Are coastal wetlands vulnerable to bushfires?

“黑色夏天”大火烧毁了沿海湿地的大面积地区，而这些地区通常与火灾的影响无关。这些湿地依靠植物生长和沉积物输送来应对海平面上升，这一过程可能受到火灾的影响。该项目旨在量化火灾影响的分布和严重程度，并建立火灾后植被和地表高程轨迹。通过综合火灾生态学和湿地科学方法，该项目将确定沿海湿地对火灾和海平面上升的累积影响的恢复能力。该项目的预期成果包括新的、空间明确的火灾管理工具，这将有助于在气候变化中对沿海湿地进行可持续的长期管理。

The ‘Black Summer’ fires burned extensive areas of coastal wetland not typically associated with fire impact. These wetlands rely upon plant growth and sediment delivery to respond to sea-level rise, processes which may be impacted by fire. This project aims to quantify the distribution and severity of fire impact, and establish post-fire vegetation and surface elevation trajectories. By integrating fire ecology and wetland science approaches, this project will ascertain the resilience of coastal wetlands to the cumulative impacts of fire and sea-level rise. Expected outcomes of this project include new, spatially-explicit fire management tools which will aid the sustainable, long-term management of coastal wetlands in a changing climate.