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Fire-stick farming had the long term effect of turning Scrub into Grassland , increasing the population of nonspecific grass eating species like the Kangaroo and the ecological disturbance caused by fire-stick farming has been implicated in the extinction of the Australian Megafauna .

In wet and dry Sclerophyll forests, firestick farming opened the Canopy and allowed Germination of Understory plants necessary for increasing the Carrying Capacity of the local environment for Browsing marsupials.


REFERENCES

  • Jones, R. 1969. Fire-stick Farming. ''Australian Natural History'', 16:224

  • Miller, G. H. 2005. Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction. '' Science '', 309:287-290