Key topics

fuel reduction

Fuel reduction is the manipulation, including combustion, or removal of fuels to reduce the likelihood of ignition and/or to lessen potential damage and resistance to control.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
24 Oct 2016	Wet forest fuels: managing Tasmania's most dangerous fuel type	Resource	save (1.41 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, modelling
	Assessing post-fire recovery of flora and fauna in mechanical fuel reduction E. sieberi forests after wildfires 2020	Project		environments, fire impacts, fuel reduction
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes	Project	save (0 bytes)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project		fire, fuel reduction, land management
	Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsbury Shire	Project		fire severity, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Post-Cyclone Marcia fuel assessment	Project		cyclone, fuel reduction, risk management
	Scenario planning for remote community risk management in northern Australia	Project	save (0 bytes)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project		fire, fuel reduction
	Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
14 Jul 2016	Optimising fuel reduction burning - project update	News		fire, fuel reduction, planning
13 May 2015	To burn or not to burn?	News		fuel reduction, land management, prescribed burning
31 Aug 2017	The great escapes	News		fuel reduction, prescribed burning, risk management
09 May 2016	Mitigating disasters: the inconvenient truth	News		flood, fuel reduction, mitigation
20 Feb 2020	National science forum on fire fuels	News		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
01 Jun 2020	Savanna fire	News		framework, fuel reduction, savanna grasslands
05 Nov 2015	Insights on fire prediction	News		fire severity, fuel reduction, risk management
16 Jul 2018	Twenty years of northern fire talks	News		fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
03 Apr 2017	Fire mapping with satellites and smart phones	News		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
07 Jan 2016	CRC student awarded for research paper	News		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
13 Mar 2020	Cancellation of National Fire Fuels Science Forum	News		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
13 Jan 2016	Inconvenient truth about disaster mitigation	Blog		fuel reduction, mitigation, policy
26 Jun 2015	Dirt and Data	Blog		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
01 Apr 2020	If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips	Blog		environments, fuel reduction, risk management
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
14 Apr 2015	Scan and burn in the ACT	Blog		fuel reduction, land management, prescribed burning
	Sources of soil dryness measures and forecasts for fire danger rating	Biblio	save (3.7 MB)	forecasting, fuel reduction, modelling
	Mapping spatial and temporal variation in tree water use with an elevation model and gridded temperature data	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for carbon, water and vegetation outcomes	Biblio		environments, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (410.45 KB)	fuel reduction, optimisation, prescribed burning
	Seasonal fine fuel and coarse woody debris dynamics in north Australian savannas	Biblio		fuel reduction, land management, savanna grasslands
	A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
	Fire eases imbalances of nitrogen and phosphorus in woody plants	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Can a growth model be used to describe forest carbon and water balance after fuel reduction burning in temperate forests?	Biblio		environments, fuel reduction, modelling
	Near infrared spectroscopy as a new fire severity metric	Biblio	save (2.33 MB)	fire severity, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Model predictions for fuel reduction burning of eucalypt open forest in the greater Blue Mountains region	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	High-Resolution Estimates of Fire Severity - An Evaluation of UAS Image and LiDAR Mapping Approaches on a Sedgeland Forest Boundary in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	Contemporary fire regime risks to key ecological assets and processes in north Australian savannas	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Plasticity of leaf respiratory and photosynthetic traits in Eucalyptus grandis and E. regnans grown under variable light and nitrogen availability	Biblio		environments, fuel reduction, land management
	Calibration of water balance using digital photography	Biblio	save (1.46 MB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning