Fire in Australia: how was the biota prepared for human occupation?
Robert S. Hill A C and Gregory J. Jordan BA School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
B School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia.
C Correpsonding author. Email: bob.hill@adelaide.edu.au
Professor Bob Hill is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Director of the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide. He is also Head of Science at the South Australian Museum. His research interests focus on the evolution of the Australian vegetation over the last 60 million years, a period of time that saw most major aspects of the living vegetation come into existence. His particular research focus has been on the major Southern Hemisphere angiosperm genus Nothofagus and the evolution and distribution of the southern conifers. He has an ongoing interest in the interactions between soil nutrients, water availability and fire on the evolution of the living Australian vegetation. He has edited four books and has over 250 scientific publications. |
Associate Professor Greg Jordan is a research/teaching academic at the University of Tasmania, in the School of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. For the last 25 years he has been using evidence from fossils, geographic distributions, ecology, phylogeny and physiology to study plant evolution and biogeography, especially of the southern hemisphere. |
Australian Journal of Botany 64(8) 555-556 https://doi.org/10.1071/BTv64n8_ED1
Published: 19 December 2016
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