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NESP RL Project 4.2 - Measuring the impact of changing fire and drought regimes in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area

Dates

Start Date
30-Apr-2024
End Date
30-Apr-2027

Titles

Title
NESP RL Project 4.2 - Measuring the impact of changing fire and drought regimes in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
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Primary
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Start Date
30-Apr-2024
End Date
30-Apr-2027
Language
English

Descriptions

Description

The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales is both an ecologically and culturally important area. The region is home to endemic and iconic species, such as the Wollemi Pine, and culturally important places for Traditional Owners.

Climate change has escalated the frequency and intensity of droughts and bushfires in the Blue Mountains, posing a threat to native species and ecosystems. Plans to conserve these species and ecological communities into the future often involve management actions to increase resilience to the threat from climate change. However, doing so requires understanding what factors make species or communities resilient to begin with.

Traditional Owners recognise ‘special places’ within the Blue Mountains: refugial areas that are naturally protected from the impacts of drought and fire. Studying these ‘refugia’ can help us understand the times of the year and the conditions under which plant communities are able to show resilience to the effects of climate change. That knowledge will help to inform management actions aimed at protecting existing refugia and bolstering landscape resilience.

The project will commence by conducting a stakeholder workshop and Indigenous consultation on Country to establish research priorities and study design. This will run concurrently with mapping, surveying and analysis of fire and drought history to identify and document refugia.

Key research areas

To identify, understand and conserve plant refugia within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, this project is:

  • consulting with Traditional Owners and stakeholders to identify research priorities
  • co-designing research with Indigenous knowledge of ‘special place’ refugia
  • mapping, surveying, and analysing refugia and ecosystem integrity
  • conducting desktop studies to identify temporal and spatial factors influencing refugia occurrence
  • conducting field surveys of identified refugia and establishing best practice management advice.

Pathway to impact

This project will support climate-ready management of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area by:

  • identifying refugia that may help protect plants from increasing fire and drought impacts
  • combining scientific data with Indigenous knowledge and perspectives
  • informing fire management and conservation planning for priority species and ecosystems
  • providing maps, tools and guidance to support adaptive management under climate change.
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English

Contributors

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Yes
Contact
Yes
Positions
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Principal or Chief Investigator
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Principal or Chief Investigator
 Principal investigator refers to the person(s) in charge of a research project
Start Date
30-Apr-2024
End Date
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Organisations

Name
Western Sydney University

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Lead Research Organisation
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Lead Research Organisation
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Start Date
2024-04-30
End Date
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RelatedObjects

Citation
Bendall, E. R., Wong, V., Bell, S. A. J., & Gallagher, R. V. (2026). Identification of distinctive new rainforest communities in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 7, 103–125.
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Bendall, E. (2026). Gridded SPEI for Australia 1980-2024 at 0.01-degree resolution derived from ANUClimate v2.0 [Dataset]. Zenodo.
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Bendall, E. (2026). SPEI Australia pipeline v1.0 (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo.
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