Conserving Australia's threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes

BA Hradsky - Wildlife Research, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Inappropriate fire regimes and predation by introduced species each pose a major threat to
Australia's native mammals. They also potentially interact, an issue that is likely to be …

Responses of invasive predators and native prey to a prescribed forest fire

BA Hradsky, C Mildwaters, EG Ritchie… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fire shapes biome distribution and community composition worldwide, and is extensively
used as a management tool in flammable landscapes. There is growing concern, however …

Resilience of reptiles to megafires

X Santos, J Belliure, JF Gonçalves… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme climate events, together with anthropogenic land‐use changes, have led to the rise
of megafires (ie, fires at the top of the frequency size distribution) in many world regions …

[HTML][HTML] An instructional workflow for using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to quantify vegetation structure for wildlife studies

S Penman, P Lentini, B Law, A York - Forest Ecology and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation structure is a crucial component of habitat suitability for wildlife, but methods
traditionally used to quantify it can be costly, subjective, or difficult to replicate. There have …

How do invasive predators and their native prey respond to prescribed fire?

DJ Watchorn, TS Doherty, BA Wilson… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fire shapes animal communities by altering resource availability and species interactions,
including between predators and prey. In Australia, there is particular concern that two …

Fire affects the occurrence of small mammals at distinct spatial scales in a neotropical savanna

ACL Camargo, ROL Barrio, NF de Camargo… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Fire is a major disturbance event that affects biomes worldwide, altering vegetation structure
and flora and fauna assemblages. Here, we investigated the effects of an extensive wildfire …

Pathways of change: Predicting the effects of fire on flammability

SC McColl-Gausden, TD Penman - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
Impacts of wildfire on humans are increasing as urban populations continue to expand into
fire prone landscapes. Effective fire risk management can only be achieved if we understand …

Fire regimes and environmental gradients shape vertebrate and plant distributions in temperate eucalypt forests

LT Kelly, A Haslem, GJ Holland, SWJ Leonard… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a global driver of ecosystem structure, function, and change. Problems common to fire
scientists and managers worldwide include a limited knowledge of how multiple taxonomic …

Bayesian networks elucidate interactions between fire and other drivers of terrestrial fauna distributions

BA Hradsky, TD Penman, D Ababei, A Hanea… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a major driver of community composition and habitat structure and is extensively used
as an ecological management tool in flammable landscapes. Interactions between fire and …

Fire, drought and flooding rains: The effect of climatic extremes on bird species' responses to time since fire

J Connell, MA Hall, DG Nimmo… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climatic extremes and fire affect ecosystems across the globe, yet our understanding of
how species are influenced by the interaction of these broadscale ecological drivers is …