All Outputs (5)

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia (2024)
Journal Article
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.