Resources: Readings
Climate, vegetation & fire
Bond, W.J. & van Wilgen, B.W. (1996) Surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses (From Chapter 3). - pp.36, 47, 38-42, 50 & Map from inside cover. Fire and Plants. Chapman & Hall, London.
Bond, W.J., Woodward, F.I., Midgley, G.F. (2005) The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire . New Phytologist165: 525-538.
Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning : understanding and using fire in northern Australia, pp. 36-37. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.
Individual level
Bond, W.J. & van Wilgen, B.W. (1996) Fire and Plants, pp. 38-42. Chapman & Hall, London.
Burrows, G. E (2002) Epicormic strand structure in Angophora, Eucalyptus and Lophostemon (Myrtaceae) – implications for fire resistance and recovery. New Phytologist 153: 111-131.
Lacey, C.J. & Whelan, P.I. (1976) Observations on the ecological significance of vegetative reproduction in the Katherine-Darwin region of the Northern Territory. Australian Forestry 39: 131-139.
Population level
Bond, W.J. & van Wilgen, B.W. (1996) Fire and Plants, pp. 47 & 50. Chapman & Hall, London.
Bowman, D.M.J.S. & Panton, W.J. (1993) Decline of Callitris intratropica R.T.Baker & H.G. Smith in the Northern Territory: implications for pre- and post-European colonisation fire regimes. Journal of Biogeography 20: 373-381.
Friend, G.R. (1993) Impact of fire on small vertebrates in mallee woodlands and heathlands of temperate Australia: a review. Biological Conservation 65: 99-114.
Gill, A.M. (1981) Adaptive responses of Australian vascular plant species to fires. In: Fire and the Australian Biota (A.M. Gill, R.H. Groves & I.R. Noble, eds.), p. 582. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra.
Noble, I.R. & Slatyer, R.O. (1980) The use of vital attributes to predict successional changes in plant communities subject to recurrent disturbance. Vegetation 43: 5-21.
Russell-Smith, J., Ryan, P.G. & Cheal, D. (2002) Fire regimes and the conservation of sandstone heath in monsoonal northern Australia: frequency, interval, patchiness. Biological Conservation 104: 91-106.
Pardon, L.G., Brook, B.W., Griffiths, A.D. & Braithwaite, R.W. (2003) Determinants of survival for the northern brown bandicoot under a landscape-scale fire experiment. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 106-115.
Setterfield, S.A. (2002) Seedling establishment in an Australian tropical savanna: effects of seed supply, soil disturbance and fire. Journal of Applied Ecology 39: 949-959.
Williams, R.J., Cook, G.D., Gill, A.M., Moore, P.H.R. (1999) Fire regime, intensity and tree survival in a tropical savanna in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 24: 50-59.
Williams, R.J., Griffiths, A.D. & Allan, G.E. (2002) Fire regimes and biodiversity in the savannas of northern Australia. In: Flammable Australia (Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J.E. & Gill, A.M., eds.), pp. 289-293. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Zammit, C. & Westoby, M. (1988) Pre-dispersal seed losses and the survival of seeds and seedlings of two serotinous Banksia shrubs in burnt and unburnt heath. Journal of Ecology 76: 200-214.
Community level
Andersen, A.N. (1991) Responses of ground-foraging ant communities to three experimental fire regimes in a savanna forest of tropical Australia. Biotropica 23: 575-585.
Andersen, A.N., Cook, G.D. & Williams, R.J. (2003) Synthesis: Fire ecology and adaptive conservation management. In: Fire in Tropical Savannas (A.N. Andersen, G.D. Cook, R.J. Williams, eds.), p. 157. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Bond, W.J. & van Wilgen, B.W. (1996) Fire and Plants, p. 153. Chapman & Hall, London.
Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning : understanding and using fire in northern Australia, pp. 40-44. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.
Luger, A.D. & Moll, E.J. (1992) Fire protection and afromontane forest expansion in Cape fynbos. Biological Conservation 64: 51-56.
Parr, C.L, Robertson, H.G, Biggs, H.C. & Chown, S.L. (2004) Responses of African savanna ants to long-term fire regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 603-642
Pyne, S.J., Andrews P.L. & Laven R.D. (1996) Introduction to Wildland Fire, pp 198-202. Wiley, New York.
Turner, M.G., Romme, W.H. & Tinker, D.B. (2003) Surprises and lessons from the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 1: 351-358.
Williams, R.J., Muller, W.J., Wahren, C-H., Setterfield, S.A. & Cusack, J. (2003) Vegetation. In: Fire in Tropical Savannas (A.N. Andersen, G.D. Cook, R.J. Williams, eds.), pp. 105-106. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Impacts of fire on landscape and atmosphere
Aranibar, J.N., Macko, S.A., Anderson, I.C., Potgieter, A.L.F., Sowry, R. & Shugart, H.H. (2003) Nutrient cycling responses to fire frequency in the Kruger National Park (South Africa) as indicated by stable isotope analysis. Isotopes Environment and Health Studies 39: 141-158.
Cook, G.D. (1994) The fate of nutrients during fires in a tropical savanna. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 359-365.
Mills, A.J. & Fey, M.V. (2004) Frequent fires intensify soil crusting: physiochemical feedback in the pedoderm of long-term burn experiments in South Africa. Geoderma 121: 45-64.
Schimel, D. & Baker, D. (2002) The wildfire factor. Nature 420: 29-30.
Williams, R.J., Hutley, L.B., Cook, G.D., Russell-Smith, J., Edwards, A. & Chen, X.Y. (2004) Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of mesic savannas in the Northern Territory, Australia: approaches, uncertainties and potential impacts of fire. Functional Plant Biology 31: 415-422.
