Australia—A Model System for the Development of Pyrogeography

Fire Ecology

Brett P. Murphy¹  David M. J. S. Bowman¹ 

[1] School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

关键词: Australia;    climate change;    eucalypts;    Eucalyptus;    fire regimes;    natural disasters;   

DOI  :  10.4996/fireecology.0701005

学科分类：生态、进化、行为和系统

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We define pyrogeography as an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective of landscape fire, its ecological effects, and its relationships with human societies. Like biogeography, this program spans geographic scales from the local to the global, has an evolutionary frame, and thus a geological dimension. And, like other geographic disciplines, pyrogeography has a clear commitment to understanding the interrelationships between cultures and their environment. We illustrate our approach by considering the pyrogeography of Australia. We demonstrate how a long history of fire has had a pervasive influence on the continent’s biota. While Aborigines coexisted with flammable landscapes for millennia, contemporary Australian society is still learning to live in a land of fire.

【 授权许可】

CC BY