Book chapter
Ex situ responses to the 2019-20 wildfires
Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020, pp.357-373
CSIRO Publishing
2023
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Abstract
Introduction: The 2019–20 Australian wildfires were unique in their scale and intensity. The long-term impact of the fires on species survival is still unknown; however, for many animal speciesover 80% of known habitat was affected by fire (see Chapter 11), and more than 800 or 3.5% of Australia’s vascular plant species had more than 50% of their populations or ranges burnt, in vegetation communities ranging from rainforests, eucalypt forests and woodlands to heathlands (Godfree et al. 2021). Effective conservation requires that a diversity of management actions is considered and tested using a cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional approach. As habitats continue to be impacted by a complexity of unabated threats, there is an increasing need for a ‘one plan approach’ (Byers et al. 2013) that integrates in situ and ex situ managementprocesses (Schwartz et al. 2017; IUCN 2020; UNEP 2021).
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- Title
- Ex situ responses to the 2019-20 wildfires
- Creators
- James R. Biggs - Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia (Australia, Mosman)Jenny Gray - Zoos VictoriaJudy West - Australian National Botanic GardensDamian Wrigley - Australian Seed Bank Partnership (Australia, Canberra)Catherine A. Offord - Australian Botanic Garden (Australia, Mount Annan)Heidi C. Zimmer - Centre for Australian National Biodiversity ResearchBerin D. E. Mackenzie - NSW Department of Planning, Industry and EnvironmentDan Duval - Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia (Australia, Adelaide)Jenny Guerin - Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia (Australia, Adelaide)Thai Te - Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia (Australia, Adelaide)Marissa L. Parrott - Zoos VictoriaKim A. Miller - Zoos VictoriaMichael S. McFadden - Taronga Conservation Society AustraliaMonique Van Sluys - Taronga Conservation Society Australia
- Contributors
- L Rumpff (Editor) - The University of MelbourneS M Legge (Editor) - The Australian National University (Australia, Canberra)S VanLeeuwen (Editor) - Curtin UniversityB A Wintle (Editor) - The University of MelbourneJCZ Woinarski (Editor) - Charles Darwin University
- Publication Details
- Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020, pp.357-373
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing; CLAYTON
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- Commonwealth governments, UK government
- Identifiers
- 991013246960402368
- Copyright
- © The Authors.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter