- Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
Sarah McColl-Gausden is a landscape ecologist who currently works as a research fellow at The University of Melbourne. She has a background in fire ecology, simulation modelling, and fire behaviour analysis. Sarah holds a PhD in fire science, specifically the prediction of future fire regimes under a changing climate and the implications for biodiversity.
Experience
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2022–presentResearch fellow, The University of Melbourne
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2022–2022Future fire risk analyst, The University of Melbourne
Education
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2022The University of Melbourne, PhD
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2017The University of Melbourne, Masters of Science (Ecosystem Science)
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2015The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Science
Publications
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2026Post‐fire vegetation shifts: Role of invasives and seedbanks in an Australian grassy woodland ecosystem, Journal of Ecology
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2025Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient, International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2025Fire in focus: Clarifying metrics and terminology for better ecological insight, Journal of Applied Ecology
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2025Demographic processes and fire regimes interact to influence plant population persistence under changing climates, Ecography
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2022The fuel–climate–fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change?, Global Change Biology
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2022Future fire regimes increase risks to obligate-seeder forests, Diversity and Distributions
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2021Climatic and edaphic gradients predict variation in wildland fuel hazard in south‐eastern Australia, Ecography
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2019Pathways of change: Predicting the effects of fire on flammability, Journal of Environmental Management
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2017Visual assessment of surface fuel loads does not align with destructively sampled surface fuels, Forests
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