Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Michelle Ward; Robert M. Kooyman; David B. Lindenmayer; Chris Taylor; James E. M. Watson
- Source
- Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4:898-900
- Subject
- 0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
Scale (ratio)
business.industry
musculoskeletal, neural, and ocular physiology
Logging
Forest management
Environmental resource management
Climate change
macromolecular substances
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
humanities
Geography
nervous system
business
health care economics and organizations
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
- Language
- ISSN
- 2397-334X
The recent fires in southern Australia were unprecedented in scale and severity. Much commentary has rightly focused on the role of climate change in exacerbating the risk of fire. Here, we contend that policy makers must recognize that historical and contemporary logging of forests has had profound effects on these fires’ severity and frequency.