Flammability of Australian forests

Flammability of Australian forests

1CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 2School of Resources, Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia 3Email: [email protected] 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University College, University of NSW, Campbell, ACT 2602, Australia 5Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, Australia 6Snowy Mountains Region Fire ...

Mulch Flammability

Introduction Regardless of how horrible and devastating wildland fires are portrayed by the media, they are a natural disturbance that many native ecosystems depend on for regeneration. As the population of the United States increases, more individuals are building their homes in wildlands rather than urban landscapes. Homes built in undeveloped wildland vegetation create areas often referred t...

Ecology of Fire-Tolerant Podocarps in Temperate Australian Forests

Podocarpus drouynianus and P. spinulosus are two unusual conifers restricted to southwestern and eastern Australia, respectively. The species are morphologically similar and genetically closely related to each other but rather distant from other members of the subgenus Foliolatus. Both species have retained ancestral podocarp characteristics such as dioecy, wind pollination, and large, animaldi...

Feeding selectivity of sesarmid crabs from northern Australian mangrove forests

Sesarmid crabs are possibly one of the most important components of mangrove fauna because of their influence on nutrient cycling and forest structure by feeding on litterfall. Little is known about the influence of electivity on the role of crabs in mangrove forests, and how this is affected by the availability of litter items. this study investigated electivity of three northern australian se...

Flammability Properties of Hydraulic Fluids