All Outputs (36)

The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia (2020)
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Beck, K., Mariani, M., Fletcher, M.-S., Schneider, L., Aquino-Lopez, M., Gadd, P., …Zawadzki, A. (2020). The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia. Environmental Pollution, 265, Article 114695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114695

Mining causes extensive damage to aquatic ecosystems via acidification, heavy metal pollution, sediment loading, and Ca decline. Yet little is known about the effects of mining on freshwater systems in the Southern Hemisphere. A case in point is the... Read More about The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia.

The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape (2019)
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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

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 compl... Read More about The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape.

Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania (2019)
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Lisé-Pronovost, A., Fletcher, M. S., Mallett, T., Mariani, M., Lewis, R., Gadd, P. S., …Pedro, J. B. (2019). Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania. Scientific Drilling, 25, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-25-1-2019

A 70 m long continental sediment record was recovered at Darwin Crater in western Tasmania, Australia. The sediment succession includes a pre-lake silty sand deposit overlain by lacustrine silts that have accumulated in the ∼816 ka meteorite impact c... Read More about Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania.

Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests (2019)
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Mariani, M., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Moss, P., Marshall, J. C., & McGregor, G. B. (2019). Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests. Journal of Biogeography, 46(9), 1974-1987. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13628

Aim
To understand the long‐term drivers of biomass burning in the sclerophyll‐dominated forests of Australia.
Location
Swallow Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia.
Time period
Last ca. 8 kyr.
Major taxa studied
Eucalyptus se... Read More about Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests.

Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests (2019)
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Mariani, M., Fletcher, M.-S., Haberle, S., Chin, H., Zawadzki, A., & Jacobsen, G. (2019). Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests. Global Change Biology, 25(6), 2030-2042. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14609

Climate change is affecting the distribution of species and the functioning of ecosystems. For species that are slow growing and poorly dispersed, climate change can force a lag between the distributions of species and the geographic distributions of... Read More about Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests.

Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management (2018)
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Miras, Y., Mariani, M., Ledger, P. M., Mayoral, A., Chassiot, L., & Lavrieux, M. (2018). Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica: Natural Sciences in Archaeology, IX (2018)(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2018.2.5

A multi-proxy palaeoecological investigation has been undertaken at high spatio-temporal resolution in the Lower Auvergne Mountains (France). It allows us to investigate the Holocene trajectories of landscape evolution arising from the interplay betw... Read More about Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management.

How significant is atmospheric metal contamination from mining activity adjacent to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area? A spatial analysis of metal concentrations using air trajectories models (2018)
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Schneider, L., Mariani, M., Michael-Shawn Fletcher Atun Zawadzki Henk Heijnis Simon G. Haberle, J. J. H., Saunders, K. M., Maher, W. A., Harrison, J. J., …Haberle, S. G. (2019). How significant is atmospheric metal contamination from mining activity adjacent to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area? A spatial analysis of metal concentrations using air trajectories models. Science of the Total Environment, 656, 250-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.241

This study investigated metal contamination from historical mining in lakes in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) and surrounding region. The largest increase in sedimentation and metal contamination occurred ca. 1930 when open-cut... Read More about How significant is atmospheric metal contamination from mining activity adjacent to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area? A spatial analysis of metal concentrations using air trajectories models.

Biogeochemical Responses to Holocene Catchment‐Lake Dynamics in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area, Australia (2018)
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Mariani, M., Beck, K. K., Fletcher, M., Gell, P., Saunders, K. M., Gadd, P., & Chisari, R. (2018). Biogeochemical Responses to Holocene Catchment‐Lake Dynamics in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area, Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(5), 1610-1624. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017jg004136

Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere (2018)
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Mariani, M., Holz, A., Veblen, T. T., Williamson, G., Fletcher, M.-S., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2018). Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(10), 5071-5081. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078294

©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Recent changes in trend and variability of the main Southern Hemisphere climate modes are driven by a variety of factors, including increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, changes in tropical s... Read More about Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere.

Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years (2018)
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Fletcher, M., Benson, A., Bowman, D. M., Gadd, P. S., Heijnis, H., Mariani, M., …Zawadzki, A. (2018). Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years. Geology, 46(4), 363-366. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39661.1

Millennial-scale latitudinal shifts in the southern westerly winds (SWW) drive changes in Southern Ocean upwelling, leading to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels, thereby affecting the global climate and carbon cycle. Our aim here is to understand whe... Read More about Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years.

The changing role of fire in conifer-dominated temperate rainforest through the last 14,000 years (2018)
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Fletcher, M., Bowman, D., Whitlock, C., Mariani, M., & Stahle, L. (2018). The changing role of fire in conifer-dominated temperate rainforest through the last 14,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 182, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.023

Invasive cordgrass (Spartina spp.) in south-eastern Australia induces island formation, salt marsh development, and carbon storage (2017)
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Kennedy, D. M., Konlechner, T., Zavadil, E., Mariani, M., Wong, V., Ierodiaconou, D., & Macreadie, P. (2018). Invasive cordgrass (Spartina spp.) in south-eastern Australia induces island formation, salt marsh development, and carbon storage. Geographical Research, 56(1), 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12265

Invasive vegetation species can lead to major changes in the geomorphology of coastal systems. Within temperate estuaries in the southern hemisphere, especially Australia and New Zealand, the cordgrass Spartina spp. has become established. These spec... Read More about Invasive cordgrass (Spartina spp.) in south-eastern Australia induces island formation, salt marsh development, and carbon storage.

Coupling of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude climate during the early to mid-Holocene (2017)
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Mariani, M., Fletcher, M.-S., Drysdale, R. N., Saunders, K. M., Heijnis, H., Jacobsen, G., & Zawadzki, A. (2017). Coupling of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude climate during the early to mid-Holocene. Geology, 45(12), 1083-1086. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39705.1

Conceptual models predict a tight coupling between the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the Southern Westerly Winds (SWW) in response to glacial-interglacial transitions, yet little is known about this relationship under Holocene boundary co... Read More about Coupling of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude climate during the early to mid-Holocene.

Long-term climate dynamics in the extra-tropics of the South Pacific revealed from sedimentary charcoal analysis (2017)
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Mariani, M., & Michael-Shawn, F. (2017). Long-term climate dynamics in the extra-tropics of the South Pacific revealed from sedimentary charcoal analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 173, 181-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.007

How old is the Tasmanian cultural landscape? A test of landscape openness using quantitative land-cover reconstructions (2017)
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Mariani, M., Connor, S. E., Fletcher, M.-S., Theuerkauf, M., Kuneš, P., Jacobsen, G., …Zawadzki, A. (2017). How old is the Tasmanian cultural landscape? A test of landscape openness using quantitative land-cover reconstructions. Journal of Biogeography, 44(10), 2410-2420. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13040

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: To test competing hypotheses about the timing and extent of Holocene landscape opening using pollen-based quantitative land-cover estimates. Location: Dove Lake, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia.... Read More about How old is the Tasmanian cultural landscape? A test of landscape openness using quantitative land-cover reconstructions.

The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia (2016)
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Mariani, M., & Fletcher, M.-S. (2016). The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(4), 1702-1709. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068082

Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary mode of atmospheric variability in the Southern Hemisphere. While it is well established that the current anthropogenic‐driven trend in SAM is responsible for decreased rainfall in southern Australia, its ro... Read More about The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia.