Plant responses to a re-emergence of cultural burning in long-unburnt, threatened temperate woodlands

For tens of thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples have shaped the structure and function of ecosystems through cultural burning, which has many important cultural, ecological and societal values. In recent years, public interest in cultural burning has increased in response to more severe wildfires globally, and alongside greater calls from Indigenous Peoples for cultural revitalisation, as well as generations of Indigenous leadership in advancing community self-determination. This has sparked the development of many new agency-supported cultural burning programs worldwide. However, these programs are often limited by an absence of cross-cultural partnerships, and a lack of understanding of how contemporary ecosystems respond to burning. Here, we report the ecological outcomes of an Indigenous-led cultural burning program, delivered by a cross-cultural partnership between Aboriginal communities, ecologists, land managers, and emergency responders. Our ecological study was underpinned b..., , # Plant responses to a re-emergence of cultural burning in long-unburnt, threatened temperate woodlands

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.866t1g22g](10.5061/dryad.866t1g22g)

## Description of the data and file structure

Plant responses to a re-emergence of cultural burning in long-unburnt, threatened temperate woodlands

### Files and variables

#### File: Vegetation_data_dryad_15_12_25_submitted.xlsx

**1.Sheet Name:** README_Point_intercept1\
**Description:** Instructions to interpret **Point_intercept1** - data frame used for analysis of species count data

| Colname | Description |
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| ANUSiteName | Site Name/ TSR Block |
| Transectdistance | Location of plot (0m or 200m) on tr...,