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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, 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., Lisé-Pronovost, A., May, J., Mariani, M., Gadd, P., …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., …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.

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., …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., …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., …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.

Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin (2021)
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Rodrigues, M., Mariani, M., Russo, A., Salis, M., Galizia, L., & Cardil, A. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19), Article e2021GL094238. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094238

This work explores the main climate teleconnections influencing the Western Mediterranean Basin to outline homogeneous fire-prone weather domains combining cross-correlation time series and cluster analysis. We found a zonal effect of the Scandinavia... Read More about Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin.

Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2021)
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Fletcher, M.-S., Pedro, J., Hall, T., Mariani, M., Joseph, A., Beck, K., …Lise-Pronovost, A. (2021). Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 271, Article 107189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107189

Inter-hemispheric asynchrony of climate change through the last deglaciation has been theoretically linked to latitudinal shifts in the southern westerlies via their influence over CO2 out-gassing from the Southern Ocean. Proxy-based reconstructions... Read More about Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal.

Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia (2021)
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Fletcher, M. S., Romano, A., Connor, S., Mariani, M., & Yoshi Maezumi, S. (2021). Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia. Fire, 4(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030061

The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the recorded history of Southeast Australia. These bushfires were one of several recent global conflagrations across landscapes that are homelands of Indigenous peoples,... Read More about Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia.

Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods (2021)
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Lewis, R. J., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Gadd, P., Jacobsen, G., Barr, C., …Moss, E. (2021). Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods. Quaternary Research, 102, 68-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.117

Debate about the nature of climate and the magnitude of ecological change across Australia during the last glacial maximum (LGM; 26.5-19 ka) persists despite considerable research into the late Pleistocene. This is partly due to a lack of detailed pa... Read More about Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods.

Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems (2020)
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Adeleye, M. A., Mariani, M., Connor, S., Haberle, S. G., Herbert, A., Hopf, F., & Stevenson, J. (2021). Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(2), 557-571. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13232

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Knowledge of the drivers of ecosystem changes in the past is key to understanding present ecosystem responses to changes in climate, fire regimes and anthropogenic impacts. Northern Hemisphere-focussed studies sugg... Read More about Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems.

The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (2020)
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Ravazzi, C., Mariani, M., Criado, C., Garozzo, L., Naranjo-Cigala, A., Perez-Torrado, F. J., …de Nascimento, L. (2021). The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Journal of Biogeography, 48(2), 276-290. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13995

Aim: Long-term ecological data provide a stepped frame of island ecosystem transformation after successive waves of human colonization, essential to determine conservation and management baselines. However, the timing and ecological impact of initial... Read More about The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.

Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest copper mine in the 20th century (2020)
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Schneider, L., Shulmeister, N., Mariani, M., Beck, K., Fletcher, M., Zawadzki, A., …Haberle, S. G. (2022). Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest copper mine in the 20th century. Anthropocene Review, 9(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019620968133

Mining has been a major contributor to economic development in Australia since British arrival in the late 1700s, with little to no thought about the long-term environmental consequences. This study assesses the metal pollution legacy caused by diffe... Read More about Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest copper mine in the 20th century.

Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area (2020)
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Connor, S. E., van Leeuwen, J. F., (Pim) van der Knaap, W., Akindola, R. B., Adeleye, M. A., & Mariani, M. (2021). Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 30(5), 583-594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00811-0

Understanding the significance of pollen diversity is key to reconstructing plant diversity over long timescales. Here we present quantitative pollen–plant diversity comparisons for a mountainous area of the Western Mediterranean region. Samples wer... Read More about Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area.

Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition (2020)
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Lintern, A., Schneider, L., Beck, K., Mariani, M., Fletcher, M., Gell, P., & Haberle, S. (2020). Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1), Article 019. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.019

Waterways in the Australian continent are facing increasing levels of mercury contamination due to industrialisation, agricultural intensification, energy production, urbanisation and mining. Mercury contamination undermines the use of waterways as a... Read More about Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition.

Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California (2020)
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Cardil, A., Rodrigues, M., Ramirez, J., de-Miguel, S., Silva, C. A., Mariani, M., & Ascoli, D. (2021). Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California. Science of the Total Environment, 765, Article 142788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142788

Projections of future climate change impacts suggest an increase of wildfire activity in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as southern California. This region is a wildfire hotspot and fire managers are under increasingly high pressures to minimize soci... Read More about Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California.

The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system (2020)
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Fletcher, M.-S., Cadd, H. R., Mariani, M., Hall, T. L., & Wood, S. W. (2020). The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system. Landscape Ecology, 35(10), 2275–2285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01110-9

Context: Forest systems are dynamic and can alternate between alternative stable states in response to climate, disturbance and internal abiotic and biotic conditions. Switching between states depends on the crossing of critical thresholds and the es... Read More about The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system.