Shaping a sunburnt country: fire, climate and the Australian landscape

塑造一个被晒伤的国家：火灾、气候和澳大利亚景观

• 批准号: DP200101123
• 负责人: Prof Anthony Dosseto
• 金额: $ 26.59万
• 依托单位: University of Wollongong
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200101123
• 关键词: Shaping; sunburnt; country; fire; climate

Fire shapes Australia’s landscape, biodiversity and resources. This project aims to quantify the recent history of fire intensity and severity using several novel proxies in the fire-prone landscapes of south-eastern Australia. Calibration of these new proxies to recent wildfires will be used for a better characterisation of fire regimes. This research will be applied to sedimentary archives to investigate how fire regimes have evolved over the past 100 years. The outcomes will inform debates about the relationship between climatic variability and fire severity, and this will contribute to increase the preparedness of natural resource management to potential future climate and land-use scenarios.

火塑造了澳大利亚的景观、生物多样性和资源。该项目的目的是量化的火灾强度和严重程度的最近历史，使用几个新的代理在澳大利亚东南部的火灾易发景观。校准这些新的代理最近的野火将用于更好地表征火灾制度。这项研究将应用于沉积档案，以调查过去100年来火灾制度的演变。其结果将为关于气候变异性与火灾严重程度之间关系的辩论提供信息，这将有助于加强自然资源管理对未来潜在气候和土地使用情景的准备。