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Nature 415, 105 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415105b

Bushfires leave ecologists hot under the collar

Peter Pockley

The bushfires that have raged across New South Wales are fuelling arguments over the Australian government's approach to fire research.The fires have consumed around half a million hectares of bush and forest, prompting calls from ecologists for more work on measures such as controlled burn, which, they say, could help to limit the bushfire problem.