Wildfires: Characteristics, drivers and impacts on cultural sites

Grant Williamson; Jessie Buettel

Wildfires: Characteristics, drivers and impacts on cultural sites

Grant Williamson^*
, Jessie Buettel

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Australia is a continent shaped over many millennia by fire. The flora and fauna, from tropical savannas, to the arid interior, to the wet forests of southeastern Australia, have lived and evolved under fire, and many have traits that let them tolerate and thrive under this disturbance. People have also lived alongside landscape fire, and have used it as a tool for many thousands of years (e.g., Adeleye et al. 2021; Haberle et al. 2010). However, not all fires are created equal; cool burns in the cooler months have very different behaviours and impacts on Country than the intense, difficult-to-control wildfires that dominate the summer months.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fires in GunaiKurnai Country
Subtitle of host publication	Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
Publisher	Archaeopress
Chapter	2
Pages	13-20
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781803274829
ISBN (Print)	9781803274812
Publication status	Published - 22 Jun 2023
Externally published	Yes

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