Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10453984" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10453984 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=J7zE30TbHH" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=J7zE30TbHH</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2395" target="_blank" >10.1002/fee.2395</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires
Original language description
Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad-scale questions about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation and structure. For sustainable coexistence with fire, a better understanding of the ancient nexus between humans and flammable landscapes is needed. We used novel palaeoecological modeling and charcoal compilations to reassess evidence for changes in land cover and tire activity, focusing on southeast Australia before and after British colonization. Here, we provide what we believe is the first quantitative evidence that the region's forests and woodlands contained fewer shrubs and more grass before colonization. Changes in vegetation, fuel structures, and connectivity followed different trajectories in different vegetation types. The pattern is best explained by the disruption of Indigenous vegetation management caused by European settlement. Combined with climate-change impacts on fire weather and drought, the widespread absence of Indigenous fire management practices likely preconditioned fire-prone regions for wildfires of unprecedented extent.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
ISSN
1540-9295
e-ISSN
1540-9309
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
292-300
UT code for WoS article
000755093000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85124597549