Restore the lost ecological functions of people

Aboriginal burning promotes fine-scale pyrodiversity and native predators in Australia's Western Desert

(2018) Rebecca Bliege Bird et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores

(2017) Justine A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

(2016) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Nature Communications

New Genetic and Linguistic Analyses Show Ancient Human Influence on Baobab Evolution and Distribution in Australia

(2015) Haripriya Rangan et al.   PLoS One

Managing fire regimes in north Australian savannas: applying Aboriginal approaches to contemporary global problems

(2013) Jeremy Russell-Smith et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

(2013) MICHAEL I. BIRD et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Humans as Long-Distance Dispersers of Rural Plant Communities

(2013) Alistair G. Auffret et al.   PLoS One

Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

(2013) R. B. Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Not an ancient relic: the endemic Livistona palms of arid central Australia could have been introduced by humans

(2012) T. Kondo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can seed dispersal by human activity play a useful role for the conservation of European grasslands?

(2011) Alistair G. Auffret   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

(2008) R. Bliege Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA