Burning for biodiversity or burning biodiversity? Prescribed burn vs. wildfire impacts on plants, lizards, and mammals

LA Pastro, CR Dickman, M Letnic - Ecological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a large‐scale phenomenon that affects ecosystems in many parts of the world.
Wildfires can have highly destructive effects on habitats and the biota they support, and land …

[HTML][HTML] Categorización del estado de conservación de de las lagartijas y anfisbenas de la República Argentina

CS Abdala, JL Acosta, JC Acosta… - Cuadernos de …, 2012 - SciELO Argentina
Luego de la elaboración de la primera lista roja de la herpetofauna de la República
Argentina, realizada en el año 2000, son numerosos los cambios y estudios efectuados en …

Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta‐analysis

RA Stanton Jr, WW Boone IV… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Across the planet, grass‐dominated biomes are experiencing shrub encroachment
driven by atmospheric CO2 enrichment and land‐use change. By altering resource structure …

Long-term, fire-induced changes in habitat structure and microclimate affect Cerrado lizard communities

BM Costa, DL Pantoja, HC Sousa… - Biodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
Fire transforms the structure of natural habitats and, consequently, modifies microclimates
affecting ectotherm organisms that are particularly susceptible to changes in the thermal …

Carbon storage, community structure and canopy cover: A comparison along a precipitation gradient

M del Rosario Iglesias, A Barchuk, MP Grilli - Forest ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Protected areas play a significant role in carbon storage in arid and semi-arid land. In the
central region of Argentina, there are three nature reserves located along a West to East …

Scorpion diversity in two different habitats in the Arid Chaco, Argentina

MF Nime, F Casanoves, CI Mattoni - Journal of insect conservation, 2014 - Springer
Scorpions are one of the most important taxa of predators in terms of density, biomass, and
diversity in various areas of the world. In this study, we compared population-and community …

Effects of fire disturbance on bird communities and species of mountain Serrano forest in central Argentina

S Albanesi, S Dardanelli, LM Bellis - Journal of Forest Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In central Argentina, Serrano forest has a long history of fire disturbance; however,
the impact of fire on avifauna remains unknown. We compared the avian–habitat …

Effects of wildfire, rainfall and region on desert lizard assemblages: the importance of multi-scale processes

LA Pastro, CR Dickman, M Letnic - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Vertebrate populations are influenced by environmental processes that operate at a range of
spatial and temporal scales. Wildfire is a disturbance that can affect vertebrate populations …

Direct and short-term effects of fire on lizard assemblages from a Neotropical savanna hotspot

BM Costa, DL Pantoja, MCM Vianna… - Journal of …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
As in other savanna biomes, burns are common in the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot,
profoundly affecting its entire biota. We review the direct and indirect effects of fire on lizards …

Recovery of western black-legged tick and vertebrate populations after a destructive wildfire in an intensively-studied woodland in northern California

EL Pascoe, CE Vaughn, MI Jones, RH Barrett… - Journal of Vector …, 2023 - BioOne
Despite increasing severity and frequency of wildfires, knowledge about how fire impacts the
ecology of tick-borne pathogens is limited. In 2018, the River Fire burned a forest in the far …