New modelling on bushfires shows how they really burn through an area

Authors

Philip J. Zylstra, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

109149

Publication Details

Zylstra, P. (2016). New modelling on bushfires shows how they really burn through an area. The Conversation, 22 August 1-4.

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The Conversation

Abstract

Bushfires in Australia can have a devastating impact on an environment and destroy homes and lives, so any effort to prevent them is a welcome move.

But the way that we have traditionally understood bushfires and forest flammability in Australia is not up to the challenges of our changing climate. Thankfully, a new approach is making sense of the confusion by looking at the plants themselves.