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Design considerations for post natural disaster (fire) on-ground assessment of status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats
Documents and publications

This report aims to highlight design considerations for conducting surveys to assess fire severity, habitat condition, threats, and the status of priority threatened species and ecological communities listed as most vulnerable to the 2019-20 wildfires.

University of Melbourne
Rainforest bird communities threatened by extreme fire
Documents and publications

This article presents the investigative analysis of the recovery of rainforest bird communities one-year after the 2019-2020 bushfires in Australia.

BUSHFIRE RECOVERY PROJECT No. 2
Documents and publications

This report is one of a series of Bushfire Science Reports prepared by the Bushfire Recovery Project, presenting the latest evidence from the scientific literature about bushfires, climate change and the native forests of southern and eastern Australia

Griffith University
Australian National University
BURNT ASSETS The 2019-2020 Australian Bushfires
Documents and publications

This report explores how to value the environmental impacts of bushfires, illustrated with a simple analysis of how greenhouse gas emissions from bushfires reduce forest carbon (stocks), which are then partially restored through natural regrowth (flows).

World Wide Fund For Nature
Implications of the 2019–2020 megafires for the biogeography and conservation of Australian vegetation
Documents and publications

This article presents the impacts of the Australia's 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires on vascular plant species and communities.

Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund: Respond, Restore, and Build a Resilient Future
Documents and publications

This document provides the overview of the World Wildlife Fund Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund's response and recovery efforts for the 2019-2020 Bushfires in Australia.

World Wide Fund For Nature
Australia: After the bushfires
Documents and publications

This article of the UNESCO Courier focusing on restoring biodiversity and reviving life, shares the story of the effects of 2019-2020 bushfires on the biodiversity in Australia.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
2019-20 South Australian Bushfire Recovery Interim Report
Documents and publications
Reports and analysis

This Report tells the story of the Yorketown, Cudlee Creek, Kangaroo Island and other fires in 2019-2020 and the achievements of the early recovery phase across the four domains of recovery: social, economic, built environment and the natural environment.

Australia - government
Primary Succession along an Elevation Gradient 15 Years after the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines
Documents and publications

This is the detailed survey of vegetation on newly created volcanic surfaces in the Mount Pina-tubo, Luzon, Philippines and provides a baseline for understanding the landscape-level processes determining continuing succession.

Monitoring the recolonization of the Mt Pinatubo 1991 ash layer by benthic foraminifera
Documents and publications

Benthic foraminifera from the South China Sea were studied to assess mass mortality and to monitor the composition and recovery of the benthic communities following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo ashfall.