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Fire modelling in Tasmanian buttongrass moorlands. IV* Sustaining versus non-sustaining fires
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posted on 2023-05-16, 13:04 authored by Jonathan Marsden-SmedleyJonathan Marsden-Smedley, Catchpole, WR, Pyrke, AButtongrass moorlands are widespread in western Tasmania. In these moorlands, the ability to conduct burning without having to rely on hard fuel boundaries (e.g. vegetation which is too wet to burn, water courses, mineral earth breaks and/or roads) would be a major advantage to land managers. Such burning relies on fires self-extinguishing and is normally referred to as unbounded burning. The aim of this project was to model the probability of fires extinguishing using the data from 156 buttongrass moorland fires. The variables used were wind speed, dead fuel moisture and site productivity. The model, derived from a combination of logistic regression and classification tree modelling, predicts that fires will self-extinguish over a wide range of conditions in low productivity moorlands but, in medium productivity moorlands, the conditions within which fires will self-extinguish will be much more restrictive. As a result, the technique of unbounded burning should be widely applicable in low productivity moorlands, but will be of marginal utility in medium productivity moorlands.
History
Publication title
International Journal of Wildland FireVolume
10Pagination
255-262ISSN
1049-8001Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
CSIRO PublishingPlace of publication
Collingwood, AustraliaRepository Status
- Restricted