Fauna, fuel and fire: effects of animals on bushfire risk

动物群、燃料和火灾：动物对丛林火灾风险的影响

• 批准号: LP170100152
• 负责人: Prof David Lindenmayer
• 金额: $ 45.47万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-04-09 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP170100152
• 关键词: Fauna; fuel; fire; effects; animals

This project aims to determine the extent that animals influence fire regimes through effects on fuel load and characteristics. Minimising the risk of large, severe bushfires, while conserving native species is one of the greatest challenges facing managers of fire-prone ecosystems globally. Using a powerful combination of landscape-scale field observations, experimental manipulations of animal densities, and modelling, the project expects to quantify interactions between animals, bushfire fuel and fire regimes in south eastern Australian forests, woodlands and scrublands. This evidence should benefit the design of integrated, efficient, and complementary strategies for fire and fauna management in Australia’s extensive fire-prone ecosystems.

该项目旨在确定动物通过对燃料负荷和特性的影响对火灾制度的影响程度。在保护本地物种的同时，最大限度地降低发生大规模严重森林火灾的风险，是全球火灾易发生态系统管理者面临的最大挑战之一。利用景观尺度的实地观察、动物密度的实验操作和建模的强大组合，该项目希望量化澳大利亚东南部森林、林地和灌木丛中动物、丛林火灾燃料和火灾制度之间的相互作用。这一证据应该有利于设计综合、有效和互补的战略，以便在澳大利亚广泛的火灾易发生态系统中进行火灾和动物管理。