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2019/20 Bushfires – Resources Page

Information about bushfire in Australia, plant responses to fire, and conservation/restoration post-fire.

ANPC Fact Sheets

How plants cope with fire [PDF]

What is Fire? Fire and its components [PDF]

Other reports and fact sheets

COMMONWEALTH

Wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery research and resources [link]. Includes:

  • Threatened and migratory species known or predicted to occur in areas affected by bushfires in southern and eastern Australia from 1 August 2019 and 13 January 2020
  • Preliminary analysis area map
  • Impact of fires on Threatened Ecological Communities and World Heritage Areas

Wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery Expert Panel [link]

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee 10-point Bushfire Response Plan [2 March 2020] [link]

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAM THREATENED SPECIES RECOVERY HUB

Chris Dickman, Don Driscoll, Stephen Garnett, David Keith, Sarah Legge, David Lindenmayer, Martine Maron, April Reside, Euan Ritchie, James Watson, Brendan Wintle, John Woinarski (2020). After the catastrophe: a blueprint for a conservation response to large-scale ecological disaster [link]. Threatened Species Recovery Hub, January 2020.

COUNCIL OF HEADS OF AUSTRALIAN BOTANIC GARDENS INC. (CHABG)

Australia’s major botanic gardens united to assist ecosystem restoration in response to recent bushfires [PDF]. CHABG Statement, February 2020

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Wildlife and Conservation Bushfire Recovery [link] (NSW Government Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, January 2020)

Understanding the impact of the 2019-20 fires (NSW Government Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, January 2020)

VICTORIA

Victoria’s bushfire emergency: Biodiversity response and recovery [link] (Victorian State Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Fire: Researching fire behaviour and the impacts of bushfires in Western Australia. [link]

Bushfire recovery plan for western ground parrots [link]

 

Related links

Environment recovery project – Australian Bushfires 2019-2020  [link] (iNaturalist)

National standards for the practice of ecological restoration in Australia [link](The Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia – SERA)

How to seek assistance for post-fire weed management [link] (Australian Association of Bush Regenerators – AABR)

Links to other groups and resources involved in recovery [link] (Australian Association of Bush Regenerators – AABR)

Bushfires and soil (video) – Supporting bushfire impacted communities and soil ecosystems [link] (Soil Science Australia)

NSW Roadside Environment Committee Newsletter

NSW Nature Conservation Council’s 12th Bushfire Conference 2020

Media articles about plant responses to fire

Yes, native plants can flourish after bushfire. But there’s only so much hardship they can take [link]. ANPC Project Manager Lucy Commander and APC Editor Heidi Zimmer on restoration following bushfires. (The Conversation, 7 January 2020).

Can Aussie plants really recover from bushfire? [link] ANPC Committee member Chantelle Doyle chats with plant and bushfire ecologist Dr Mark Ooi about what’s normal, what’s needed and what kills plants at a time when climate appears out of control. (East side 89.7FM, 21 January 2020).

Pulling out weeds is the best thing you can do to help nature recover from the fires [link] (The Conversation, 28 January 2020)

Why Australia’s severe bushfires may be bad news for tree regeneration  [link] (Science Matters, 30 January 2020)

Wildlife needs fire-damaged and dead trees after fires [link] (Australian Geographic, 14 January 2020)

Waking up – Australian bush begins its long bushfire recovery [link] (ABC News, 1 February 2020)

Self Improvement: How plants respond to bushfires [link] (ABC Drive, 5 February 2020)

Bushfire impacts, recovery and outlook (Branch Out podcast, 15 July 2020)

Articles from Australasian Plant Conservation on plants and fire

How do germination responses to smoke relate to phylogeny, growth form, fire response strategies and vegetation type? A focus on eastern Australia [PDF] (Carthey and Leishman 2016)

 

Explaining feedbacks between fire and flammability in the Snowgums and beyond [PDF] (Zylstra 2016)

 

Vegetation monitoring and management at Kinglake National Park following the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires  [PDF] (Just and Bearsell 2013)

 

Preliminary field observations on fire and the endangered and data deficient Pultenaea sp. ‘Olinda’ [PDF] (Clarke 2013)

 

Integrating fire management into conservation actions for the threatened shrub Grevillea caleyi [PDF](Auld and Scott 2013)

 

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