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Grant J. Williamson

Grant J. Williamson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
9704
World Ranking
6639
National Ranking
243

Overview

Grant J. Williamson is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research mostly addresses topics related to fire effects on ecosystems, air quality and health impacts, and climate change. The work covers diverse subfields including global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist has contributed to various areas of study, with main focus topics including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Frequent publication venues for Grant J. Williamson include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Fire
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Preprints.org
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

They have worked extensively with several co-authors, such as:

  • David M. J. S. Bowman
  • Fay H. Johnston
  • Lynda D. Prior
  • Amanda J. Wheeler
  • Sharon L. Campbell

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Grant J. Williamson are:

  • Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth (2024), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate-driven declines in fuel moisture (2021), Global Change Biology
  • Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019-20 Australian megafires (2020), Nature Sustainability
  • Wildfires: Australia needs national monitoring agency (2020), Nature
  • What do you mean, 'megafire'? (2022), Global Ecology and Biogeography

Grant J. Williamson's work reflects a multidimensional approach to environmental science that incorporates the dynamics of wildfire phenomena, their ecological and health impacts, and interconnected climate variables. The research not only addresses the direct consequences of fire on ecosystems but also explores policy and monitoring considerations relevant to managing wildfire risk and environmental health.

Best Publications

  • Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

    W. Matt Jolly;Mark A. Cochrane;Patrick H. Freeborn;Zachary A. Holden

  • Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;John T. Abatzoglou;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

    R.M.B. Harris;R.M.B. Harris;L.J. Beaumont;T.R. Vance;C.R. Tozer;C.R. Tozer

  • Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth

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  • Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate-driven declines in fuel moisture.

    T. Michael Ellis;David M.J.S. Bowman;Piyush Jain;Mike D. Flannigan

  • Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

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

  • Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Brett P. Murphy;Dominic L. J. Neyland;Grant J. Williamson

  • Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM 2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires

    Fay H. Johnston;Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada;Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada;Geoffrey G. Morgan;Bin Jalaludin

  • Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Andrés Moreira-Muñoz;Crystal A. Kolden;Roberto O. Chávez

  • What do you mean, ‘megafire’?

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  • Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity

    Clay Trauernicht;Clay Trauernicht;Barry W. Brook;Brett P. Murphy;Grant J. Williamson

  • Giant eucalypts – globally unique fire‐adapted rain‐forest trees?

    D. Y. P. Tng;G. J. Williamson;G. J. Jordan;D. M. J. S. Bowman

  • What Do the Australian Black Summer Fires Signify for the Global Fire Crisis?

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  • A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the health effects of wildfire and prescribed fire smoke regimes

    G Williamson;David M. J. S Bowman;Owen F Price;S Henderson

  • Wildfires: Australia needs national monitoring agency

    David Bowman;Grant Williamson;Marta Yebra;Joshua Lizundia-Loiola

  • Climate–vegetation–fire interactions and feedbacks: trivial detail or major barrier to projecting the future of the Earth system?

    Rebecca M. B. Harris;Tomas A. Remenyi;Grant J. Williamson;Nathaniel L. Bindoff

  • The macroecology of airborne pollen in Australian and New Zealand urban areas.

    Simon G. Haberle;David M. J. S. Bowman;Rewi M. Newnham;Fay H. Johnston

  • The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management

    David M. J. S. Bowman;David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;Grant J. Williamson;Rebecca K. Gibson;Ross A. Bradstock

  • Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world

    Christopher N. Johnson;Lynda D. Prior;Sally Archibald;Helen M. Poulos

  • A warmer world will reduce tree growth in evergreen broadleaf forests: evidence from Australian temperate and subtropical eucalypt forests

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;R. J. Keenan;Lynda D. Prior

  • Southern Annular Mode drives multicentury wildfire activity in southern South America

    Andrés Holz;Juan Paritsis;Ignacio A. Mundo;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Pyrogeographic models, feedbacks and the future of global fire regimes

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Brett P. Murphy;Grant J. Williamson;Mark A. Cochrane

  • The relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the decline of obligate seeder forests

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;Lynda D. Prior;Brett P. Murphy

  • Fire weather risk differs across rain forest—savanna boundaries in the humid tropics of north‐eastern Australia

    Jeremy K. Little;Lynda D. Prior;Grant J. Williamson;Stephen E. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Fay H. Johnston
Fay H. Johnston University of Tasmania
Lynda D. Prior
Lynda D. Prior University of Tasmania
Brett P. Murphy
Brett P. Murphy Charles Darwin University
Michael J. Abramson
Michael J. Abramson Monash University
Sarah B. Henderson
Sarah B. Henderson University of British Columbia
Shyamali C. Dharmage
Shyamali C. Dharmage University of Melbourne
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Mark A. Cochrane
Mark A. Cochrane University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania

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