Step 1 · Report §1 · Introduction & project background
Climate is escalating fire. Ecosystems are in decline.
Climate change is driving large increases in fire extent, frequency and severity across Victoria. Over half of the state's vegetation is already below reproductive capacity — burnt too often, or too recently, to recover before the next fire arrives.
So: which fuel-management strategies actually protect ecosystems under future fire?
PHOTO · LANDSCAPE · post-fire eucalyptus forest, East Gippsland · drop replacement image here
At a glance
What we already know going in
55%
of Victoria's vegetation is already below reproductive capacity
Source: report §1
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Future fire is projected to increase in extent, frequency and severity
Climate signal · all RCPs
9
candidate fuel-management strategies simulated across 5 study areas & 4 climate models
FROST + FAME pipeline