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Copyright 1998
PROGRAM
Wednesday 7 July, Main Theatre
8:30 Welcome
Keynote papers
:
History of fire and vegetation in Australia
9:00 Kershaw, A. Peter,
James S. Clark and A. Malcolm Gill.
A history of fire in Australia
9:30 Clark, James S
.
Spatial variability in fire regimes: its effects on recent and past vegetation
10:15
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
10:45 Murray, Ian
.
Social science research and bushfire evacuation
11:05 Rainey, Lance C
. and Robert F. Conwell.
Rural fire management in a sub-monsoonal rural region
11:25 Carroll, Matthew S
., Keith Blatner, Gregg Walker and Steven Daniels.
The 1994 Wenachee National Forest Fire experience: a case study of social dynamics
11:45 Chladil, M.A
.
Working with the stakeholders to provide integrated planning responses to bushfires
12:05 Leonard, Justin E.
and Neville A. McArthur.
A history of research into building performance in Australian bushfires
12:25 Covey, B.
Static water supply program: reducing the impact of urban/bushland interface fires through partnerships and the use of community resources and education
12:45
Lunch
OPEN FORUM
1:45 James, Stuart G
.
Evaluation of the effectiveness of prescribed burns: a simple methodology for post-burn assessment of the achievement of fire management objectives
2:05 Brookhouse, Peter
and Don Nicholson.
Large Pilliga fires and the development of fire management and fire suppression strategies
2:25 Paix, Bruce
R
.
Improving burnover protection for Australian bushfire appliances
2:45 Ahern, Andrew
and Mark Chladil.
How far do bushfires penetrate urban areas?
3:05 Sanders, Jonathan
.
Wildfire under extreme conditions: observations of fire behaviour during January 1994 and December 1997 in the Hawkesbury River and Hunter Valley regions, and October 1994 in the Guy Fawkes River area, and recommendations for fire control strategies under extreme conditions
Wednesday 7 July, Main Theatre
3:25
Afternoon Tea
INVITED PAPERS
3:55 Catchpole, Wendy
.
Predicting fire properties and burn patterns in heterogeneous landscapes
4:25 Noble, James C.
and Anthony C. Grice.
Fire in pastoral landscapes: managing biological diversity and ecosystem function
4:55 Grice, A.C.
and J.C. Noble.
Landscape restoration using fire regimes
5:25 POSTER NIGHT AND CARVERY
Wednesday 7 July, Theatrette
8:30-10:15 WELCOME AND KEYNOTE PAPERS
IN MAIN THEATRE
10:15
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
10:45 York, Alan
and David Britton.
Impacts of grazing and burning on forest biodiversity
11:05 Tasker, Elizabeth
, Ross Bradstock and Christopher Dickman.
Small mammal diversity and abundance in relation to fire and grazing history in eucalypt forests of northern New South Wales, Australia
11:25 van Heurck, Paul F
., 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
11:45 Norris, Peta
and Brian Conroy.
Fire ecology of soil and leaf litter invertebrates
12:05 Neville, Peter J
.
The effects of prescribed burning and wildfire on epigaeic invertebrates of the Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia
12:25 Loyn, Richard H
.
Assessing and managing effects of fire regimes on birds in forest landscapes
Wednesday 7 July, Theatrette
12:45
Lunch
OPEN FORUM
1:45 Douglas, Grahame B
.
Bush fire risk management planning: A new name for an old toy or will it help biodiversity?
2:05 Burrows, Neil
, Bruce Ward and Alex Robinson.
Fire regimes and biodiversity in jarrah forests
2:25 Marsden-Smedley, Jon B
.
Habitat-management burning in Tasmania's World Heritage Area
2:45 Polakow, Daniel
, 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
3:05 Day, Jemery R
. and Possingham, Hugh P.
Management of fire to maintain habitat for threatened bird species in Ngarkat Conservation Park, South Australia
3:25
Afternoon Tea
INVITED PAPERS
3:55 Allan, Grant
.
Fire regimes in the spinifex landscapes of Australia
4:25 Griffin, Graham
.
Contemporary fire management of landscapes by Aboriginal people
4:55 McCarthy, Michael A
. and Geoffrey J. Cary.
Fire regimes of landscapes: models and realities
5:25 POSTER NIGHT AND CARVERY
Thursday 8 July, Main Theatre
OPEN FORUM
8:30 Jasper
Raymond G
.
The changing direction of land managers in reducing the threat from major bush fires on the urban interface of Sydney
8:50 Rose, Rod
, 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
9:10 Friend, Gordon
, Michael Leonard, Andrew MacLean and Ingrid Sieler.
Management of fire for the conservation of biodiversity: new initiatives in Victoria
9:30 Twyford, Keith L
.
Management policy and planning implications of a large wildfire within the Cape Gantheaume protected areas, Kangaroo Island
9:50 Sieler, Ingrid M
. and Jill Read.
Fire protection planning and conservation
10:10
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
10:40 Polakow, Daniel
and Timothy Dunne.
Stochastic elements in fire-recurrence: A two-parameter Weibull model, and its associated interpretation and applications
11:00 Tran, Cuong
and Adrian Pyrke.
Wind speed reduction factors in a heathy woodland
11:20 Knight, Ian
and Andrew Sullivan.
Quantifying error in wind speed measurement for experimental fires
11:40 Valianatos, Orestis Denis
, Tony Bannister and Peter Billing.
The use of meso LAPS and HYSPLIT_4 for smoke management in Victoria
12:00
Lunch
INVITED PAPERS
1:00 Keith, D.A
., W.L. McCaw and R.J. Whelan.
Fire in Australian heathlands: Its behaviour and effects on plants and animals
1:30 Williams, Richard J
. and Anthony D. Griffiths.
Fire regimes and biodiversity in the wet-dry tropical savanna landscapes of northern Australia
2:00
Rutherglen Bus Tour
7:00
Conference Dinner
Thursday 8 July, Theatrette
OPEN FORUM
8:30 Wahren, C.H
., W.A. Papst and R.J. Williams.
Post-fire regeneration in Victorian alpine and subalpine vegetation
8:50 Duguid, Angus
.
Protecting
Acacia undoolyana
from wildfires: an example of off park conserv ation from central Australia
9:10 Auld, Tony D
. and Mark G. Tozer.
Are there post-fire indicators that provide insights into the degree of soil heating during the passage of fires?
9:30 Denham, Andrew
and Tony D. Auld.
The timing of post-fire recruitment and the nature of seed dispersal and predation in resprouting plants whose flowering is linked to fire
9:50 Kenny, Belinda J
.
Fire-related germination cues in
Grevillea
speciosa
and
G. sericea
10:10
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
10:40 Smith, David T
.
Mapping the bushfire danger of Hobart
11:00 Edwards, Andrew
, Grant Allan, Cameron Yates, Paul Ryan and Craig Hempel.
A comparative assessment of fire mapping techniques and user interpretations using Landsat imagery
11:20 Kitchin, Margaret B
. and Nick Reid.
Fire history - what do you do without it? Deriving the context for a fire ecology study by integrating satellite imagery and local information
11:40 McRae, Rick
.
Sharing spatial data
12:00
Lunch
INVITED PAPERS
1:00 Hodgkinson, Ken
and Tony Start.
Mulga and other
Acacia
shrublands
1:30 Bradstock, R.A.
and J.S. Cohn.
Fires regimes and biodiversity in semi-arid mallee ecosystems
2:00
Rutherglen Bus Tour
7:00
Conference Dinner
Friday 9 July, Main Theatre
8:30 Gill, A. Malcolm
and Peter C. Catling.
Fire regimes and biodiversity of forested landscapes of southern Australia
9:00 Russell-Smith, Jeremy
and Peter Stanton.
Fire regimes and fire management of rainforest communities across northern Australia: a review
9:30 Whelan, Rob
, Lou Rodgerson, Chris Dickman and Liz Sutherland.
Critical life cycles of plants and animals - evolution and extinction in fire-prone landscapes
10:00 Cary, Geoffrey J
.
Importance of a changing climate for fire regimes in Australia
10:30
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
11:00 Millie, Simon
and Robyn Adams.
Measures of grassland curing: a comparison of destructive sampling with visual and satellite estimates
11:20 Adams, Robyn
and Dianne Simmons.
Ecological effects of fire fighting foams and retardants
11:40 Simmons, Dianne
.
Fuel loads and characteristics in some structurally diverse vegetation types
12:00 Andrade, Saulo M.A
., Walter N. Neto and Heloisa S. Miranda.
The dynamics of the components of the fine fuel after recurrent prescribed fires in Central Brazil savannas
12:20
Lunch
OPEN FORUM
1:20 Catchpole, Wendy
, Ross Bradstock, John Choate, Liam Fogarty, Nic Gellie, Greg McCarthy, Lachie McCaw, Jon Marsden-Smedley and Grant Pearce.
Cooperative development of prediction equations for fire behaviour in heathlands and shrublands
1:40 Green, David G
.
Simulations of bushfires and connectivity in landscape ecology
2:00 Speer, M.S
., L. M. Leslie, W. Catchpole and R. Bradstock.
Predicting spread rates for the Sydney January 1994 fires
2:20 Mills, Graham A
.
Mesoscale modelling of wind flows for fire weather forecasts
2:40 Catchpole, E.A
., W. Low, A.M. Gill and M.A. McCarthy.
Spotting changes in fire frequency
3:00
Closing Session
3:30
End / Afternoon Tea
Friday 9 July, Theatrette
INVITED PAPERS
8:30 Hobbs, Richard
.
Fire in temperate woodlands
9:00 Lunt, Ian D
.
and John W. Morgan.
The role of fire in temperate lowland grasslands of south-eastern Australia
9:30
Williams, Jann,
David Keith
and John Woinarski.
Biodiversity conservation and fire manage ment – from policy to practice
10:00 Tolhurst, Kevin G
.
and W. Lachlan McCaw.
Fire management in forests for wood, water and biodiversity
10:30
Morning Tea
OPEN FORUM
11:00 Johnson, Glen A
.
The role of fire in
Phalaris
and
Paspalum
control in grassy ecosystems
11:20 Caling, Ty M
. and Robyn Adams.
The ecological impacts of fire suppression operations in a small urban remnant, Mt. Martha, Victoria
11:40 Downey, Paul O
.
Fire and weeds: a management option or Pandora's box?
12:00 Vranjic, John A
. and Richard H. Groves.
Fire as part of an integrated control strategy for the South African weed, Bitou Bush (
Chrysanthemoides monilifera
subsp
. rotundata
)
12:20
Lunch
OPEN FORUM
1:20 Moss, Patrick T
. 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
1:40 Haberle, Simon G
. and Geoff S. Hope.
Palaeoecological implications of fire records from New Guinea and South East Asia
2:00 Lamont, Byron B
., Chantal L. Burrows, Wendy Colangelo, Perry W. Swanborough and David Ward.
Grasstrees (
Xanthorrhoea
species) and the fire history of sites
2:20 Mooney, Scott David
.
A comparison of the historic fire record and several methods for the recon struction of fire using the sediments of Lake Keilambete, western Victoria
2:40 Gott, Beth
.
Fire as an Aboriginal management tool in south-eastern Australia
3:00
Closing Session in Main Theatre
3:30
End / Afternoon Tea
