Visiting Fellow
Fire ecology, fire weather, fire behaviour, fire at urban-rural interfaces and fire management.
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 4417
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Malcolm.Gill@anu.edu.au

After an undergraduate degree in agriculture Dr Gill completed MSc and PhD degrees in forest ecology at the same university, the University of Melbourne. Two years were then spent at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University in USA, studying north temperate tree growth, and a further two and a half years at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Miami, Florida studying tropical tree growth. Appointed in 1971 to the staff of CSIRO Plant Industry, he has spent over 35 years on matters relating to bushfires in the Australian landscape.

Professional Activities

My research interests have largely concerned the inter-related topics of fire ecology, fire weather, fire behaviour and fire management. Over the past few years my research has included matters relating to fires at the urban-rural interface - stimulated by the widespread and severe fires around Canberra in January 2003.

Academic Highlights

Selected Publications

Gill, A.M. 2005. Landscape Fires as Social Disasters: An Overview of 'the Bushfire Problem' Global Climate Change B. Environmental Hazards 6, 65-80.

Gill, A.M., Good, R., Kirkpatrick, J., Lennon, J., Mansergh, I. and Norris, R. 2004. Beyond the Bushfires 2003, Environmental Issues in the Australian Alps. Australian Alps Liaison Committee, 2004.

Gill, A.M., Allan, G. and Yates, C. 2003. Fire-Created Patchiness in Australian Savannas. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12, 323-331.

Bradstock,R.A., Williams, J.E. and Gill, A.M. (eds) 2002. Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press.

Mackey, B., Lindenmayer, D.B., Gill, A.M., McCarthy, M.A. and Lindesay, J. 2002. Wildlife, Fire and Future Climates. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Gill, A.M. and Bradstock, R.A. 2003. Fire regimes and biodiversity: a set of postulates. In: G. Cary, D.B. Lindenmeyer and S. Dovers (eds) Australia Burning: Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues. Pp. 15-25. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Bradstock, R.A. and Gill, A.M. 2001. Living with fire and biodiversity at the urban edge: in search of a sustainable solution to the human protection problem in southern Australia. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 2, 179-195.

Gill, A.M. 2001. A transdisciplinary view of fire occurrence and behaviour. In: G. Pearce and L. Lester (eds) Bushfire 2001. Proceedings of the Australasian Bushfire Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. Pp. 1-12. Rotorua, New Zealand.

Gill, A.M. 2001. Economically destructive fires and biodiversity conservation: an Australian perspective. Biological Conservation 15, 1558-1560.

McCarthy, M.A., Gill, A.M. and Bradstock, R.A. 2001. Theoretical fire interval distributions. Int. J. Wildland Fire 10, 73-77.

McCarthy, M.A., Possingham, H.P. and Gill, A.M. 2001. Using stochastic dynamic programming to determine optimal fire management of Banksia ornata. J.Appl. Ecol. 38, 585-592.