Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction ...

Prescribed burning in the Mount Lofty Ranges to reduce bushfire risks may be threatening the survival and biodiversity of ...

Indigenous communities practiced controlled burning with deep knowledge of local ecosystems, emphasizing the importance of fire in maintaining ecological health. For centuries, Indigenous peoples ...

Fire is a consistent thread in my research, and I study fire ecology across a broad range of scales from individual trees to entire regions. I am also a member of the CoLaborative for Intersectoral ...

The NJ Pine Barrens is a fire adapted community with a lot of endemic species adapted to fires. However, the fire ecology has greatly been altered in the past few decades mainly due to anthropogenic ...

Our top-ranked geography program allows students to combine fields of inquiry—from indigenous mapping and fire ecology to GIS and social landscapes of war and recovery. Geographers often work in ...

Our students become talented critical thinkers who are skilled in GIS, Indigenous mapping, fire ecology, and social landscapes of war and recovery, and who apply these skills in a range of careers.

This involves a range of tools, including field and laboratory studies, remote sensing and process-based modeling. Faculty in fire ecology span many areas of expertise, including ecology, hydrology, ...

Fire has played a major role in shaping the world's grasslands and forests. Attempts to eliminate it have introduced problems fully as serious as those created by accidental conflagrations ...