Title
Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management
Author(s)
Lindenmayer, David B.;Kooyman, Robert M.;Taylor, Chris;Ward, Michelle;Watson, James E. M.
Published
2020
Publisher
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Abstract
The recent fires in southern Australia were unprecedented in scale and severity. Much commentary has rightly focused on the role of climate change in exacerbating the risk of fire. Here, we contend that policy makers must recognize that historical and contemporary logging of forests has had profound effects on these fires’ severity and frequency.
Keywords
conservation biology;fire ecology;forestry
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