Under more severe and frequent fire activity, changing climate, and potentially stressful post-fire conditions, vegetation communities may show poor post-fire recovery, and may not return to the pre-fire state in terms of structure or community type. Frequent fires may induce vegetation state shifts, for example to more open structure, which has implications for both biodiversity, future fuels and fire risk through flammability feedbacks.

This project seeks to leverage ground-validated remote-sensing data to investigate indices of ecosystem resilience that could be used to identify, map and monitor communities that show evidence of or may be susceptible to structural and functional change in the future.

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