Research: Bushfire & Greenhouse Gas

The Age newspaper reports:

A study in Australia’s eucalypt forests has revealed that levels of carbon and greenhouse gases released in wildfire could be reduced by fuel reduction burning, or planned burns conducted prior to the bushfire season in high risk forests.

Funded by the Bushfire CRC, the work was led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and is published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire and the Forest Ecology and Management journal.

Links

• The Age – Bushfire greenhouse gas emissions – from mild to wild

• CSIRO – International Journal of Wildland Fire 23(6) 771-780 – Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission [ Authors – Liubov Volkova, C. P. (Mick) Meyer, Simon Murphy, Thomas Fairman, Fabienne Reisen and Christopher Weston]

• Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre