Bradstock, Ross A.

Overview

Ross leads a multi-disciplinary research team that is dedicated to the development of a quantitative understanding of risks posed by landscape fires to multiple values and the way such risks can be altered through cost-effective management and global change. Major funding sources for his team include the NSW Government, ARC, NSW Environmental Trusts, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, CSIRO, USGS and the European Union.

Ross is Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires and the new NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub, a collaborative venture between the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, University of Wollongong, University of Tasmania, Western Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2010	A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
2013	Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Learning to coexist with wildfire Published in Nature
2018	Aboveground carbon sequestration in dry temperate forests varies with climate not fire regime Published in Global Change Biology

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Comparing forest carbon stock losses between logging and wildfire in forests with contrasting responses to fire Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2020	Analysis of variation in distance, number, and distribution of spotting in southeast Australian wildfires Published In Fire
2020	Australia needs a national fire inquiry – these are the 3 key areas it should deliver in Published In The Conversation
2020	Australian forests, megafires and the risk of dwindling carbon stocks Published In Plant Cell and Environment
2020	Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2020	California is on fire. From across the Pacific, Australians watch on and buckle up Published In The Conversation
2020	Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019–20 season of mega‐fires Published In Global Change Biology
2020	Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2020	Establishing the adequacy of recorded acoustic surveys of forest bird assemblages Published In Avian Conservation and Ecology
2020	Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models Published In Landscape Ecology
2020	Linking forest flammability and plant vulnerability to drought Published In Forests
2020	Modelling bushfire fuel hazard using biophysical parameters Published In Forests
2020	The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study Published In Frontiers in Earth Science
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests
2019	Aboveground forest carbon shows different responses to fire frequency in harvested and unharvested forests Published In Ecological Applications
2019	Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual variability of suitable prescribed burning weather conditions in south-eastern Australia Published In Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2019	Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2019	Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze Published In The Conversation
2019	Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications Published In Scientific Data
2019	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2018	Aboveground carbon sequestration in dry temperate forests varies with climate not fire regime Published In Global Change Biology
2018	Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system Published In Environmental Research Letters
2018	Effects of competition and herbivory over woody seedling growth in a temperate woodland trump the effects of elevated CO2 Published In Oecologia
2018	Fire intensity drives post-fire temporal pattern of soil carbon accumulation in Australian fire-prone forests Published In Science of the Total Environment
2018	Soil carbon in Australian fire-prone forests determined by climate more than fire regimes Published In Science of the Total Environment
2018	The role of defensible space on the likelihood of house impact from wildfires in forested landscapes of south eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	The threatened status of the hollow dependent arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), can be explained by impacts from wildfire and selective logging Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2018	Understorey productivity in temperate grassy woodland responds to soil water availability but not to elevated [CO2] Published In Global Change Biology
2017	Changing Weather Extremes Call for Early Warning of Potential for Catastrophic Fire Published In Earth's Future
2017	Dry winter primes Sydney Basin for early start of bushfire season Published In The Conversation
2017	Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling Published In Landscape Ecology
2017	Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene Published In Restoration Ecology
2017	Retrofitting for wildfire resilience: what is the cost? Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2016	Advances in understanding the influence of fire on the ecology and evolution of plants: a tribute to Peter J. Clarke Published In Plant Ecology
2016	Biophysical mechanistic modelling quantifies the effects of plant traits on fire severity: species, not surface fuel loads, determine flame dimensions in eucalypt forests Published In PLoS One
2016	Determinants of growth of the flammable grass, Triodia scariosa: consequences for fuel dynamics under climate change in the Mediterranean region of South Eastern Australia Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere
2016	Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes Published In Environmental Research Letters
2016	How much does it cost residents to prepare their property for wildfire? Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2016	Large-scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2016	Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data Published In Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal
2016	Resolving future fire management conflicts using multicriteria decision making Published In Conservation Biology
2016	Responses of resilience traits to gradients of temperature, rainfall and fire frequency in fire-prone, Australian forests: potential consequences of climate change Published In Plant Ecology
2016	The drivers of wildfire enlargement do not exhibit scale thresholds in southeastern Australian forests Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2016	Wildfire survival plans in theory and practice Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science
2015	A generic, empirical-based model for predicting rate of fire spread in shrublands Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	A semi-mechanistic model for predicting the moisture content of fine litter Published In Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2015	A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems Published In Science of the Total Environment
2015	Adding fuel to the fire? Revegetation influences wildfire size and intensity Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Biogeography
2015	Climatic, vegetation and edaphic influences on the probability of fire across mediterranean woodlands of south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Biogeography
2015	Identifying the location of fire refuges in wet forest ecosystems Published In Ecological Applications
2015	Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2015	Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2015	Tree hollows and forest stand structure in Australian warm temperate Eucalyptus forests are adversely affected by logging more than wildfire Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2015	Trends in evapotranspiration and streamflow following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests Published In Journal of Hydrology
2015	Using MODIS data to analyse post-fire vegetation recovery in Australian eucalypt forests Published In Journal of Spatial Science
2014	Can precipitation influence landscape controls on wildfire severity? A case study within temperate eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2014	Changes in evapotranspiration following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests Published In Ecohydrology
2014	Changing dominance of key plant species across a Mediterranean climate region: implications for fuel types and future fire regimes Published In Plant Ecology
2014	Countervailing effects of urbanization and vegetation extent on fire frequency on the Wildland urban interface: disentangling fuel and ignition effects Published In Landscape and Urban Planning
2014	Divergent responses of fire to recent warming and drying across south-eastern Australia Published In Global Change Biology
2014	Environmental assessment of erosion following prescribed burning in the Mount Lofty Ranges, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2014	Impacts of frequent burning on live tree carbon biomass and demography in post-harvest regrowth forest Published In Forests
2014	Influence of fuels, weather and the built environment on the exposure of property to wildfire Published In PLoS One
2014	Learning to coexist with wildfire Published In Nature
2014	Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014) Published In Conservation Letters
2014	Modelling surface fine fuel dynamics across climate gradients in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia Published In Ecography: pattern and diversity in ecology
2014	Reducing wildfire risk to urban developments: simulation of cost-effective fuel treatment solutions in south eastern Australia Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2014	Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration Published In Tree Physiology: an international botanical journal
2014	Vegetation, terrain and fire history shape the impact of extreme weather on fire severity and ecosystem response Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2013	Brave new green world - Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity Published In Biological Conservation
2013	Bushfire hazard reduction: the sword or the shield? Published In The Conversation
2013	Contrasting fire responses to climate and management: insights from two Australian ecosystems Published In Global Change Biology
2013	Defining adequate means of residents to prepare property for protection from wildfire Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2013	Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2013	Demographic patterns of a widespread long-lived tree are associated with rainfall and disturbances along rainfall gradients in SE Australia Published In Ecology and Evolution
2013	Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2013	Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling Published In Ecological Modelling
2013	Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system Published In Journal of Biogeography
2013	Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2013	Forest-fire regimes affect thermoregulatory opportunities for terrestrial ectotherms Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published In PLoS One
2013	Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2013	Sydney fires caused by people and nature Published In The Conversation
2013	The spatial domain of wildfire risk and response in the wildland urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2012	A comparison of bushfire fuel hazard assessors and assessment methods in dry sclerophyll forest near Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	Can gullies preserve complex forest structure in frequently burnt landscapes? Published In Biological Conservation
2012	Changes in forest structure over 60 years: tree densities continue to increase in the Pilliga forests, New South Wales, Australia Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2012	Impact of fire regimes, logging and topography on hollows in fallen logs in eucalypt forest of south eastern Australia Published In Biological Conservation
2012	Interactions between dense Callitris regeneration and Eucalyptus and Callitris canopy trees in semiarid woodlands Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2012	Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires Published In PLoS One
2012	Modelling the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emissions from wildfires in fire-prone forests of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	Monitoring live fuel moisture content of heathland, shrubland and sclerophyll forest in south-eastern Australia using MODIS data Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2012	The impact of antecedent fire area on burned area in southern California coastal ecosystems Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2012	Using remotely-sensed fuel connectivity patterns as a tool for fire danger monitoring Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2012	Wildfires, fuel treatment and risk mitigation in Australian eucalypt forests: Insights from landscape-scale simulation Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2011	Assessing the sensitivity of MODIS to monitor drought in high biomass ecosystems Published In Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal
2011	Bayes Nets as a method for analysing the influence of management actions in fire planning Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Burn bush, reduce emissions: evaluating costs and benefits of prescribed burning Published In The Conversation
2011	Did historical tree removal promote woody plant encroachment in Australian woodlands? Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2011	Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits Published In Trends in Plant Science
2011	How do slow-growing, fire-sensitive conifers survive in flammable eucalypt woodlands? Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2011	Integrating science into management of ecosystems in the Greater Blue Mountains Published In Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2011	Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	TRY – a global database of plant traits Published In Global Change Biology
2011	Trial by fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research Published In Australian Geographer
2011	‘The worst fire season ever’ … until next year Published In The Conversation
2010	A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications Published In Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010	Effects of soil temperature regimes after fire on seed dormancy and germination in six Australian Fabaceae species Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2010	Effects of weather, fuel and terrain on fire severity in topographically diverse landscapes of south-eastern Australia Published In Landscape Ecology
2010	Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them Published In Biological Conservation
2010	Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset-protection versus biodiversity conservation Published In Conservation Letters
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2010	The initiation of fire spread in shrubland fuels recreated in the laboratory Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2009	Can Australian fire regimes be managed for carbon benefits? Published In New Phytologist
2009	Fire frequency influences composition and structure of the shrub layer in an Australian subcoastal temperate grassy woodland Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2009	Fuel dynamics in shrub dominated landscapes Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
2009	Prediction of the probability of large fires in the Sydney region of south-eastern Australia using components of fire weather. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2009	Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape-fire-succession models Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Influence of fire severity on the regeneration, recruitment and distribution of eucalypts in the Cotter River Catchment, Australian Capital Territory Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2008	Large fires and their ecological consequences: introduction to the special issue Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Modelling the dynamics of white cypress pine Callitris glaucophylla woodlands in inland south-eastern Australia Published In Ecological Modelling
2008	Spatial patterns of fire behaviour in relation to weather, terrain and vegetation Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
2008	Spatial scale invariance of southern Australian forest fires mirrors the scaling behaviour of fire-driving weather events Published In Landscape Ecology
2008	The relative importance of fine scale fuel mosaics on reducing fire risk in south west Tasmania, Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2007	Fire persistence traits of plants along a productivity and disturbance gradient in mediterranean shrublands of south-east Australia Published In Global Ecology and Biogeography

Book

Year	Title
2012	Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management Publisher New York

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic
2012	Future fire regimes of Australian ecosystems: new perspectives on enduring questions of management Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic
2012	Global change and fire regimes in Australia Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2016	Characterisation of water sprays using high-speed videography Published In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
2014	A semi-mechanistic model of dead fine fuel moisture for Temperate and Mediterranean ecosystems Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	Modelling the response of surface fuel to climate change across south-eastern Australia: consequences for future fire regimes Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	Synergistic effects of drought and fire on the carbon carrying capacity of tropical forests and woodlands Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2011	The dirt on assessing post-fire erosion in the Mount Lofty Ranges: comparing methods Published In Proceedings of Bushfire CRC & AFAC 2011 Conference Science Day

Other Publications

Year	Title
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

Editor Of

Book
- Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World. Collingwood, Vic. 2012

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020 - 2023	Shaping a sunburnt country: fire, climate and the Australian landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2017	Modelling fire risk to fauna Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2014 - 2015	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2013 - 2014	Fire futures in south eastern Australia: Integrating trajectories of change in climate, ecosystems and fire regimes Awarded by: CSIRO Funding Scheme: National Research Flagship Collaboration Fund
2013	When fire and water mix: do CO2 related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland? Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2011	Climate change impacts on bushfire fuels Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2010	FUME - Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world Awarded by: European Union Funding Scheme: Grant
2010	Modelling Fire and Urban risk in Southern California Awarded by: U.S. Geological Survey Funding Scheme: grant
2010	Plant responses to fire across the semi-arid Mallee rainfall gradient Awarded by: SA Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation Funding Scheme: Research Grant
2007	Managing ecosystems change in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2007	Spatial-dynamic models to identify optimal fire mosaics, based on demography, dispersal and fire responses of plants, birds and reptiles Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Productivity and Effectiveness of Suppression Resources and Tactics on Large Fires	Simpson, Heather
Master of Philosophy	Diversity Relationships Between Standing Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Semi-Arid Dune Mallee Vegetation	Harris, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Empirical analysis of wildfire spread and spotting in southern Australia	Storey, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Downed, Dead and Decayed - Coarse woody debris creation and loss dynamics in response to fire and climate	Stares, Mitchell
Doctor of Philosophy	Resprouting into the future: implications for Eucalyptus forests in a changing climate	Bendall, Eli
Doctor of Philosophy	Avian responses to fire regimes in montane dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia	Franklin, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Can logging alter landscape function in fire prone forests?	Wilson, Nicholas
Doctor of Philosophy		Lu, Shawn
Doctor of Philosophy	Effects of climate change on resilience of fire prone plant communities	Simpson-Southward, Harriet

Top Publications

Year	Title
2010	A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
2013	Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Learning to coexist with wildfire Published in Nature
2018	Aboveground carbon sequestration in dry temperate forests varies with climate not fire regime Published in Global Change Biology

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Comparing forest carbon stock losses between logging and wildfire in forests with contrasting responses to fire Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2020	Analysis of variation in distance, number, and distribution of spotting in southeast Australian wildfires Published In Fire
2020	Australia needs a national fire inquiry – these are the 3 key areas it should deliver in Published In The Conversation
2020	Australian forests, megafires and the risk of dwindling carbon stocks Published In Plant Cell and Environment
2020	Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2020	California is on fire. From across the Pacific, Australians watch on and buckle up Published In The Conversation
2020	Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019–20 season of mega‐fires Published In Global Change Biology
2020	Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2020	Establishing the adequacy of recorded acoustic surveys of forest bird assemblages Published In Avian Conservation and Ecology
2020	Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models Published In Landscape Ecology
2020	Linking forest flammability and plant vulnerability to drought Published In Forests
2020	Modelling bushfire fuel hazard using biophysical parameters Published In Forests
2020	The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study Published In Frontiers in Earth Science
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests
2019	Aboveground forest carbon shows different responses to fire frequency in harvested and unharvested forests Published In Ecological Applications
2019	Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual variability of suitable prescribed burning weather conditions in south-eastern Australia Published In Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2019	Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2019	Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze Published In The Conversation
2019	Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications Published In Scientific Data
2019	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2018	Aboveground carbon sequestration in dry temperate forests varies with climate not fire regime Published In Global Change Biology
2018	Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system Published In Environmental Research Letters
2018	Effects of competition and herbivory over woody seedling growth in a temperate woodland trump the effects of elevated CO2 Published In Oecologia
2018	Fire intensity drives post-fire temporal pattern of soil carbon accumulation in Australian fire-prone forests Published In Science of the Total Environment
2018	Soil carbon in Australian fire-prone forests determined by climate more than fire regimes Published In Science of the Total Environment
2018	The role of defensible space on the likelihood of house impact from wildfires in forested landscapes of south eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	The threatened status of the hollow dependent arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), can be explained by impacts from wildfire and selective logging Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2018	Understorey productivity in temperate grassy woodland responds to soil water availability but not to elevated [CO2] Published In Global Change Biology
2017	Changing Weather Extremes Call for Early Warning of Potential for Catastrophic Fire Published In Earth's Future
2017	Dry winter primes Sydney Basin for early start of bushfire season Published In The Conversation
2017	Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling Published In Landscape Ecology
2017	Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene Published In Restoration Ecology
2017	Retrofitting for wildfire resilience: what is the cost? Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2016	Advances in understanding the influence of fire on the ecology and evolution of plants: a tribute to Peter J. Clarke Published In Plant Ecology
2016	Biophysical mechanistic modelling quantifies the effects of plant traits on fire severity: species, not surface fuel loads, determine flame dimensions in eucalypt forests Published In PLoS One
2016	Determinants of growth of the flammable grass, Triodia scariosa: consequences for fuel dynamics under climate change in the Mediterranean region of South Eastern Australia Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere
2016	Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes Published In Environmental Research Letters
2016	How much does it cost residents to prepare their property for wildfire? Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2016	Large-scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2016	Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data Published In Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal
2016	Resolving future fire management conflicts using multicriteria decision making Published In Conservation Biology
2016	Responses of resilience traits to gradients of temperature, rainfall and fire frequency in fire-prone, Australian forests: potential consequences of climate change Published In Plant Ecology
2016	The drivers of wildfire enlargement do not exhibit scale thresholds in southeastern Australian forests Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2016	Wildfire survival plans in theory and practice Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science
2015	A generic, empirical-based model for predicting rate of fire spread in shrublands Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	A semi-mechanistic model for predicting the moisture content of fine litter Published In Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2015	A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems Published In Science of the Total Environment
2015	Adding fuel to the fire? Revegetation influences wildfire size and intensity Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Biogeography
2015	Climatic, vegetation and edaphic influences on the probability of fire across mediterranean woodlands of south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Biogeography
2015	Identifying the location of fire refuges in wet forest ecosystems Published In Ecological Applications
2015	Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2015	Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2015	Tree hollows and forest stand structure in Australian warm temperate Eucalyptus forests are adversely affected by logging more than wildfire Published In Forest Ecology and Management
2015	Trends in evapotranspiration and streamflow following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests Published In Journal of Hydrology
2015	Using MODIS data to analyse post-fire vegetation recovery in Australian eucalypt forests Published In Journal of Spatial Science
2014	Can precipitation influence landscape controls on wildfire severity? A case study within temperate eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2014	Changes in evapotranspiration following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests Published In Ecohydrology
2014	Changing dominance of key plant species across a Mediterranean climate region: implications for fuel types and future fire regimes Published In Plant Ecology
2014	Countervailing effects of urbanization and vegetation extent on fire frequency on the Wildland urban interface: disentangling fuel and ignition effects Published In Landscape and Urban Planning
2014	Divergent responses of fire to recent warming and drying across south-eastern Australia Published In Global Change Biology
2014	Environmental assessment of erosion following prescribed burning in the Mount Lofty Ranges, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2014	Impacts of frequent burning on live tree carbon biomass and demography in post-harvest regrowth forest Published In Forests
2014	Influence of fuels, weather and the built environment on the exposure of property to wildfire Published In PLoS One
2014	Learning to coexist with wildfire Published In Nature
2014	Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014) Published In Conservation Letters
2014	Modelling surface fine fuel dynamics across climate gradients in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia Published In Ecography: pattern and diversity in ecology
2014	Reducing wildfire risk to urban developments: simulation of cost-effective fuel treatment solutions in south eastern Australia Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2014	Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration Published In Tree Physiology: an international botanical journal
2014	Vegetation, terrain and fire history shape the impact of extreme weather on fire severity and ecosystem response Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2013	Brave new green world - Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity Published In Biological Conservation
2013	Bushfire hazard reduction: the sword or the shield? Published In The Conversation
2013	Contrasting fire responses to climate and management: insights from two Australian ecosystems Published In Global Change Biology
2013	Defining adequate means of residents to prepare property for protection from wildfire Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2013	Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2013	Demographic patterns of a widespread long-lived tree are associated with rainfall and disturbances along rainfall gradients in SE Australia Published In Ecology and Evolution
2013	Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2013	Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling Published In Ecological Modelling
2013	Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system Published In Journal of Biogeography
2013	Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2013	Forest-fire regimes affect thermoregulatory opportunities for terrestrial ectotherms Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published In PLoS One
2013	Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2013	Sydney fires caused by people and nature Published In The Conversation
2013	The spatial domain of wildfire risk and response in the wildland urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2012	A comparison of bushfire fuel hazard assessors and assessment methods in dry sclerophyll forest near Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	Can gullies preserve complex forest structure in frequently burnt landscapes? Published In Biological Conservation
2012	Changes in forest structure over 60 years: tree densities continue to increase in the Pilliga forests, New South Wales, Australia Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2012	Impact of fire regimes, logging and topography on hollows in fallen logs in eucalypt forest of south eastern Australia Published In Biological Conservation
2012	Interactions between dense Callitris regeneration and Eucalyptus and Callitris canopy trees in semiarid woodlands Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2012	Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires Published In PLoS One
2012	Modelling the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emissions from wildfires in fire-prone forests of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	Monitoring live fuel moisture content of heathland, shrubland and sclerophyll forest in south-eastern Australia using MODIS data Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2012	The impact of antecedent fire area on burned area in southern California coastal ecosystems Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2012	Using remotely-sensed fuel connectivity patterns as a tool for fire danger monitoring Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2012	Wildfires, fuel treatment and risk mitigation in Australian eucalypt forests: Insights from landscape-scale simulation Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2011	Assessing the sensitivity of MODIS to monitor drought in high biomass ecosystems Published In Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal
2011	Bayes Nets as a method for analysing the influence of management actions in fire planning Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Burn bush, reduce emissions: evaluating costs and benefits of prescribed burning Published In The Conversation
2011	Did historical tree removal promote woody plant encroachment in Australian woodlands? Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2011	Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits Published In Trends in Plant Science
2011	How do slow-growing, fire-sensitive conifers survive in flammable eucalypt woodlands? Published In Journal of Vegetation Science
2011	Integrating science into management of ecosystems in the Greater Blue Mountains Published In Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2011	Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	TRY – a global database of plant traits Published In Global Change Biology
2011	Trial by fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research Published In Australian Geographer
2011	‘The worst fire season ever’ … until next year Published In The Conversation
2010	A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications Published In Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010	Effects of soil temperature regimes after fire on seed dormancy and germination in six Australian Fabaceae species Published In Australian Journal of Botany
2010	Effects of weather, fuel and terrain on fire severity in topographically diverse landscapes of south-eastern Australia Published In Landscape Ecology
2010	Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them Published In Biological Conservation
2010	Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset-protection versus biodiversity conservation Published In Conservation Letters
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2010	The initiation of fire spread in shrubland fuels recreated in the laboratory Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2009	Can Australian fire regimes be managed for carbon benefits? Published In New Phytologist
2009	Fire frequency influences composition and structure of the shrub layer in an Australian subcoastal temperate grassy woodland Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2009	Fuel dynamics in shrub dominated landscapes Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
2009	Prediction of the probability of large fires in the Sydney region of south-eastern Australia using components of fire weather. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2009	Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape-fire-succession models Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Influence of fire severity on the regeneration, recruitment and distribution of eucalypts in the Cotter River Catchment, Australian Capital Territory Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere
2008	Large fires and their ecological consequences: introduction to the special issue Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2008	Modelling the dynamics of white cypress pine Callitris glaucophylla woodlands in inland south-eastern Australia Published In Ecological Modelling
2008	Spatial patterns of fire behaviour in relation to weather, terrain and vegetation Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
2008	Spatial scale invariance of southern Australian forest fires mirrors the scaling behaviour of fire-driving weather events Published In Landscape Ecology
2008	The relative importance of fine scale fuel mosaics on reducing fire risk in south west Tasmania, Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2007	Fire persistence traits of plants along a productivity and disturbance gradient in mediterranean shrublands of south-east Australia Published In Global Ecology and Biogeography

Book

Year	Title
2012	Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management Publisher New York

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic
2012	Future fire regimes of Australian ecosystems: new perspectives on enduring questions of management Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic
2012	Global change and fire regimes in Australia Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2016	Characterisation of water sprays using high-speed videography Published In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
2014	A semi-mechanistic model of dead fine fuel moisture for Temperate and Mediterranean ecosystems Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	Modelling the response of surface fuel to climate change across south-eastern Australia: consequences for future fire regimes Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	Synergistic effects of drought and fire on the carbon carrying capacity of tropical forests and woodlands Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2011	The dirt on assessing post-fire erosion in the Mount Lofty Ranges: comparing methods Published In Proceedings of Bushfire CRC & AFAC 2011 Conference Science Day

Other Publications

Year	Title
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

Editor Of

Book
- Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World. Collingwood, Vic. 2012

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020 - 2023	Shaping a sunburnt country: fire, climate and the Australian landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2017	Modelling fire risk to fauna Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2014 - 2015	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2013 - 2014	Fire futures in south eastern Australia: Integrating trajectories of change in climate, ecosystems and fire regimes Awarded by: CSIRO Funding Scheme: National Research Flagship Collaboration Fund
2013	When fire and water mix: do CO2 related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland? Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2011	Climate change impacts on bushfire fuels Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2010	FUME - Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world Awarded by: European Union Funding Scheme: Grant
2010	Modelling Fire and Urban risk in Southern California Awarded by: U.S. Geological Survey Funding Scheme: grant
2010	Plant responses to fire across the semi-arid Mallee rainfall gradient Awarded by: SA Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation Funding Scheme: Research Grant
2007	Managing ecosystems change in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2007	Spatial-dynamic models to identify optimal fire mosaics, based on demography, dispersal and fire responses of plants, birds and reptiles Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Productivity and Effectiveness of Suppression Resources and Tactics on Large Fires	Simpson, Heather
Master of Philosophy	Diversity Relationships Between Standing Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Semi-Arid Dune Mallee Vegetation	Harris, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Empirical analysis of wildfire spread and spotting in southern Australia	Storey, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Downed, Dead and Decayed - Coarse woody debris creation and loss dynamics in response to fire and climate	Stares, Mitchell
Doctor of Philosophy	Resprouting into the future: implications for Eucalyptus forests in a changing climate	Bendall, Eli
Doctor of Philosophy	Avian responses to fire regimes in montane dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia	Franklin, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Can logging alter landscape function in fire prone forests?	Wilson, Nicholas
Doctor of Philosophy		Lu, Shawn
Doctor of Philosophy	Effects of climate change on resilience of fire prone plant communities	Simpson-Southward, Harriet

Bradstock, Ross A. Senior Professor

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