@article {bnh-7472, title = {Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia{\textquoteright}s 2019{\textendash}20 season of mega-fires: A broader perspective}, journal = {Global Change Biology}, volume = {26}, year = {2020}, month = {04/2020}, pages = {pp. 3756-3758}, abstract = {

Climates{\textemdash}especially seasonal and long-term droughts{\textemdash}and fuel loads combine to determine risks of wildfires across much of Australia. Here we illustrate how long-term accumulations of fuel combined with a serious drought to drive the behaviour and extent of recent fires in South-eastern Australia.

This article is a commentary on Nolan et al. 26,\ 1039{\textendash}1041. See also the response to this letter by Bradstock et al. 26,\ e8{\textendash}e9.

}, keywords = {Bushfire, climate, Fire behaviour}, doi = { https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15125}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15125}, author = {Adams, Mark A. and Majid Shadmanroodposhti and Mathias Neumann} }