Description: Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia.
Brief description: A. Malcolm Gill retired from CSIRO after a career more than 30 years and is currently a Research Fellow at the ANU. He received an Order of Australia in 1999 for his service to the scientific research on fire. change.
Review Quotes: "This is a well-written, technical book, providing a very good "state of the art" account of fire ecology in Australia."
R.H. Marrs, Biological Conservation, Vol 158 (3) 2013
"This book is written by more than 40 knowledgeable Australian authors and is definitive and, as importantly, accessible by anyone with a modicum of scientific knowledge. A must for the bookshelf."
BES Bulletin, April 2013
"I regard this book as a valuable reference work for fire ecologists as well as students in fire ecology."
Rina Grant-Biggs, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, pp. 91-93, Vol 29(2), 2012
"Flammable Australia covers is all: fuel and habitat, fire frequency before and after European settlement and before and after global climate change; the effect on plants, animals, human communities, even fungi."
Nick Goldie, Summit Sun, March 29 2012
"The book is essential reading for the burgeoning audience of scientists interested in fire as an ecological process operating over diverse temporal and spatial scales"
William Bond, Austral Ecology, 2013