Simon Connor

Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change

The global wildfire crisis1 is often attributed to climate change, a framing that overlooks crucial historical drivers. Biomes at the forefront of this crisis, such as the temperate eucalypt forests of Australia, have seen alarming increases in large, intense wildfires in recent...

From pollen to pixels: Towards spatially meaningful pollen-based vegetation reconstructions across southeastern Australia

Reconstruction of past vegetation underpins understanding of long-term ecosystem and societal change, helping to contextualise present-day patterns in biodiversity, ecosystem trajectories and effective landscape management practices against historical ecosystem states. This is pa...