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SummaryQuantification of fire-prone vegetation is a challenge for land and fire managers who need explicit fuel data to support fire management decision-making. Fuel characteristics including the distribution of fuel elements by size class, live and dead components, compactness, and horizontal and vertical continuity are important determinants of fire behaviour and key to understanding suppression difficulty and assessing the risk of damage from bushfires. Furthermore, fuel characteristics are critical for evaluating ecological effects of fire including thermal impacts on vegetation and soil, and smoke emissions. Australian land and fire managers have recognised the need for a national-level fuel classification to provide an adequate and consistent method of characterising and categorising fuels. Here we introduce the concept and framework for a fuel classification scheme for Australian vegetation. This framework arises from extensive consultation with land managers and rural fire authorities, and a revie... |
