袋熊森林中的 FESA：长期规定火实验带来的机遇和挑战.pdf

1、FESA in the Wombat Forest:Opportunities and challenges presented by long-term prescribed fire experimentsForestry Australia:2024 Fire SummitAssoc.Prof.Lauren Bennett(&colleagues)School of Agriculture,Food and Ecosystem SciencesThe University of MelbourneImage:J.Najera2Acknowledgement of Country Staf

2、f and Graduate Research Students at The University of Melbourne Colleagues at DEECA(and predecessors)and Arthur Rylah Institute Integrated Forest Ecosystem Research(IFER)Program supported by DEECAI acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land the Wurundjeri people and of the land of the FESA expe

3、riment the Dja Dja Wurrung,Wadawurrung,and Wurundjeri peoples.I would like to pay my respects to their Elders,past and present,and their families.Thanks to:Andersen 2021Australian fire experimentsYork and Lewis 2018Image:J.NajeraFire Effects Study Areas(FESA)Image:J.NajeraFESA-Wombat Forest-Mixed-sp

4、ecies eucalypt forest-Messmate-Peppermint-Gum-Five locations-First prescribed fire burns 1985 to 1987(Tolhurst 1992;DSE 2003)Image:A.EutslerDSE FESA Summary Report(2003),Foreword:I would like to also pay particular tribute to Dr Kevin Tolhurst,of the University of Melbourne,who has so ably kept the

5、project on the rails over the last two decades and who has coped so patiently with many funding and organizational vicissitudes.Gary Morgan,(then)Chief Fire Officer,Department of Sustainability and EnvironmentFESA ObjectivesTo assess effects of planned burning on:The flora,fauna and soils;The functi

6、onal processes of dry sclerophyll forest ecosystems;and The short-and long-term stability of such ecosystems.Address key questions about managing fuel reductions programs,and provide a research resource for studies of new variablesTolhurst,1992Tolhurst&Loyn,2011ControlSpring 3 yearly(6-7 burns)Sprin