conservation value of Mallee and the vulnerability of foothills forest to fire. Managing This project will This project will interactions improve the provide information on between fire, conservation how best to invasive outcomes for coordinate the predators and threatened fauna by management of fire, invasive synthesising and feral predators and herbivores to (where appropriate) feral herbivores to maximise the collecting new maximise the persistence of information about the persistence of threatened interactions between threatened fauna, species fire, herbivores, feral taking into account predators and their interactions. The University threatened fauna of Melbourne Completion date: persistence at a and Arthur June 2017 landscape scale. Institute Knowledge for synthesised from Environmental existing studies, Research experts and new field experiments will be captured in predictive models that quantify the impacts of fire and invasive predators (and potentially invasive herbivore) management on the persistence of threatened fauna. 7: Building our understanding of bushfire, climate and risk - current projects Project Title Description Management outcome Climate and This project The ultimate aim fire regime: will on of this work is a feedbacks, existing model that can ecohydrology knowledge be used to and water and models to evaluate resources further develop management (IFER Core modelling options such as Project) capability that planned burning, enables the and inform water The University prediction of supply planning of Melbourne the combined and catchment impacts of fire management in and climate on the context of forest future hydrologic hydrology. outputs.
conservation value of Mallee and the vulnerability of foothills forest to fire. Managing interactions between fire, invasive predators and invasive herbivores to maximise the persistence of threatened species The University of Melbourne and Arthur Institute for Environmental Research This project will improve the conservation outcomes for threatened fauna by synthesising and (where appropriate) collecting new information about the interactions between fire, herbivores, feral predators and threatened fauna persistence at a landscape scale. Knowledge synthesised from existing studies, experts and new field experiments will be captured in predictive models that quantify the impacts of fire and invasive predators (and potentially invasive herbivore) management on the persistence of threatened fauna. This project will provide information on how best to coordinate the management of fire, feral predators and feral herbivores to maximise the persistence of threatened fauna, taking into account their interactions. Completion date: June 2017 7: Building our understanding of bushfire, climate and risk - current projects Project Title Description Management outcome Climate and fire regime: feedbacks, ecohydrology and water resources (IFER Core Project) The University of Melbourne This project will on existing knowledge and models to further develop modelling capability that enables the prediction of the combined impacts of fire and climate on forest hydrology. The ultimate aim of this work is a model that can be used to evaluate management options such as planned burning, and inform water supply planning and catchment management in the context of future hydrologic outputs.