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78
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903
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Overview

Ross A. Bradstock is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and has a research focus in Environmental Science. Their work primarily addresses issues related to fire ecology, ecosystem dynamics, and environmental risk.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Research topics explored by Bradstock include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Bradstock has authored or coauthored numerous papers with colleagues such as Matthias M. Boer, Hamish Clarke, Michael Bedward, Owen Price, and Rachael H. Nolan. Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Fire
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Plant Cell & Environment

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019-20 season of mega-fires" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire" (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • "Limits to post-fire vegetation recovery under climate change" (2021, Plant Cell & Environment)
  • "Wildfires: Australia needs national monitoring agency" (2020, Nature)

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Learning to coexist with wildfire

    Max A. Moritz;Enric Batllori;Ross A. Bradstock;A. Malcolm Gill

  • Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

    Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley;Juli G. Pausas;Philip W. Rundel;William J. Bond

  • A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications

    Ross A Bradstock

  • Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Jose L. Gómez-Dans;Ross A. Bradstock

  • PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO FIRE IN CROWN-FIRE ECOSYSTEMS

    Juli G. Pausas;Ross A. Bradstock;David A. Keith;Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management

    Jon E. Keeley;William J. Bond;Ross A. Bradstock;Juli G. Pausas

  • Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent

    R. A. Bradstock;J. E. Williams;A. M. Gill

  • Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

    Matthias M. Boer;Víctor Resco de Dios;Ross A. Bradstock

  • 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

  • Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

    Neal J Enright;Joseph B Fontaine;David Mjs Bowman;Ross A Bradstock

  • Soil Temperatures During Experimental Bushfires in Relation to Fire Intensity: Consequences for Legume Germination and Fire Management in South-Eastern Australia

    R. A. Bradstock;T. D. Auld

  • Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019-20 season of mega-fires.

    Rachael H Nolan;Matthias M Boer;Luke Collins;Luke Collins;Victor Resco de Dios

  • Effects of weather, fuel and terrain on fire severity in topographically diverse landscapes of south-eastern Australia

    Ross A Bradstock;Kate Hammill;Luke Collins;O Price

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Fire persistence traits of plants along a productivity and disturbance gradient in mediterranean shrublands of south‐east Australia

    Juli G. Pausas;Ross A. Bradstock

  • Fire-related plant traits

    Jon E. Keeley;William J. Bond;Ross A. Bradstock;Juli G. Pausas

  • 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

  • The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

    Luke Collins;Ross A. Bradstock;Hamish Clarke;Michael F Clarke

  • Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

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

  • Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires.

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

  • Remote sensing of fire severity in the Blue Mountains: influence of vegetation type and inferring fire intensity

    Kate A. Hammill;Ross A. Bradstock

Frequent Co-Authors

Trent D. Penman
Trent D. Penman University of Melbourne
Owen Price
Owen Price University of Wollongong
Matthias M. Boer
Matthias M. Boer Western Sydney University
Geoffrey J. Cary
Geoffrey J. Cary Australian National University
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Deakin University
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania

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