Are landscape changes linked to loss of traditional Indigenous Australian burning techniques?

Research investigates if the former open plains of western Tasmanian maintained by Aboriginal people became rainforest following the loss of traditional burning practices 

Paleo-ecological-related research highlights the social and ecological value of Indigenous fire management - providing  empirical data to challenge contemporary narratives of a passive occupation of the Australian landmass by Indigenous Australians Sediment cores from under the rainforest canopy, which will be dated by the radioactive isotopic composition at ANSTO