Growth Stage and La Trobe University To develop models for growth stage, habitat Habitat Analysis development and use at a landscape scale for University of Melbourne use in assessing fire management outcomes. (Schedule 12) Deakin University Arthur Rylah Institute Foothills fire and La Trobe University To develop remote sensing techniques to biota project: assess fire severity and patchiness on fuel University of Melbourne Managing Scale and hazard/habitat structure in foothill forests. This Deakin University Uncertainty in Fire project gathers the known monitoring data for Arthur Rylah Institute Management the past 40 years in the foothills forests and Planning (Bushfire develops understanding of the relationships and Natural Hazards with fire and landscape factors to predict Cooperative growth stage and ecological diversity, leading Research Centre to development of resilience metrics and Schedule 11) models to support decision making. Relationships University of Melbourne To refine the ecosystem resilience inputs into between flora, adaptive fire management and planning for fauna, habitat Victorian Tall Wet Forests. It will gather new, attributes and and collate existing (flora, fauna and structural) vegetation growth data, and test, model and further develop the stages in Victorian relationships between fauna, habitat attributes Tall Wet Forests and vegetation growth stages and resilience for this ecosystem. Resilience metric University of Melbourne As a component of the scientific review of the sensitivity analysis Bushfire Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation and growth stage approach this project will use an existing optimisation in extensive vegetation dataset to explore how fragmented sampling design and the choice of focal species landscapes influences the outcome of the growth stage optimisation process, and develop methods to better utilise resilience metrics in fragmented landscapes. Bushfire Climatology Monash University through To develop regional climatology's (risk and (Bushfire and the Bushfire and Natural planned burning) for use in risk based fire Natural Hazards Hazards Cooperative management planning. Cooperative Research Centre Research Centre Schedule 1) Drought Index- University of Melbourne To develop a spatial and dynamic Drought Victorian Spatial and Index and Drought Factor to improve bushfire Temporal Drought predictions and to determine the potential Index and Drought impact of planned burning. Factor (Extension of Phoenix RapidFire Project)
Growth Stage and Habitat Analysis (Schedule 12) La Trobe University University of Melbourne Deakin University Arthur Rylah Institute To develop models for growth stage, habitat development and use at a landscape scale for use in assessing fire management outcomes. Foothills fire and biota project: Managing Scale and Uncertainty in Fire Management Planning (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 11) La Trobe University University of Melbourne Deakin University Arthur Rylah Institute To develop remote sensing techniques to assess fire severity and patchiness on fuel hazard/habitat structure in foothill forests. This project gathers the known monitoring data for the past 40 years in the foothills forests and develops understanding of the relationships with fire and landscape factors to predict growth stage and ecological diversity, leading to development of resilience metrics and models to support decision making. Relationships between flora, fauna, habitat attributes and vegetation growth stages in Victorian Tall Wet Forests University of Melbourne To refine the ecosystem resilience inputs into adaptive fire management and planning for Victorian Tall Wet Forests. It will gather new, and collate existing (flora, fauna and structural) data, and test, model and further develop the relationships between fauna, habitat attributes and vegetation growth stages and resilience for this ecosystem. Resilience metric sensitivity analysis and growth stage optimisation in fragmented landscapes University of Melbourne As a component of the scientific review of the Bushfire Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation approach this project will use an existing extensive vegetation dataset to explore how sampling design and the choice of focal species influences the outcome of the growth stage optimisation process, and develop methods to better utilise resilience metrics in fragmented landscapes. Bushfire Climatology (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 1) Monash University through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre To develop regional climatology's (risk and planned burning) for use in risk based fire management planning. Drought Index- Victorian Spatial and Temporal Drought Index and Drought Factor (Extension of Phoenix RapidFire Project) University of Melbourne To develop a spatial and dynamic Drought Index and Drought Factor to improve bushfire predictions and to determine the potential impact of planned burning.
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