Fires on Aboriginal lands

Bird, D.W., Beliege Bird, R. & Parker, C.H. (2003) Women who hunt with fire: Aboriginal resource use and fire regimes in Australia’s Western Desert. Arid Lands Newsletter 54.

Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning: understanding and using fire in northern Australia. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Hill, R. & Baird, A. (2003) Kuku-Yalanji rainforest aboriginal people and carbohydrate resource management in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia. Human Ecology 31: 28-52.

Hill, R., Baird, A. & Buchanan, D. (1999) Aborigines and fire in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia: Ecosystem management across cultures. Society & Natural Resources 12: 205-223.

Russell-Smith, J., Lucas, D., Gapindi, M., Gunbunuka, B., Kaparigia, N., Namingum, G., Lucas, K., Giulani, P. & Chaloupka, G. (1997) Aboriginal resource utilisation and fire management practice in western Arnhem Land, monsoonal northern Australia: notes for pre-history, lessons for the future. Human Ecology 25: 159-195. [particularly pp. 173-176]

Vigilante, T., Bowman, D.M.J.S., Fisher, R., Russell-Smith, J. & Yates, C. (2004) Contemporary landscape burning patterns in the far North Kimberley region of north-west Australia: human influences and environmental determinants. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1317-1333.

Whitehead, P.J. Bowman, D.M.J.S., Preece, N., Fraser, F. & Cook, P. (2003) Customary use of fire by Indigenous people in northern Australia: its contemporary role in savanna management. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12: 415-425.

Yibarbuk, D. (2001) Traditional use of fire in central Arnhemland.

Burning for conservation and biodiversity management

Andersen, A.N. (1999) Fire management in northern Australia: beyond command and control. Australian Biologist 12: 63-70.

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.). Springer-Verlag, New York.

Bradstock, R.A. & Kenny, B.J. (2003) An application of plant functional types to fire management in a conservation reserve in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 345-354.

Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning: understanding and using fire in northern Australia. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Russell-Smith, J. (1995) Fire management. In: Kakadu: Natural and Cultural Heritage & Management (A.J. Press, D. Lea, A. Webb & A. Graham, eds.), pp. 216-237. Australian National University, Canberra.

Stanton, P. (1995) A tropical Queensland perspective. In: Country in Flames: Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity and fire in north Australia (D.B. Rose, ed.). Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 3, Biodiversity Unit, Department of the Environment, Canberra.

Burning on pastoral lands

Craig, A.B. (1999) Fire management of rangelands in the Kimberley low-rainfall zone: a review. Rangeland Journal 21: 39-70.

Craig, A.B. (1997) A review of information on the effects of fire in relation to the management of rangelands in the Kimberley high-rainfall zone. Tropical Grasslands 31: 167-187.

Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning: understanding and using fire in northern Australia. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Dyer, R., Café, L., Cobiac, M. & Cowley, R. (2003) Executive summary. In: Developing sustainable grazing management systems for the semi-arid tropics of Northern Territory. NTDBIRD, Darwin.

Fisher, R. (ed) (2003) Fire information for the VRD. CD-ROM. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Vigilante, T., Bowman, D.M.J.S., Fisher, R., Russell-Smith, J. & Yates, C. (2004) Contemporary landscape burning patterns in the far North Kimberley region of north-west Australia: human influences and environmental determinants. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1317-1333.

Other

Andersen, A.N. (2003) Burning Issues in Savanna Ecology & Management. In: Fire in Tropical Savannas (A.N. Andersen, G.D. Cook, R.J. Williams, eds.), p 195. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Bowman, D. (1999) Introduced grasses: triumph or Trojan horse? Savanna Links 10.

Charles Darwin University (undated). Impact of fire and its use for sustainable land and forest management in northern Australia and eastern Indonesia. Charles Darwin University, Darwin. Accessed July 2005.

Dyer, R., Jacklyn, P., Partridge, I., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2001) Savanna Burning: understanding and using fire in northern Australia. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Gambold, N. (2001) Participatory land assessment: integrating perceptions of country through mapping. In: Working on country: contemporary Indigenous management of Australia’s lands and coastal regions (R. Baker, J. Davies & E. Young, eds.), pp. 171-186. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Geosciences Australia (2005) Land Tenure. Geosciences Australia, Accessed July 2005.

Henry, J., Dunbar, T., Arnott, A., Scrimgeour, M., Murakami-Gold, L. & Chamberlain, A. (2004) Rethinking research methodologies. CRC Aboriginal & Tropical Health Publications, Darwin.

Howard, T. (2000) Introduced grasses: poor master, but useful servant. Savanna Links16.

Howard, T. (2002) Exotic grasses and fire. In: Savanna Burning: Understanding and Using Fire in Northern Australia (R. Dyer, P. Jacklyn, I. Partidge, J. Russell-Smith and R. J. Williams, eds.), p.25. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

Kakadu Board of Management and Parks Australia (1998) Kakadu National Park Plan of Management. Parks Australia North, Jabiru.

Kimberley Regional Fire Management Project website. Accessed July 2005.

MacAdam, R, Drinan, J., Inall, N. & McKenzie, B. (2004) Growing the capital of rural Australia: the task of capacity building. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (Australia), Publication No. 04/034. Accessed July 2005.

Myers, B., Allan, G., Bradstock, R., Dias, L., Duff, G., Jacklyn, P., Landsberg, J., Morrison, J., Russell-Smith, J. & Williams, R. (2004) Principles for information dissemination, technical transfer and capacity building. In: Fire Management in the Rangelands, pp. 69-75. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin.

North Australia Fire Information (NAFI) website. Tropical Savannas CRC, Natural Heritage Trust and WA Department of Land Information. Accessed July 2005.

NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (1999) Fire Management Plan Tarawi Nature Reserve. NSW NPWS, Sydney.

Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service (2004) Fire Management System for Bribie Island. QPWS, Brisbane.

Quirk, M. (1999) Cut and dried: the issue is how to manage disturbance. Savanna Links 10.

Rossiter, N.A., Douglas, M.M., Setterfield, S.A. & Hutley, L.B. (2003) Testing the grass-fire cycle: alien grass invasion in the tropical savannas of northern Australia. Diversity & Distributions 9: 169-176.

Tropical Savannas CRC (undated) Fire Knowledge Project. TS CRC, Darwin. Accessed July 2005.

Tropical Savannas CRC (2004) Fire season brings together landholders. Savanna Links Issue 30.

Tropical Savannas CRC (2004) Northern fire research links to Indonesia. Savanna Links Issue 29. Accessed July 2005.

Tropical Savannas CRC (2005) Pastoral Management and woody thickening. Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin. Accessed July 2005.

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