@article {BF-2380,
	title = {Large fires, fire effects and the fire-regime concept},
	journal = {International Journal of Wildland Fire},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {688},
	abstract = {{\textquoteleft}Large{\textquoteright} fires may be declared so because of their absolute or relative area. Huge fires {\textendash} with areas of more than 106 ha (104 km2) have occurred across a wide spectrum of Australian environments and are known on other continents. Such large fires are rare whereas fires with much smaller areas are common. Large fires are initiated by single or multiple ignitions and become large because of some combination of: rapid rates of spread; long {\textquoteleft}life{\textquoteright}; merging, and failure of initial suppression operations. Fires as ecological {\textquoteleft}events{\textquoteright} occur within a {\textquoteleft}regime{\textquoteright} {\textendash} an historical series. Both events and regimes have effects that may be discerned in terms of water, land, air or organisms. What have been regarded as the components of {\textquoteleft}regimes{\textquoteright} have differed between observers, the main issue being whether or not spatial variables need to be included; {\textquoteleft}area{\textquoteright} involvement is briefly addressed. The current trend toward fire-regime control through fuel treatment, including management (prescribed) burning, and fire suppression may be expected to continue. These trends, among others, can be expected to change fire regimes. What is regarded as {\textquoteleft}large{\textquoteright} among fires may change as the planet becomes increasingly human-dominated.},
	doi = {10.1071/WF07145},
	author = {Gill, A. Malcolm and Allan, Grant E.}
}
@article {BF-2370,
	title = {Bushfires {\textquoteright}down under{\textquoteright}: patterns and implications of contemporary Australian landscape burning},
	journal = {International Journal of Wildland Fire},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007},
	pages = {361},
	abstract = {Australia is among the most fire-prone of continents. While national fire management policy is focused on irregular and comparatively smaller fires in densely settled southern Australia, this comprehensive assessment of continental-scale fire patterning (1997{\textendash}2005) derived from ~1 km2 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery shows that fire activity occurs predominantly in the savanna landscapes of monsoonal northern Australia. Statistical models that relate the distribution of large fires to a variety of biophysical variables show that, at the continental scale, rainfall seasonality substantially explains fire patterning. Modelling results, together with data concerning seasonal lightning incidence, implicate the importance of anthropogenic ignition sources, especially in the northern wet{\textendash}dry tropics and arid Australia, for a substantial component of recurrent fire extent. Contemporary patterns differ markedly from those under Aboriginal occupancy, are causing significant impacts on biodiversity, and, under current patterns of human population distribution, land use, national policy and climate change scenarios, are likely to prevail, if not intensify, for decades to come. Implications of greenhouse gas emissions from savanna burning, especially seasonal emissions of CO2, are poorly understood and contribute to important underestimation of the significance of savanna emissions both in Australian and probably in international greenhouse gas inventories. A significant challenge for Australia is to address annual fire extent in fire-prone Australian savannas.},
	doi = {10.1071/WF07018},
	author = {Jeremy Russell-Smith and Yates, Cameron P. and Whitehead, Peter J. and Smith, Richard and Craig, Ron and Allan, Grant E. and Thackway, Richard and Frakes, Ian and Cridland, Shane and Meyer, C.P. (Mick) and Gill, A. Malcolm}
}
