Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change Impacts
The ACEAS working group has developed a framework to evaluate the extent to which fire regimes are driven by climate and other environmental variables, and whether these fire and environment relationships concord with: (a) predictions of the group of conceptual models recently developed; and (b) predictions of process-based models. The dataset provides a distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia ordered according to decreasing annual net primary productivity. The dataset published is the distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-06-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Charles Darwin University - Murphy, Brett ()
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia
Author
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
Author
University of Tasmania - Bowman, David (Professor)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Author
University of Wollongong - Bradstock, Ross ()
Northfields Ave Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia
Wollongong
New South Wales
2522
Australia
Author
Department of Environment and Science (2017-2023), Queensland Government - Carter, John ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Author
Australian National University - Cary, Geoff ()
10 East Road, Acton, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Author
South Dakota State University - Cochrane, Mark ()
1451 Stadium Road, Brookings, 57007, South Dakota, United States of America
Brookings
South Dakota
57007
United States of America
Author
University of Queensland - Fensham, Rod ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
Author
University of California - Krawchuk, Meg ()
University Avenue and Oxford Street, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America
Berkeley
California
94720
United States of America
Author
University of Melbourne - Price, Owen ()
500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond Victoria 3121, Australia
Richmond
Victoria
3121
Australia
Author
Bushfires NT, Northern Territory Government - Russell-Smith, Jeremy (Adjunct Research Fellow)
Corner of Townend Road and Stuart Highway, Acacia Hills, Northern Territory, 0822, Australia
Acacia Hills
Northern Territory
0822
Australia
Author
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Williams, Dick ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, Queensland, 4878, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Author
University of Tasmania - Williamson, Grant ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
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- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
University of Queensland - Murphy, Brett ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Chancellors Place
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Australia.
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- Time period
- 2013-01-01 2013-12-31
- Title
- Murphy B., Boer M., Bowman D., Bradstock R., Carter J., Cary G., Cochrane M., Fensham R., Krawchuk M., Price O., Russell-Smith J., Williams D. and Williamson G. (2013). Pyrogeography: integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire regimes to predict climate change impacts. Zenodo
- Title
- Murphy B. P., Bradstock R. A., Boer M. M., Carter J., Cary G. J., Cochrane M. A., Fensham R. J., Russell-Smith J., Williamson G. J., and Bowman D. M. J. S. (2013). Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system. Journal of Biogeography, 40(6): 1048-1058
- Website
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Murphy B. P., Bradstock R. A., Boer M. M., Carter J., Cary G. J., Cochrane M. A., Fensham R. J., Russell-Smith J., Williamson G. J., and Bowman D. M. J. S. (2013). Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system. Journal of Biogeography, 40(6): 1048-1058
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80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
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Australia
- OnLine resource
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Fire_regime_niches
Fire Regime Niches
- OnLine resource
- WFS link
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- To broadly characterise Australia’s fire regimes, we reclassified a continental-scale vegetation map, defining classes based on typical fuel (e.g. litter, grass, shrubs) and fire types (e.g. surface, crown, and ground). Classes were intersected with a broad climate classification to derive a map of twenty broad fire regimes. Using expert elicitation and a literature search, we validated each fire regime and characterised typical and extreme fire intensities and return intervals. Satellite-derived active fire detections were used to determine seasonal patterns of fire activity within fire regimes.
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Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
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urn:uuid/abd43890-c85e-4a60-9c27-d85ced2d81eb
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- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Dataset
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/abd43890-c85e-4a60-9c27-d85ced2d81eb
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- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-05-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:40:53.188587+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
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- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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