在通过经验测试过去500年来澳大利亚东南部森林的燃料负荷、燃料类型、火灾频率和火灾强度是如何变化的，从土著到英国管理的时期。

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.