1/4 - Check our new paper in @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social
We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80โ280% and adapts to changing objectives.
31.10.2025 00:05 โ
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Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures
Wildfire has shaped many ecosystems across Earth, and humans have in turn shaped fire and its interactions within a range of socio-ecological systems.โฆ
New paper out! This is a big, interdisciplinary reflection on the types of challenges that are likely to come our way in the context of wildfires in the next 50 years. Was fun to write this one. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
31.07.2025 10:10 โ
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Have you ever been confused by the way the same fire term (e.g fire severity) is used to represent a whole range of metrics๐ฅ? Particularly if you are new to the field? In this piece we emphasise the need to careful explain and link fire metrics to relevant ecological mechanisms. Hope it's useful!
16.07.2025 22:55 โ
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YouTube video by The University of Melbourne
Pursuit - Using โvideogame ecologyโ to understand the climate crisis in our forests
Here is a link directly to the video game example (thanks to the unimelb media team ! ) youtu.be/NE7d5oDhnCQ?...
17.12.2024 23:30 โ
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'Videogame ecologyโ can help us understand the climate crisis in our forests
New University of Melbourne is using computer game models to โchallengeโ Australian plant species to survive future climate and fire scenarios
Final chapter of my PhD has just been published (only a few years late ๐). Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example ๐ณ๐ฅ. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...
17.12.2024 23:23 โ
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That's a wrap on the first two days of ESA2024 ๐ This might be our biggest conference in history, with over 1,300+ attendees and over 900+ presentations- but it's not over yet! Bring on more connection, sharing and celebration ๐ช
#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference
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Albanese intervenes to scupper Plibersekโs negotiations with the Greens
Tanya Plibersekโs negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the prime minister halted talks.
Albanese โhas personally intervened to scupper a dealโ with the Greens over an environmental reform promised last electionโฆ circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who had been negotiating โfor months and was close to striking a dealโ.
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Vertical image of eucalypt trees with a shrubby understory and 2 people wearing hard hats.
Green shrub with bipinnate leaves and rounded seed pods. Acacia terminalis.
Bright purple flower with 3 large petals covered in tiny hairs. Fringe Lily- Thysanotus tuberosus
Pretty nice to be back in the bush for a couple of weeks ๐ฟ
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire ๐ฅ or harvesting ๐ชต) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.
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