Fire-stick farming is a term coined by Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in 1969 to describe the practice of Indigenous Australians where fire was used regularly to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Rhys Maengwyn Jones (26 February 1941 &ndash 19 September 2001 was a Welsh - Australian Archeologist. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank.
Fire-stick farming had the long-term effect of turning scrub into grassland, increasing the population of nonspecific grass eating species like the kangaroo. Scrubland is a Plant community characterized by scrub Vegetation. Grasslands (also called greenswards) are areas where the Vegetation is dominated by Grasses ( Poaceae) and other Herbaceous (non-woody A kangaroo is a Marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods meaning 'large foot' The ecological disturbance caused by fire-stick farming has been implicated in the extinction of the Australian megafauna. Australian megafauna is a term used to describe a number of comparatively large Animal Species in Australia, often defined as species with body
In wet and dry sclerophyll forests, firestick farming opened the canopy and allowed germination of understory plants necessary for increasing the carrying capacity of the local environment for browsing marsupials. Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem The canopy is one of the uppermost levels of a Forest, below the emergent layer, formed by the Tree crowns Canopy trees refers to the trees Germination is the process whereby growth emerges from a period of dormancy Understory (or understorey) is the term for the area of a Forest which grows in the shade of the emergent or forest canopy. The supportable Population of an Organism, given the food habitat, water and other necessities available within an environment is known as the environment's Herbivory is a form of Predation in which an Organism, known as a herbivore, consumes principally Autotrophs ref name=Campbell>Campbell Marsupials are an Infraclass of Mammals characterized by a distinctive pouch (called the marsupium) in which females carry their young through
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- Jones, R. Slash and burn consists of cutting and burning of Forests or Woodlands to create fields for Agriculture or Pasture for Livestock, or 1969. Fire-stick Farming. Australian Natural History, 16:224
- Miller, G. H. 2005. Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction. Science, 309:287-290
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