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Fish and Wildlife Habitat
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Rising temperatures may disrupt reproduction before becoming lethal; thus mating traits could define species vulnerability to warming.
Wildfires drive multi-year water quality degradation over the western United States
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Wildfires can dramatically alter water quality, resulting in severe implications for human and freshwater systems. However, regional-scale assessments of these impacts are often limited by data scarcity. Here, we unify observations from 1984–2021 in 245 burned watersheds across the western United States, comparing post-fire signals to baseline levels from 293 unburned basins.
Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Changing fire regimes have important implications for biodiversity and challenge traditional conservation approaches that rely on historical conditions as proxies for ecological integrity. This historical-centric approach becomes increasingly tenuous under climate change, necessitating direct tests of environmental impacts on biodiversity.
A Systematic Review of Trends and Methodologies in Research on the Effects of Wildfires on the Avifauna in Temperate Forests
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Perceptions of the relationships between forest ecosystems and wildfires have evolved. The ecological role of wildfires is now recognised as essential for maintaining the functionality of fire-adapted forests. Although research on the impact of fire on fauna has grown notably, there is a lack of consensus on its global effects due to the variable responses of faunal communities across taxa.
Rapid Declines in Southern Sierra Nevada Fisher Habitat Driven by Drought and Wildfire
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Aim: Forest disturbances are a natural ecological process, but climate and land-use change are altering disturbance regimes at an unprecedented rate, posing significant threats to biological communities and the species of concern.
Frequent, heterogenous fire supports a forest owl assemblage
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Fire shapes biodiversity in many forested ecosystems, but historical management practices and anthropogenic climate change have led to larger, more severe fires that threaten many animal species where such disturbances do not occur naturally.
Changing fire regimes and nuanced impacts on a critically imperiled species
Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type
Wildfire activity throughout western North America is increasing which can have important consequences for species persistence. Native species have evolved disturbance-adapted traits that confer resilience to natural disturbance provided disturbances operate within their historical range of variability.
Accelerated forest restoration may benefit spotted owls through landscape complementation
Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type
Animals often rely on the presence of multiple, spatially segregated cover types to satisfy their ecological needs; the juxtaposition of these cover types is called landscape complementation.
Hazardous wildfire smoke events can alter dawn soundscapes in dry forests of central and eastern Washington, United States
Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type
As global wildfire activity increases, wildlife are facing greater exposure to hazardous smoke pollution – with unknown consequences for biodiversity. Research on the effects of smoke on wild animals is extremely limited, in part due to the inherent logistical challenges of observing how animals respond to smoke in real time.
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