Learning to coexist with wildfire

MA Moritz, E Batllori, RA Bradstock, AM Gill, J Handmer… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

Responses of ant communities to disturbance: Five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of a globally dominant faunal group

AN Andersen - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological disturbance is fundamental to the dynamics of biological communities, yet a
conceptual framework for understanding the responses of faunal communities to …

Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta‐analysis

TS Doherty, S Balouch, K Bell, TJ Burns… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to determine how reptile populations respond to anthropogenic habitat
modification and determine whether species traits and environmental factors influence such …

Animal movements in fire‐prone landscapes

DG Nimmo, S Avitabile, SC Banks… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Movement is a trait of fundamental importance in ecosystems subject to frequent
disturbances, such as fire‐prone ecosystems. Despite this, the role of movement in …

Predator responses to fire: A global systematic review and meta‐analysis

WL Geary, TS Doherty, DG Nimmo… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of how disturbances such as fire shape habitat structure and
composition, and affect animal interactions, is fundamental to ecology and ecosystem …

Herbaceous diversity and biomass under different fire regimes in a seasonally dry forest ecosystem

MK Jhariya, L Singh - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
The present work deals with the impact of forest fire over herb community along with
changes in soil micronutrient status and C (carbon) storage. The present investigation was …

Cats, foxes and fire: Quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire

TS Doherty, DJ Watchorn, V Miritis, AJL Pestell… - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Predators and fire shape ecosystems across the globe and these two forces
can interact to impact prey populations. This issue is particularly pertinent in Australia where …

[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 …

Diversity patterns of wild bees and wasps in managed boreal forests: effects of spatial structure, local habitat and surrounding landscape

D Rubene, M Schroeder, T Ranius - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding patterns of species diversity at different spatial scales is important for
adapting management and conservation efforts. We have therefore studied wild bee and …

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 …