Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be
predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter …

Environmental disturbance underpins the dynamics and diversity of many of the ecosystems
of the world, yet its influence on the patterns and distribution of genetic diversity is poorly …

Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire,
thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances …

Intensification of fires and grazing by large herbivores has caused population declines in
small vertebrates in many ecosystems worldwide. Impacts are rarely direct, and usually …

We describe the “landscape trap” concept, whereby entire landscapes are shifted into, and
then maintained (trapped) in, a highly compromised structural and functional state as the …

Context Changes in abundance following fire are commonly reported for vertebrate species,
but the mechanisms causing these changes are rarely tested. Currently, many species of …

Rapid environmental change is placing increasing pressure on the survival of many species
globally. Ecological refuges can mitigate the impacts of change by facilitating the survival or …

Wildfire refugia (unburnt patches within large wildfires) are important for the persistence of
fire‐sensitive species across forested landscapes globally. A key challenge is to identify the …

Many forest species are adapted to long-interval, high-severity fires, but the intervals
between severe fires are decreasing with changes in climate, land use, and biological …

Feral cats are normally territorial in Australia's tropical savannahs and hunt intensively with
home-ranges only two to three kilometres across. Here we report that they also undertake …