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 …

[HTML][HTML] A fresh look at an old concept: home-range estimation in a tidy world

J Signer, JR Fieberg - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
A rich set of statistical techniques has been developed over the last several decades to
estimate the spatial extent of animal home ranges from telemetry data, and new methods to …

Age‐dependent habitat relationships of a burned forest specialist emphasise the role of pyrodiversity in fire management

AN Stillman, RB Siegel, RL Wilkerson… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in fire characteristics, termed pyrodiversity, plays an important role in structuring
post‐fire communities, but little is known about the importance of pyrodiversity for individual …

Positive effects of fire on birds may appear only under narrow combinations of fire severity and time-since-fire

RL Hutto, DA Patterson - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
We conducted bird surveys in 10 of the first 11 years following a mixed-severity fire in a dry,
low-elevation mixed-conifer forest in western Montana, United States. By defining fire in …

Nest site selection and nest survival of Black-backed Woodpeckers after wildfire

AN Stillman, RB Siegel, RL Wilkerson, M Johnson… - The Condor, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recently burned coniferous forests host wildlife communities that respond to variation in
burn severity, post-fire habitat structure, and patch configuration. Habitat selection theory …

A roadmap for pyrodiversity science

ZL Steel, JED Miller, LC Ponisio… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the
importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across …

Correlates of home range sizes of giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis

MA Knüsel, DE Lee, B König, ML Bond - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Abiotic, biotic and human influences are factors that can affect animal home ranges. We
calculated home range sizes of adult giraffes in the Tarangire-Manyara region of northern …

Burned forest characterization at single-tree level with airborne laser scanning for assessing wildlife habitat

Á Casas, M García, RB Siegel, A Koltunov… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abundance, size, and spatial distribution of standing dead trees (snags), are key indicators
of forest biodiversity and ecosystem health. These metrics represent critical habitat …

Cross‐scale occupancy dynamics of a postfire specialist in response to variation across a fire regime

MW Tingley, AN Stillman, RL Wilkerson… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fire creates challenges and opportunities for wildlife through rapid destruction, modification
and creation of habitat. Fire has spatially variable effects on landscapes; however, for …