Abstract
Tasmania is a large island (68,401 km2) that lies 200 km south of the south-eastern Australian mainland [...]
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IntroductionEmbedded in large tracts of flammable Eucalyptus forests and treeless vegetation are more geographically restricted fire-sensitive vegetation types such as wet and dry rainforests and alpine shrublands (Figure 1)
Management of Complex Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Introduction
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Summary
Embedded in large tracts of flammable Eucalyptus forests and treeless vegetation are more geographically restricted fire-sensitive vegetation types such as wet and dry rainforests and alpine shrublands (Figure 1) The biota of these fire-sensitive habitats include numerous ‘living fossils’ with direct roots to the Gondwanan supercontinent [5]: the terrains of Tasmania formed the last geological connection between the Australian and Antarctic land masses before they were separated by continental drift some 60 million years ago. Vegetation broken down by fire requiring and fire sensitive types, derived from TasVeg 4.0 mapping [10] This constellation of biogeographic factors has made the island of Tasmania a fasciThis constellation of biogeographic factors has made the island of Tasmania a fascinating and globally significant ‘pyrogeographic laboratory’.
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