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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

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/g4d7-3j27
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

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
Website
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
  • Environment

Extent

Description
Australia.
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Temporal extent

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
Website
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

Related documentation

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
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

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • FIRE ECOLOGY
  • FIRE MODELS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Ecology
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • fire regime
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
File name
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Other constraints
Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Fire_regime_niches

Fire Regime Niches

OnLine resource
WFS link

OnLine resource
Landscape Data Visualiser - Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change Impacts

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.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/abd43890-c85e-4a60-9c27-d85ced2d81eb

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/abd43890-c85e-4a60-9c27-d85ced2d81eb

Point-of-truth metadata URL

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

Metadata standard

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

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
FIRE ECOLOGY FIRE MODELS

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