Acknowledgements
We proudly acknowledge the Wadawurrung People as the Traditional Owners
of the land on which this study was conducted. This research was
generously funded by the Hermon Slade Foundation, while D.J.W. was
supported by a Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
T.S.D. was supported by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship from Deakin University and a Discovery Early Career
Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council (DE200100157). We
thank staff from Parks Victoria, the Department of Energy, Environment
and Climate Action, as well as Forest Fire Management Victoria for their
assistance and support in planning this research. We are grateful to Dr.
Harry Moore for his comments on earlier versions of this manuscript, and
we deeply thank the numerous volunteers who assisted in the field.