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NAILSMA media release: Lessons from north Australia's Indigenous fire management to go global

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http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33d928b7aeb17804ab4e0cba0&id=453622e932&e=afed86cf29
The Australian Government is working with the United Nations University (UNU) and the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) to share Australia’s experience of savanna fire management mitigation projects with developing countries. (Wednesday, 05/12/2012)

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TERN eNewsletter: Australian fire patterns determined by tropical monsoons

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http://www.tern.org.au/Newsletter-2012-Nov-FirePatternsAndMonsoons-pg24294.html
The pattern of bushfires in Australia is shaped by the rainfall that comes with the tropical summer monsoon, a research group has found. The researchers, supported by the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS), also discovered that there is a trade-off between the intensity of fires and their frequency, influenced by the type of vegetation that fuels the fires. (November, 2012)

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ABC Rural News: Simpson Desert so hot right now

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201211/s3636549.htm
Research indicates the Simpson Desert is about two degrees warmer and has experienced more flooding rains over the last 100 years. (Tuesday, 20/11/2012)

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Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?

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www.publish.csiro.au/nid/114/paper/WF09131.htm
A review of the effectiveness of prescribed burning in achieving its goals

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Grassfires: fuel, weather and fire behaviour

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Cheney, N.P., Sullivan, A.
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Fire and climate in Australia

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Lindesay, J.A.
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Australia burning : fire ecology, policy and management issues
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Importance of a changing climate for fire regimes in Australia

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Cary, G.J.
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Flammable Australia : the fire regimes and biodiversity of a continent
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The influence of fuel, weather and fire shape variables on fire-spread in grasslands

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Cheney, N.P., Gould, J.S., Catchpole, W.R.
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International Journal of Wildland Fire
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dx.doi.org/doi:10.1071/WF9930031

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Fire studies in Mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) communities of western New South Wales: Grass fuel dynamics and associated weather patterns

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Noble, J.C., Vines, R.G.
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Rangeland Journal
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www.publish.csiro.au/paper/RJ9930270

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Extreme fire weather in Australia and the impact of the El Nino- Southern Oscillation

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Williams, A.A., Karoly, D.J.
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Australian meteorological magazine
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www.bom.gov.au/amm/docs/1999/williams.pdf

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