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The effects of wildfire severity and pyrodiversity on bat occupancy and diversity in fire-suppressed forests.
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- Pyrodiversity and Phylodiversity: Insights on Post-Fire Forest Communities.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Influence of Burn Severity on Avifaunal Communities in Southern Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest, Western Ghats.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Divergent responses of native predators to severe wildfire and biological invasion are mediated by life history.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- SeasFire cube - a multivariate dataset for global wildfire modeling.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Frequent, heterogenous fire supports a forest owl assemblage.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
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- Small mammal responses to fire severity mediated by vegetation characteristics and species traits.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
- Do We Need to Use Bats as Bioindicators?Biology · 2021Article
- Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Water and elevation are more important than burn severity in predicting bat activity at multiple scales in a post-wildfire landscape.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Wildfire is an important ecological process that influences species' occurrence and biodiversity generally. Its effect on bats is understudied, creating challenges for habitat management and species conservation as threats to the taxa worsen globally and within fire-prone ecosystems. We conducted acoustic surveys of wildfire areas during 2014-2017 in conifer forests of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. We tested effects of burn severity and its variation, or pyrodiversity, on occupancy and diversity for the 17-species bat community while accounting for imperfect detection. Occupancy rates increased with severity for at least 6 species and with pyrodiversity for at least 3. Two other species responded negatively to pyrodiversity. Individual species models predicted maximum occupancy rates across burn severity levels but only one species occurred most often in undisturbed areas. Species richness increased from approximately 8 species in unburned forests to 11 in pyrodiverse areas with moderate- to high-severity. Greater accessibility of foraging habitats, as well as increased habitat heterogeneity may explain positive responses to wildfire. Many bat species appear well adapted to wildfire, while a century of fire suppression and forest densification likely reduced habitat quality for the community generally. Relative to other taxa, bats may be somewhat resilient to increases in fire severity and size; trends which are expected to continue with accelerating climate change.
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