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Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change Impacts 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Dataset Created: 2013-01-01
Dataset Published: 2016-06-30
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HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLWMSFire_regime_nichesWFSWFS linkHTTPLandscape Data Visualiser - Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change ImpactsHTTPro-crate-metadata.json
How to cite this collection:
Murphy, B., Boer, M., Bowman, D., Bradstock, R., Carter, J., Cary, G., Cochrane, M., Fensham, R., Krawchuk, M., Price, O., Russell-Smith, J., Williams, D. & Williamson, G. (2016). Pyrogeography: Integrating and Evaluating Existing Models of Australian Fire Regimes to Predict Climate Change Impacts. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25901/g4d7-3j27 
The ACEAS working group has developed a framework to evaluate the extent to which fire regimes are driven by climate and other environmental variables, and whether these fire and environment relationships concord with: (a) predictions of the group of conceptual models recently developed; and (b) predictions of process-based models. The dataset provides a distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia ordered according to decreasing annual net primary productivity. The dataset published is the distribution of major fire regimes niches throughout Australia. 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project. 
Purpose
Data not provided. 
Lineage
To broadly characterise Australia’s fire regimes, we reclassified a continental-scale vegetation map, defining classes based on typical fuel (e.g. litter, grass, shrubs) and fire types (e.g. surface, crown, and ground). Classes were intersected with a broad climate classification to derive a map of twenty broad fire regimes. Using expert elicitation and a literature search, we validated each fire regime and characterised typical and extreme fire intensities and return intervals. Satellite-derived active fire detections were used to determine seasonal patterns of fire activity within fire regimes. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Australia.
Temporal Coverage
From 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Ecology
GCMD Sciences
BIOSPHERE - FIRE ECOLOGY
BIOSPHERE - FIRE MODELS
Horizontal Resolution
Point Resolution
Parameters
fire regime
Temporal Resolution
one off
Topic
environment
Author
Murphy, Brett
Boer, Matthias
Bowman, David
Bradstock, Ross
Carter, John
Cary, Geoff
Cochrane, Mark
Fensham, Rod
Krawchuk, Meg
Price, Owen
Russell-Smith, Jeremy
Williams, Dick
Williamson, Grant
Contact Point
Murphy, Brett
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Murphy B. P., Bradstock R. A., Boer M. M., Carter J., Cary G. J., Cochrane M. A., Fensham R. J., Russell-Smith J., Williamson G. J., and Bowman D. M. J. S. (2013). Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system. Journal of Biogeography, 40(6): 1048-1058
Murphy B., Boer M., Bowman D., Bradstock R., Carter J., Cary G., Cochrane M., Fensham R., Krawchuk M., Price O., Russell-Smith J., Williams D. and Williamson G. (2013). Pyrogeography: integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire regimes to predict climate change impacts. Zenodo
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