Outputs (32)

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia (2024)
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Mariani, M., Wills, A., Herbert, A., Adeleye, M., Florin, S. A., Cadd, H., Connor, S., Kershaw, P., Theuerkauf, M., Stevenson, J., Fletcher, M.-S., Mooney, S., Bowman, D., & Haberle, S. (2024). Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia. Science, 386(6721), 567-573. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn8668

Wildfires in forests globally have become more frequent and intense because of changes in climate and human management. Shrub layer fuels allow fire to spread vertically to forest canopy, creating high-intensity fires. Our research provides a deep-ti... Read More about Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia.

Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness (2024)
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Fletcher, M., Romano, A., Lisé‐Pronovost, A., Mariani, M., Henriquez, W., Gadd, P., Heijnis, H., Hodgson, D., Blaauw, M., & Sculthorpe, A. (2024). Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness. Geographical Research, 62(4), 503-525. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12658

Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000-year record of landscape change from Lake Selina in western Tasmania, Australia. We analysed a sediment core for palaeoecol... Read More about Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness.

Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia (2024)
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Fletcher, M.-S., Romano, A., Nichols, S., Henriquez Gonzalez, W., Mariani, M., Jaganjac, D., & Sculthorpe, A. (2024). Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, Article 1386339. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2024.1386339

Humans undertake land management and care of landscapes to maintain safe, healthy, productive and predictable environments. Often, this is achieved through creating spatial and temporal heterogeneity in a way that leverages the natural world; both am... Read More about Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia.

Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania) (2024)
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Cooley, S., Fletcher, M.-S., Lisé-Pronovost, A., May, J.-H., Mariani, M., Gadd, P., Hodgson, D. A., & Heijnis, H. (2024). Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania). Quaternary Science Reviews, 329, Article 108572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108572

Limited understanding of how Indigenous people have created and managed the Australian landscape continues to have repercussions on how landscapes are culturally interpreted and managed today. Addressing this is critically important as climate change... Read More about Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania).

Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation (2024)
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Connor, S. E., Lewis, T., van Leeuwen, J. F., (Pim) van der Knaap, W., Schaefer, H., Porch, N., Gomes, A. I., Piva, S. B., Gadd, P., Kuneš, P., Haberle, S. G., Adeleye, M. A., Mariani, M., & Elias, R. B. (2024). Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation, 291, Article 110512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110512

Remote islands harbour many endemic species and unique ecosystems. They are also some of the world's most human-impacted systems. It is essential to understand how island species and ecosystems behaved prior to major anthropogenic d... Read More about Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation.

Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2024)
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Sayedi, S. S., Abbott, B. W., Vanniere, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Gil-Romera, G., Slowinski, M., Aleman, J., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., Aakala, T., Alenius, T., Allen, K., Andric, M., Bergeron, Y., Biagioni, S., Bradshaw, R., Bremond, L., Brisset, E., …Daniau, A.-L. (in press). Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire Ecology, 20(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

Background

The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, manage... Read More about Assessing changes in global fire regimes.

FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains (2023)
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Katsi, F., Kent, M. S., Jones, M., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., Eastwood, W., Mariani, M., Osborne, C., Edwards, S., & Lomax, B. H. (2024). FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321, Article 105039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105039

Palynological analysis based on spore and pollen morphology is well established in the field of palaeo-environmental reconstruction but is currently not fully exploited for understanding the history and development of cereal cultivation due to diffic... Read More about FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains.

The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia (2022)
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Laming, A., Fletcher, M.-S., Romano, A., Mullett, R., Connor, S., Mariani, M., Maezumi, S. Y., & Gadd, P. S. (2022). The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia. Fire, 5(6), Article 175. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5060175

Protecting “wilderness” and removing human involvement in “nature” was a core pillar of the modern conservation movement through the 20th century. Conservation approaches and legislation informed by this narrative fail to recognise that Aboriginal pe... Read More about The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
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Pugh, B. E., Colley, M., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., Flitcroft, R., Holz, A., Johnson, M., Mariani, M., Means‐Brous, M., Meyer, K., Moffett, K. B., Renan, L., Schrodt, F., Thorne, C., Valman, S., Wijayratne, U., & Field, R. (2022). A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(10), 1990-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13555

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires (2022)
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Mariani, M., Connor, S. E., Theuerkauf, M., Herbert, A., Kuneš, P., Bowman, D., Fletcher, M.-S., Head, L., Kershaw, A. P., Haberle, S. G., Stevenson, J., Adeleye, M., Cadd, H., Hopf, F., & Briles, C. (2022). Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(5), 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2395

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 understan... Read More about Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires.