Burning and Hunting in Australia’s Western Desert

摘要: Even though the central role of fire in terrestrial biodiversity Australia is widely acknowledged, we have a limited understanding factors that determine decisions Aborigines make maintaining landscape burning regimes (see review Bowman 1998, pp. 389-390). Discussions Aboriginal firing practices generally focused on three interrelated aspects: (1) possible changes indicated by paleoecological records coincident with arrival humans Australia, and subsequent vegetation demography distribution; (2) relationship between firing, primary extinction Pleistocene mega fauna, historic declines extinctions small-medium-sized marsupials; (3) as general land management strategy for increasing food supplies wildlife habitats. Our aim to address issue data immediate long-term benefits accruing Martu Western Desert Australia.