The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape

Cadd, Haidee; Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; Mariani, Michela; Heijnis, Hendrik; Gadd, Patricia S.

Abstract

Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Tasmania's montane temperate rainforests contain some of Australia's most ancient and endemic flora. Recent landscape-scale fires have impacted a significant portion of these rainforest ecosystems. The complex and rugged topography of Tasmania results in a highly variable influence of fire across the landscape, rendering predictions of ecosystem response to fire difficult. We assess the role of topographic variation in buffering the influence of fire in these endemic rainforest communities. We developed a new 14000-year (14-ka) palaeoecological dataset from Lake Perry, southern Tasmania, and compared it to neighbouring Lake Osborne (

Citation

Cadd, H., Fletcher, M.-S., Mariani, M., Heijnis, H., & Gadd, P. S. (2019). The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(7), 491-498. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3114

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 9, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jul 23, 2019
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 26, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 24, 2020
• Journal: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Print ISSN: 0267-8179
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-1417
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 491-498
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3114
• Keywords: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Palaeontology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2345579
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jqs.3114
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: CADD, H. , FLETCHER, M. , MARIANI, M. , HEIJNIS, H. and GADD, P. S. (2019), The influence of fine‐scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape. J. Quaternary Sci.., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3114. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
• Contract Date: Jul 26, 2019