List of works by Richard J. Williams

Allometry for estimating aboveground tree biomass in tropical and subtropical eucalypt woodlands: towards general predictive equations

scientific article published in 2005

An International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List ecosystems risk assessment for alpine snow patch herbfields, South-Eastern Australia

article

An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season

scientific article published on 06 March 2022

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Turning up the heat: the impacts of Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass) invasion on fire behaviour in northern Australian savannas

article

Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

article

Can Australian fire regimes be managed for carbon benefits?

scientific article published in January 2009

Carbon accounting, land management, science and policy uncertainty in Australian savanna landscapes: introduction and overview

article published in 2005

Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia

scientific article published on 06 August 2004

Climate change, fuel and fire behaviour in a eucalypt forest.

scientific article

Climatic warming strengthens a positive feedback between alpine shrubs and fire

scientific article

Contrasting architecture of key African and Australian savanna tree taxa drives intercontinental structural divergence

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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON A GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG LEAF AND ROOT TRAITS OF GRASSES

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Ecological mechanisms underpinning climate adaptation services

scientific article

Environmental and allometric drivers of tree growth rates in a north Australian savanna

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Erratum to: Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

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Estimating landscape‐scale vegetation carbon stocks using airborne multi‐frequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in the savannahs of north Australia

scientific article published in 2009

Experimental evidence that fire causes a tree recruitment bottleneck in an Australian tropical savanna

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Experimental warming and long-term vegetation dynamics in an alpine heathland

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Fire experiments in northern Australia: contributions to ecological understanding and biodiversity conservation in tropical savannas

scientific article published in 2003

Fire futures for a megadiverse continent

scientific article

Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

article by Don A. Driscoll et al published September 2010 in Biological Conservation

Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses

scholarly article by David MJS Bowman et al published March 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Fuels and landscape flammability in an Australian alpine environment

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes

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Gap Dynamics in Subalpine Heathland and Grassland Vegetation in South- Eastern Australia

scientific article published in 1992

Impacts of experimental warming and fire on phenology of subalpine open-heath species

scientific article published in 2008

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

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Large fires and their ecological consequences: introduction to the special issue

scientific article published on 12 December 2008

Large fires in Australian alpine landscapes: their part in the historical fire regime and their impacts on alpine biodiversity

scientific article published on 12 December 2008

Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

Modelling the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emissions from wildfires in fire-prone forests of Australia

article

Moving from autonomous to planned adaptation in the montane forests of southeastern Australia under changing fire regimes

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Phenological changes in six Australian subalpine plants in response to experimental warming and year-to-year variation

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Physically motivated empirical models for the spread and intensity of grass fires

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Plant invasions in treeless vegetation of the Australian Alps

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Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?

Prospects for improving savanna biophysical models by using multiple-constraints model-data assimilation methods

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Rapid response of habitat structure and above-ground carbon storage to altered fire regimes in tropical savanna

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Rapid response of habitat structure and aboveground carbon storage to altered fire regimes in tropical savanna

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents

scientific article

Seasonal Patterns in Soil Moisture, Vapour Pressure Deficit, Tree Canopy Cover and Pre-dawn Water Potential in a Northern Australian Savanna

scientific article published in 1997

Seasonal Variation in Water Relations of Trees of Differing Leaf Phenology in a Wet - Dry Tropical Savanna near Darwin, Northern Australia

scientific article published in 1997

Setting research priorities for effective management of a threatened ecosystem: Australian alpine and subalpine peatland

scientific article published in 2023

Spatio-temporal trends in tree cover of a tropical mesic savanna are driven by landscape disturbance

scientific article published in 2008

Spectral analysis of fire severity in north Australian tropical savannas

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Stocks and dynamics of carbon in trees across a rainfall gradient in a tropical savanna

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Subalpine plants show short-term positive growth responses to experimental warming and fire

scientific article published in 2009

Sustainable harvest rates of ironwood, Erythrophleum chlorostachys, in the Northern Territory, Australia

scientific article published in 2005

The estimation of carbon budgets of frequently burnt tree stands in savannas of northern Australia, using allometric analysis and isotopic discrimination

scientific article published in 2005

Towards consistency, rigour and compatibility of risk assessments for ecosystems and ecological communities

scientific article published in 2014

Vegetation Change and Ecological Processes in Alpine and Subalpine Sphagnum Bogs of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia

scientific article published in 2001

Vegetation Change and Ecological Processes in Alpine and Subalpine<i>Sphagnum</i>Bogs of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia

scientific article published in 2001

Viewpoint: Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of mesic savannas in the Northern Territory, Australia: approaches, uncertainties and potential impacts of fire

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Viewpoint: social and economic dimensions of involving savanna communities in carbon management systems

scientific article published in 2005

Wildfires, fuel treatment and risk mitigation in Australian eucalypt forests: insights from landscape-scale simulation.

scientific article

Windthrow in a tropical savanna in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia

scientific article published on 10 July 2009