Animal mortality during fire

CJ Jolly, CR Dickman, TS Doherty… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's rapidly warming climate is propelling us towards an increasingly fire‐prone future.
Currently, knowledge of the extent and characteristics of animal mortality rates during fire …

Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia

JL Santos, BA Hradsky, DA Keith, KC Rowe… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire can promote biodiversity, but changing patterns of fire threaten species worldwide.
While scientific literature often describes ''inappropriate fire regimes''as a significant threat to …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

S Legge, L Rumpff, JCZ Woinarski… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim After environmental disasters, species with large population losses may need urgent
protection to prevent extinction and support recovery. Following the 2019–2020 Australian …

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

DA Driscoll, KJ Macdonald, RK Gibson, TS Doherty… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
With large wildfires becoming more frequent,, we must rapidly learn how megafires impact
biodiversity to prioritize mitigation and improve policy. A key challenge is to discover how …

Fuel reduction burning reduces wildfire severity during extreme fire events in south-eastern Australia

L Collins, R Trouvé, PJ Baker, B Cirulus… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme fire events have increased across south-eastern Australia owing to warmer and
drier conditions driven by anthropogenic climate change. Fuel reduction burning is widely …

Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene

GM Jones, JF Goldberg, TM Wilcox, LB Buckley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and
the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid …

End-Permian burnout: The role of Permian–Triassic wildfires in extinction, carbon cycling, and environmental change in eastern Gondwana

C Mays, S McLoughlin - Palaios, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Wildfire has been implicated as a potential driver of deforestation and continental
biodiversity loss during the end-Permian extinction event (EPE;∼ 252 Ma). However, it …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial refuges provide post-fire habitat for small vertebrates

DJ Watchorn, CR Dickman, A Greenville… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The interacting threats of invasive predators and fire are key conservation issues for many
species globally, yet few options are available to mitigate these threats. We tested how small …