Shifting fire regimes cause continent-wide transformation of threatened species habitat

TS Doherty, KJ Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Human actions are causing widespread increases in fire size, frequency, and severity in
diverse ecosystems globally. This alteration of fire regimes is considered a threat to …

After the 'Black Summer'fires: Faunal responses to megafire depend on fire severity, proportional area burnt and vegetation type

V Miritis, CR Dickman, DG Nimmo… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and human activities have disrupted historical fire regimes, leading to
complex and far‐reaching impacts on global ecosystems. Despite extensive research in fire …

[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 …

Experimentally testing animal responses to prescribed fire size and severity

TS Doherty, DF Bohórquez Fandiño… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Deserts are often highly biodiverse and provide important habitats for many threatened
species. Fire is a dominant disturbance in deserts, and prescribed burning is increasingly …

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 …

From fire to recovery: temporal-shift of predator–prey interactions among mammals in Mediterranean ecosystems

O Tomassini, A Massolo - Mammalian Biology, 2024 - Springer
Fires are becoming increasingly frequent, intense, severe and prolonged worldwide, and
such situation is worsening. As a result, extreme fire conditions will increase, with …

Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer

AC Doty, RD Crawford, RV Blakey - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Climate change has caused several alterations in the frequency, intensity, and
severity of wildfires globally, particularly in the western United States. Wildfire can …

Managing multiple threats: Evaluating the efficacy of broad-scale introduced predator management in improving native mammal resilience to fire

V Menon, K Giljohann, J Pascoe, B Wintle… - Biological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Preventing further biodiversity loss requires understanding which processes threaten
biodiversity and the effectiveness of management actions in mitigating them. Threatening …

An attempt to evidence post-fire adaptation of red fox diet in a Mediterranean area

B Baldeschi, O Tomassini, G Bedini… - Ethology Ecology & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although fires are common in Mediterranean ecosystems, there are substantial knowledge
gaps regarding post-fire shifts in animal diets, especially for carnivores. Red fox Vulpes …

Artificial refuges did not increase small mammal abundance after fire

DJ Watchorn, TS Doherty, BA Wilson… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The interacting threats of invasive predators and altered fire regimes are key conservation
issues for many native species globally. Artificial refuges have been proposed as a potential …