Mortality events resulting from Australia's catastrophic fires threaten aquatic biota

Luiz G M Silva; Katherine E Doyle; Deanna Duffy; Paul Humphries; Ana Horta; Lee J Baumgartner

doi:10.1111/gcb.15282

Mortality events resulting from Australia's catastrophic fires threaten aquatic biota

Luiz G M Silva, Katherine E Doyle, Deanna Duffy, Paul Humphries, Ana Horta, Lee J Baumgartner

Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences

ETH Zurich

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Abstract

The size and intensity of bushfires during the 2019-2020 Australian season has been unprecedented (Nolan et al., 2020). The fires in south-eastern Australia were extraordinary in terms of the land area burnt (7.2 million hectares; Figure 1); four times that of the 2019 Brazilian Amazon and 1.8 times the 2017 United States' fires (Bladon, 2018). The frequency and intensity of fires are predicted to increase over coming years as the Australian climate becomes warmer and drier (Leigh et al., 2015).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5345-5350
Number of pages	6
Journal	Global Change Biology
Volume	26
Issue number	10
Early online date	17 Jul 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15282
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

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