Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management

AN Andersen - Diversity and distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Fire is particularly frequent, complex and contentious in the vast tropical savannas of
northern Australia, where declines in many threatened species are associated with fire, and …

Effects of fire on pollinators and pollination

J Brown, A York, F Christie… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increased incidence of landscape fire and pollinator declines with co‐extinctions of
dependent plant species are both globally significant. Fire can alter species distributions, but …

[PDF][PDF] Heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management

SD Fuhlendorf, RWS Fynn… - Rangeland systems …, 2017 - library.oapen.org
Rangeland management, like most disciplines of natural resource management, has been
characterized by human efforts to reduce variability and increase predictability in natural …

Drivers, ecology, and management of fire in fynbos

T Kraaij, BW van Wilgen - Fynbos: Ecology, evolution, and …, 2014 - books.google.com
Fire is a fundamental driving force in fynbos dynamics, being both inevitable and necessary
in fynbos ecosystems (Kruger and Bigalke 1984). Fire has also played a key role in …

[HTML][HTML] Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the …

M Ensbey, S Legge, CJ Jolly, ST Garnett… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Catastrophic megafires can increase extinction risks; identifying species priorities for
management and policy support is critical for preparing and responding to future fires …

Climate‐induced resource bottlenecks exacerbate species vulnerability: a review

M Maron, CA McAlpine, JEM Watson… - Diversity and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Resource bottlenecks–periods of severe restriction in resource availability–triggered by
increased climate variability represent important and little‐understood mechanisms through …

In case of fire, escape or die: a trait-based approach for identifying animal species threatened by fire

EKL Batista, JEC Figueira, RRC Solar, CS de Azevedo… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent studies have argued that changes in fire regimes in the 21st century are posing a
major threat to global biodiversity. In this scenario, incorporating species' physiological …

Positive effects of fire on birds may appear only under narrow combinations of fire severity and time-since-fire

RL Hutto, DA Patterson - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
We conducted bird surveys in 10 of the first 11 years following a mixed-severity fire in a dry,
low-elevation mixed-conifer forest in western Montana, United States. By defining fire in …

Large fire initially reduces bird diversity in Poland's largest wetland biodiversity hotspot

M Walesiak, G Mikusiński, Z Borowski… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Freshwater wetlands are widely recognized as biodiversity hotspots for many organisms,
including birds. Climate change and the projected increased risk of wetland fires may pose a …

Pollination structures plant and nectar‐feeding bird communities in Cape fynbos, South Africa: Implications for the conservation of plant–bird mutualisms

S Geerts, A Coetzee, AG Rebelo… - Ecological Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the current global concerns about pollinators, relationships between species
interactions and diversity are pivotal. If pollinator communities depend strongly on the …