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

火塑造了澳大利亚的景观、生物多样性和资源。该项目旨在利用澳大利亚东南部易发生火灾的地貌中的几个新的替代物来量化火灾强度和严重程度的近期历史。对最近的野火的这些新的替代物的校准将用于更好地描述火情。这项研究将应用于沉积档案，以调查过去100年来火灾制度是如何演变的。结果将为关于气候变异性和火灾严重性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可能出现的气候和土地利用情景的准备。

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.