Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

GM Jones, MW Tingley - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a landscape.
Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post‐fire systems, suggest …

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 …

Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

M Ward, AIT Tulloch, JQ Radford, BA Williams… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Australia's 2019–2020 mega-fires were exacerbated by drought, anthropogenic
climate change and existing land-use management. Here, using a combination of remotely …

Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

DMJS Bowman, GLW Perry… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …

Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire

MW Tingley, V Ruiz-Gutiérrez… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An emerging hypothesis in fire ecology is that pyrodiversity increases species diversity. We
test whether pyrodiversity—defined as the standard deviation of fire severity—increases …

Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management

AN Andersen - Diversity and distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Fire is particularly frequent, complex and contentious in the vast tropical savannas of
northern Australia, where declines in many threatened species are associated with fire, and …

Effects of fire on pollinators and pollination

J Brown, A York, F Christie… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increased incidence of landscape fire and pollinator declines with co‐extinctions of
dependent plant species are both globally significant. Fire can alter species distributions, but …

Putting pyrodiversity to work for animal conservation

LT Kelly, L Brotons, MA McCarthy - Conservation Biology, 2017 - JSTOR
An influential concept in ecology commonly guides conservation decision makers:
Environmental heterogeneity drives biodiversity (Stein et al. 2014). In the context of fire …

Rural abandoned landscapes and bird assemblages: winners and losers in the rewilding of a marginal mountain area (NW Spain)

A Regos, J Domínguez, A Gil-Tena, L Brotons… - Regional Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
In many regions of Europe, large-scale socio-economic changes have led to the
abandonment of rural activities and a gradual takeover of natural vegetation. It is important …

Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? Optimising the distribution of people in cities to maximise species diversity

A Geschke, S James, AF Bennett… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of biodiversity in urban environments depends on species' responses to the
intensity of urban development.“Land sharing” and “land sparing” represent alternate ends …