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Is more or less fire needed in northern savannas? Fire history (and optimal management) varies with land use and land type.
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Author
Cowley, R.
Jenner, D.
Publisher
Australian Rangeland Society
Publication Year
2015
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Fire management recommended for biodiversity conservation and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions (reduce late dry season fire) contrasts to that for managing woody plant thickening on
pastoral lands (increase late dry season fire). To investigate whether contrasting fire regimes are
justified, fire history derived from AVHRR imagery was used to analyse fire frequency between 1997
and 2010 in the Victoria River District (VRD) of the Northern Territory. Fire frequency for all fires
(January to December), and late dry season fires (August to December) were derived for . . . . .

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Poster
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It is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner:
Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet? Tracking state and change in Australia's rangelands. In Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Alice Springs (Ed M.H. Friedel) [Australian Rangeland Society: Perth]
Collection
Australian Rangelands
Keywords
Australia
fire frequency
fire management
savanna burning