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DOI	10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00126.x
	Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems
	Enright, Neal J.; Thomas, Ian
通讯作者	Enright, NJ
来源期刊	GEOGRAPHY COMPASS
ISSN	1749-8198
出版年	2008
卷号	2 期号:4 页码:979-1011
英文摘要	We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by Aboriginal peoples since their colonisation of the continent at least 45,000 years ago has impacted on the Australian biota. The relative roles of people and climate (including past climate change) as agents driving fire regime are assessed for the major climate-vegetation regions of the continent. Both historical accounts and evidence from current land-use practices in some areas support the argument that Aboriginal peoples used fire as a land management tool. Evidence for pre-European fire regimes suggests that while large areas of savanna woodlands in northern Australia, and dry forests and woodlands in temperate southern Australia, were subjected to increased fire under Aboriginal land management; others were not. Areas where fire regime was controlled primarily by 'natural' climate-fuel relationships probably included those that were difficult to burn because they were too wet (e.g. rainforests), fuel levels were usually too low (e.g. desert and semi-arid rangelands), or resource availability was low and did not support other than transient human occupation (e.g. some shrublands). Scientific studies suggest that many fire-sensitive woody species would decline under more frequent burning, so that the use of a small patch size, frequent fire regime - such as may have existed over large parts of Australia in the pre-European (Aboriginal occupation) period -may have harmful biodiversity conservation outcomes if instituted without careful consideration of individual ecosystem and species requirements.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000214294000001
WOS关键词	KAKADU NATIONAL-PARK ; CENTRAL ARNHEM-LAND ; FOREST BOUNDARY DYNAMICS ; NEW-SOUTH-WALES ; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA ; RAIN-FOREST ; HOLOCENE VEGETATION ; TROPICAL SAVANNAS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; GLACIAL CYCLE
WOS类目	Geography
WOS研究方向	Geography
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329035
作者单位	[Enright, Neal J.] Murdoch Univ, Sch Environm Sci, Murdoch, WA, Australia; [Thomas, Ian] Univ Melbourne, Grad Sch Land & Food Resources, Geog Program, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Enright, Neal J.,Thomas, Ian. Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems[J],2008,2(4):979-1011.
APA	Enright, Neal J.,&Thomas, Ian.(2008).Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems.GEOGRAPHY COMPASS,2(4),979-1011.
MLA	Enright, Neal J.,et al."Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems".GEOGRAPHY COMPASS 2.4(2008):979-1011.