{"id":2552,"date":"2022-06-30T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/?page_id=2552"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:02:08","slug":"when-fire-and-water-mix-do-carbon-dioxide-related-water-savings-drive-woody-plant-thickening-and-fire-dynamics-in-a-grassy-woodland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/when-fire-and-water-mix-do-carbon-dioxide-related-water-savings-drive-woody-plant-thickening-and-fire-dynamics-in-a-grassy-woodland\/","title":{"rendered":"When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2552\" class=\"elementor elementor-2552\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-065cadd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"065cadd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-737a8a0\" data-id=\"737a8a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30eb16b elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30eb16b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland?<\/strong><\/h3><p><strong>Funding period: <\/strong>2013-2016<\/p><p><strong>Funding agency: <\/strong>Australian Research Council Discovery<\/p><p><strong>Project leader, researchers and collaborators: <\/strong>Prof\u00a0David Ellsworth (Lead), Prof Matthias Boer, Prof Victor Resco de Dios and Prof Em Ross Bradstock<\/p><p><strong>Project summary: <\/strong>The study involves a pioneering field experiment to test the effects of elevated CO<sub>2<\/sub>, providing the first strong evidence on how water savings induced by increased CO<sub>2<\/sub> alter the abundance of grasses and shrubs (promote &#8220;woody thickening&#8221;, in other words) and affect woodlands flammability.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernsydney.edu.au\/hie\/topics\/when_fire_and_water_mix_influences_on_woody_thickening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-99567dd\" data-id=\"99567dd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a94b2d0 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a94b2d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2212\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small-930x620.jpg 930w, https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fire-water-mix-small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland? Funding period: 2013-2016 Funding agency: Australian Research Council Discovery Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Prof\u00a0David Ellsworth (Lead), Prof Matthias Boer, Prof Victor Resco de Dios and Prof Em Ross Bradstock Project summary: The study&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/when-fire-and-water-mix-do-carbon-dioxide-related-water-savings-drive-woody-plant-thickening-and-fire-dynamics-in-a-grassy-woodland\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2552\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushfire.hieresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}