BFCRC Legacy

Determining grassland fire danger with plant models

Issue 53: This project addresses the rate of natural die-off in common grass species and provides a way to adapt agricultural modelling to predict curing rates across temperate grasslands.

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Bushfire Safety for People with Special Needs

Issue 52 - This study looked at how households with special needs prepared for and met the challenge of a fire event, and how community education programs could improve their preparedness.

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Assessing Grassland Curing by Satellite

Issue 51 - To improve the assessment of grassland curing in Australia and NZ, this research developed an improved algorithm using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer satellite data.

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Effectiveness and efficiency of aerial fire fighting in Australia

Issue 50 - Bushfire CRC research examining the practical effectiveness and economic efficiency of aerial firefighting in Australia.

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Forest Flammability: How fire works and what it means for fuel control

Issue 49 - Forest Flammability is a next-generation fire behaviour model that reveals the complex links between fire behaviour and forest ecology.

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Historical patterns of bushfire in southern Western Australia

Issue 48: Understanding historical variation in bushfire patterns in southern Western Australia, to provide a baseline for future fire regime comparison.

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Plants and fire: survival in the bush

Issue 47: This research investigates the composition of plants with different fire response traits across a mountainous region of south-eastern Australia, and the role fire plays in these patterns.