CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. Abstract: Southeastern and southwestern Australia have quasiand classical-Mediterranean climates respectively. Vegetation varies widely from forests to woodlands to shrublands. Attitudes to landscape have been important in allocating land use in these areas with a general contrast between what is "practical"...

Abstract Human-assisted introduction of alien plants is causing ecosystem transformations worldwide and considered an important threat to biodiversity. We provide a European assessment habitat levels invasion in heathlands scrub identify successful trends across biogeographical regions. analysed geographically stratified data set 24,220 dwarf shrub vegetation plots sampled Europe. Among the 654...

Vegetation optical depth (VOD) has contributed to monitor vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks at different microwave frequencies. Nevertheless, there is a need determine which are the appropriate frequencies types. Also, as only few VOD-related studies use multifrequency approaches, it needed evaluate their applicability. Here, we analyze sensitivity of VOD three (L-, C-, X-bands) covers by a...

Previous research has shown that fires burn certain land cover types disproportionally to their abundance. We used quantile regression to study land cover proneness to fire as a function of fire size, under the hypothesis that they are inversely related, for all land cover types. Using five years of fire perimeters, we estimated conditional quantile functions for lower (avoidance) and upper (pr...