In the wake of the country’s worst forest fires in recorded history, University of Queensland researchers have been part of an international collaboration, investigating Australia’s historical and contemporary land-use.
UQ Professor and Wildlife Conservation Society Director James Watson said logging regimes have made many forests more fire prone for a host of reasons.
“Logging causes a rise in fuel loads, increases potential drying of wet forests and causes a decrease in forest height,” Professor Watson said.
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