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Overview

Geoffrey J. Cary is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant contribution in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

They have extensively studied fire effects on ecosystems, contributing to literature on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, rangeland and wildlife management, landslides and related hazards, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their recent papers include:

  • Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models (2020, Landscape Ecology)
  • Animals as Agents in Fire Regimes (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study (2020, Frontiers in Earth Science)
  • Unburnt habitat patches are critical for survival and in situ population recovery in a small mammal after fire (2021, Journal of Applied Ecology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geoffrey J. Cary include:

  • Marta Yebra
  • David B. Lindenmayer
  • Albert I. J. M. van Dijk
  • Claire N. Foster
  • Matthew G. Gale

Their published work often appears in venues such as the International Journal of Wildland Fire, Atmosphere, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Austral Ecology, and Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

    Don A. Driscoll;David B. Lindenmayer;Andrew F. Bennett;Michael Bode

  • How does ecological disturbance influence genetic diversity

    Sam C. Banks;Geoffrey J. Cary;Annabel L. Smith;Ian D. Davies

  • A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics

    Robert E Keane;Geoffrey J Cary;Ian D Davies;Michael D Flannigan

  • The worldwide “wildfire” problem

    A. Malcolm Gill;Scott L. Stephens;Geoffrey J. Cary

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

    T. D. Penman;T. D. Penman;F. J. Christie;F. J. Christie;A. N. Andersen;A. N. Andersen;R. A. Bradstock;R. A. Bradstock

  • Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

    Brett P. Murphy;Brett P. Murphy;Ross A. Bradstock;Matthias M. Boer;John Carter

  • Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire.

    Jason J. Sharples;Geoffrey J. Cary;Paul Fox-Hughes;Scott Mooney

  • Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather

    Geoffrey J. Cary;Robert E. Keane;Robert H. Gardner;Sandra Lavorel

  • Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires.

    Philip Gibbons;Linda van Bommel;A. Malcolm Gill;Geoffrey J. Cary

  • Effects of fire frequency on plant species composition of sandstone communities in the Sydney region: Inter‐fire interval and time‐since‐fire

    David A. Morrison;Geoffrey J. Cary;Stuart M. Pengelly;David G. Ross

  • A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing

    Marta Yebra;Marta Yebra;Xingwen Quan;David Riaño;David Riaño;Pablo Rozas Larraondo

  • A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes

    David B. McWethy;P. E. Higuera;C. Whitlock;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Interactions between climate change, fire regimes and biodiversity in Australia: A preliminary assessment

    R.J. Williams;R.A. Bradstock;G.J. Cary;N.J. Enright

  • Wildfires, fuel treatment and risk mitigation in Australian eucalypt forests: Insights from landscape-scale simulation

    Ross A. Bradstock;Geoffrey Cary;Ian Davies;David Lindenmayer

  • Forest fire management, climate change and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses

    David M. J. S Bowman;Brett P Murphy;Brett P Murphy;Mathias M Boer;Ross A Bradstock

  • Importance of a changing climate for fire regimes in Australia.

    Geoffrey Cary

  • Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape–fire–succession models

    Geoffrey J. Cary;Geoffrey J. Cary;Mike D. Flannigan;Robert E. Keane;Ross A. Bradstock

  • Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour

    Matthew G. Gale;Geoffrey J. Cary;Geoffrey J. Cary;Albert I.J.M. Van Dijk;Albert I.J.M. Van Dijk;Marta Yebra;Marta Yebra

  • Conservation conflicts over burning bush in south-eastern Australia

    David A. Morrison;Rodney T. Buckney;Belinda J. Bewick;Geoffrey J. Cary

  • Biophysical Mechanistic Modelling Quantifies the Effects of Plant Traits on Fire Severity: Species, Not Surface Fuel Loads, Determine Flame Dimensions in Eucalypt Forests.

    Philip Zylstra;Ross A. Bradstock;Michael Bedward;Trent D. Penman

  • Effects of fire frequency on plant species composition of sandstone communities in the Sydney region: Combinations of inter‐fire intervals

    Geoffrey J. Cary;David A. Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Robert E. Keane
Robert E. Keane US Forest Service
Sam C. Banks
Sam C. Banks Charles Darwin University
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Deakin University
Albert van Dijk
Albert van Dijk Australian National University
Stephen Dovers
Stephen Dovers Australian National University
Owen Price
Owen Price University of Wollongong
Matthias M. Boer
Matthias M. Boer Western Sydney University

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