Mountain Ash

Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests

By: David Lindenmayer, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney

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Paperback | 30 March 2026

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200 Pages

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27.31 x 20.96 x 1.3

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Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years of high-quality, multi-faceted research coupled with 25 years of pre-fire insights.

Topics include: the unexpected effects of fires of varying severity on populations of large old trees and their implications for the dynamics of forest ecosystems; relationships between forest structure, condition and age and their impacts on fire severity; relationships between logging and fire severity; the unexpectedly low level of carbon stock losses from burned forests, including those burned at very high severity; impacts of fire at the site and landscape levels on arboreal marsupials; persistence of small mammals and birds on burned sites, including areas subject to high-severity fire, and its implications for understanding how species in this group exhibit post-fire recovery patterns.

With spectacular images of the post-fire environment, Mountain Ash will be an important reference for scientists and students with interests in biodiversity, forests and fire.

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"The Mountain Ash forests of the state of Victoria are the world's tallest flowering plants, where David Lindenmayer and others had worked for 25 years before the tragic and catastrophic fires of 2009. As all ecologists in fire prone areas have to learn, a disaster can be turned into an opportunity, and this lavishly illustrated book surveys the experience of 6 years of post-fire monitoring. A case study for those interested in forests and fire, and perhaps the monitoring of major disturbance in general."

British Ecological Society Bulletin, March 2016

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