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 …

Conserving Australia's threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes

BA Hradsky - Wildlife Research, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Inappropriate fire regimes and predation by introduced species each pose a major threat to
Australia's native mammals. They also potentially interact, an issue that is likely to be …

Time since fire influences macropod occurrence in a fire‐prone coastal ecosystem

M Chard, CN Foster, DB Lindenmayer, GJ Cary… - Austral …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of animal responses to fire is fundamental to wildlife management in fire‐
prone ecosystems. Fire can influence the occurrence of large herbivores by altering the …

Relating mammal species richness to landscape patterns across multiple spatial scales

A Dorph, M Swan, J Di Stefano, TD Penman - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context Understanding the relationships between spatial pattern, spatial scale and
biodiversity can help ecologists to assess the impacts of environmental change and inform …

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 …

Multiple threats affecting the marsupials of Australasia: Impacts and management

TS Doherty, WL Geary, V Miritis… - American and Australasian …, 2023 - Springer
The marsupials of Australia and New Guinea are threatened with extinction by a range of
processes, including fire, invasive predators, unsustainable hunting, logging, agriculture …

[HTML][HTML] Immediate impacts of fire on koala movement in a fragmented landscape

D Bista, B Allen, G Baxter, R Booth… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hazard reduction burns could pose a significant conservation challenge to threatened
habitat specialists, such as koalas Phascolarctos cinereus. This study examines the …

Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA

AL Melcher, D Hagan, K Barrett, B Ross, J Lorber - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Fire seasonality is important for forest managers to consider when restoring
historical disturbance regimes and recovering native ecosystem structure and composition …

Post‐fire pickings: Large herbivores alter understory vegetation communities in a coastal eucalypt forest

M Chard, CN Foster, DB Lindenmayer… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire and herbivores alter vegetation structure and function. Future fire activity is predicted to
increase, and quantifying changes in vegetation communities arising from post‐fire …

Cross‐cultural collaboration leads to greater understanding of the rare Spectacled Hare‐wallaby in the west Kimberley, Western Australia

ML Wysong, P Gregory, AWT Watson… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cross‐cultural collaboration between Yawuru Country Managers (Rangers) and WWF‐
Australia ecologists led to new detections of the Spectacled Hare‐wallaby …