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Australia - a model system for the development of pyrogeography
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Bowman, DMJS and Murphy, BP, Australia - a model system for the development of pyrogeography, Fire Ecology, 7, (1) pp. 5-12. ISSN 1933-9747 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2011 The Association for Fire Ecology.
DOI: doi:10.4996/fireecology.0701005
Abstract
We define pyrogeography as an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective of landscape fire, its ecological effects, and its relationships with human societies. Like biogeography, this program spans geographic scales from the local to the global, has an evolutionary frame, and thus a geological dimension. And, like other geographic disciplines, pyrogeography has a clear commitment to understanding the interrelationships between cultures and their environment. We illustrate our approach by considering the pyrogeography of Australia. We demonstrate how a long history of fire has had a pervasive influence on the continent’s biota. While Aborigines coexisted with flammable landscapes for millennia, contemporary Australian society is still learning to live in a land of fire.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecology |
| Research Field: | Ecology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Ecosystem Assessment and Management |
| Objective Field: | Ecosystem Assessment and Management not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
| UTAS Author: | Murphy, BP (Dr Brett Murphy) |
| ID Code: | 69329 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
| Deposited By: | Plant Science |
| Deposited On: | 2011-04-19 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-08-23 |
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