CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Australian Bushfire Conference, Albury, July 1999

Editors: Ian Lunt, David G. Green, Brian Lord

Contents

Robyn Adams and Dianne Simmons: Ecological Effects of Fire Fighting Foams and Retardants
Ahern, Andrew and Mark Chladil: How Far do Bushfires Penetrate Urban Areas?
Andrade, S. M. A.; Nascimento Neto, W. & Miranda, H. S.: The dynamics of components of the fine fuel after recurrent prescribed fires in Central Brazil savannas
Tony D. Auld and Mark G. Tozer: How well do post-fire indicators provide insights into the degree of soil heating during the passage of fires?
Baxter, Gregory J. and Simon J.R.Woodward: Estimating grassland curing using soil moisture indicators and a pasture quality model
Peter Brookhouse: Lightning detection and operations systems in North America
Peter Brookhouse: Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve Fire Management Plan
Peter Brookhouse and Don Nicholson: Large Pilliga Fires and the development of fire management and fire suppression strategies
N.D. Burrows, B. Ward and A.D Robinson: The Role of Indicators in Developing Appropriate Fire Regimes
Ty M. Caling and Robyn Adams: Ecological Impacts of Fire Suppression Operations in a Small Vegetation Remnant
Catchpole, W.R., Bradstock, R.A.., Choate, J., Fogarty, L.G., Gellie, N., McCarthy, G.J., McCaw, W.L., Marsden-Smedley, J.B., and Pearce, G.: Cooperative Development of Prediction Equations for Fire Behaviour in Heathlands and Shrublands
Chladil, MA.: Working with the Stakeholders to Provide Integrated Planning Responses to Bushfires
Jemery R. Day, Shane A. Richards, Hugh P. Possingham: Management of Fire to Maintain Habitat for Threatened Bird Species in Ngarkat Conservation Park
Andrew J. Denham and Tony D. Auld: The timing of post-fire recruitment and impact of seed predation in resprouting plants whose flowering is linked to fire
Grahame Douglas: Bush Fire Risk Management Planning: A new name for an old toy or will it help biodiversity?
Paul O. Downey: Fire and Weeds: a management option or Pandora’s box?
Michael Driessen: Effects of fire on the broad-toothed mouse, Mastacomys fuscus, and other small mammals in buttongrass moorlands of western Tasmania – preliminary findings
Angus Duguid: Protecting Acacia undoolyana from Wildfires: an Example of Off Park Conservation from Central Australia
Andrew Edwards, Grant Allan, Cameron Yates, Craig Hempel and Paul Ryan: A Comparative Assessment of Fire Mapping Techniques and User Interpretations using Landsat Imagery
Gordon Friend, Michael Leonard, Andrew Maclean and Ingrid Sieler: Management of Fire for the Conservation of Biodiversity: New Initiatives in Victoria
Beth Gott: Fire as an Aboriginal Management Tool in south-eastern Australia
David G. Green: Simulations of bushfires and connectivity in landscape ecology
Deryn Griffiths: Drought Factor Algorithm in McArthur’s Forest Fire Danger Meter
Simon G. Haberle, Geoff S. Hope and Sander Van der Kaars: Long-term Record of Fire from Indonesia and New Guinea
Stuart G. James: Evaluation of the effectiveness of prescribed burns: a simple methodology for post-burn assessment of the achievement of fire management objectives
Jasper, Raymond G.: The changing direction of land managers in reducing the threat from major bushfires on the urban interface of Sydney
Glen A Johnson: The Role of Fire in Phalaris and Paspalum Control in Grassy Ecosystems
Belinda J. Kenny: The role of fire-related cues in the germination of two Sydney Grevillea species
Margaret Kitchin and Nick Reid: Fire history – what can you do without it? Deriving the context for a fire ecology study by integrating satellite imagery and local information
Ian Knight and Andrew Sullivan: Quantifying error in wind speed measurement for experimental fires
Byron B Lamont, Chantal L Burrows, Wendy Colangelo, Perry W Swanborough and David Ward: Grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea spp.) and the fire history of sites
Justin E. Leonard and Neville A. McArthur: A History of Research into Building Performance in Australian Bushfires
Richard H. Loyn: Assessing effects of fire regimes on birds in forest landscapes
Jon B. Marsden-Smedley, Tim Rudman, Adrian Pyrke and Wendy R. Catchpole: Buttongrass moorland fire behaviour prediction system
Jon B. Marsden-Smedley, Alen Slijepcevic, John Hickey and Dick Chuter: Fuel characteristics of Eucalyptus obliqua wet forest communities and the effect of logging on fuels at Warra, Tasmania
Jon B. Marsden-Smedley: Fire management in Tasmania’s World Heritage Area: challenges for the next century
Richard H. D. McRae: Sharing spatial data
Simon Millie and Robyn Adams: Measures of Grassland Curing: a comparison of destructive sampling with visual and satellite estimates
Graham A. Mills: Mesoscale Modelling of Wind flows for Operational Fire Weather Forecasts
Patrick T. Moss and A. Peter Kershaw: Evidence from Marine ODP Site 820 of Fire/Vegetation/Climate Patterns in the Humid Tropics of Australia over the Last 250,000 Years
Ian G. Murray: Social Science Research and Bushfire Evacuation
Peter J. Neville: The effects of prescribed burning and wildfire on epigaeic invertebrates of the Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia
Peta Norris and Brian Conroy: Fire ecology of soil and leaf litter invertebrates
Bruce Paix: Improving Burnover Protection for Australian Bushfire Appliances
Daniel Polakow, William Bond, Nicholas Lindenberg and Timothy Dunne: Ecosystem Engineering as a Consequence of Natural Selection: Methods for Testing Mutch’s Hypothesis from a Comparative Study of Fire Hazard Rates
Daniel Polakow and Timothy Dunne: Stochastic Elements in Fire-Recurrence: A Two-Parameter Weibull Model, and its Associated Interpretation and Applications
L. C. Rainey & R. F. Conwell: Rural Fire Management in a Sub-Monsoonal Rural Fire Region
Rod Rose, Gabrielle Wiltshire and Sebastian Lang: The importance and application of spatial patterns in the management of fire regimes for the protection of life and property and the conservation of biodiversity
Jonathan Sanders: Observations of Fire Behaviour in Eucalypt Woodland near the Hunter Valley, N.S.W., and Recommendations for Control Strategies in Extreme Conditions
Ingrid M. Sieler and Jill Read: Fire Protection Planning and Conservation
Dianne Simmons and Robyn Adams: Fuel Loads and Characteristics in Some Structurally Diverse Vegetation Types in Victoria
David T. Smith: Mapping the bushfire danger of Hobart
M. S. Speer, L. M. Leslie, W. Catchpole and R. Bradstock: Predicting Spread Rates for the Sydney January 1994 Fires
Elizabeth Tasker, Ross Bradstock, and Christopher Dickman: Small Mammal Diversity and Abundance in Relation to Fire and Grazing History in the Eucalypt Forests of northern New South Wales
Cuong Tran and Adrian Pyrke: Wind Speed Reduction Factors in a Heathy Woodland
Andrew Treloar and Peter Brookhouse: The use of accumulated rainfall maps from weather radar systems to assist wildfire detection reconnaissance
Keith L. Twyford: Implications of a Large Areal Wildfire on Biodiversity Conservation within the Cape Gantheaume Protected Areas, Kangaroo Island.
Orestis Denis Valianatos, Tony Bannister, Peter Billing: The use of meso LAPS and HYSPLIT_4 for smoke management in Victoria
Paul F. van Heurck, Gordon .R. Friend and Matthew R. Williams: Linking biodiversity and ecosystem function: the impact of fire and fire seasonality on litter dwelling beetles of the temperate jarrah forest
C-H. A. Wahren, W.A. Papst and R.J. Williams: Post-fire regeneration in Victorian alpine and subalpine vegetation

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