The short-term effects of an extensive and high-intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia

By S. Legge, Stephen A. Murphy, J. Heathcote, E. Flaxman, J. Augusteyn, M. Crossman. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia (2015, background): “On a far briefer time scale, Legge et al. (2008) compared the abundance of mammal species in a range of areas burnt by a single high intensity late dry season fire (five weeks before sampling) with matched nearby unburnt areas, in a savanna woodland in the Kimberley, and found higher richness and a…”
REVIEW: Refuges for fauna in fire‐prone landscapes: their ecological function and importance (2013, background): “Species exhibit a continuum of levels of reliance on refuges for postfire persistence (e.g. Legge et al. 2008), and at least five patterns of refuge use can be recognized.”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “With variation across different regions, land uses, and environments in Australia, the current fire regime is now marked by fires that are too frequent and extensive (21, 84) or, in some places, of fires that are now too infrequent (85) for the retention of some components of biodiversity.”
Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas (2016, background): “This is a common pattern in other studies (Christensen 1980; Begg et al. 1981; Legge et al. 2008; Conner et al. 2011;Morris et al. 2011a), suggesting that the period immediately after fire is especially risky.”
The disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia: context, cause, and response (2011, background): “The strongest evidence demonstrates that many mammal species are detrimentally affected by contemporary fire regimes (Pardon et al. 2003; Woinarski et al. 2004b; Firth et al. 2006b; Legge et al. 2008; Firth et al. 2010; Woinarski et al. 2010).”
Effect of fire on small mammals: a systematic review (2014, background): “…gouldii (Woinarski et al. 2004) Planigale maculata (Legge et al. 2008) Pseudomys delicatulus (Kutt and Woinarski 2007) Pseudomys delicatulus (Legge et al. 2008) Pseudomys desertor (Kutt and Woinarski 2007) Pseudomys nanus (Legge et al. 2008) Rattus tunneyi (Legge et al. 2008) Rattus tunneyi…”
Rapid recovery of mammal fauna in the central Kimberley, northern Australia, following the removal of introduced herbivores. (2011, background): “These collectively (albeit somewhat noisily) suggest that most native mammal species respond negatively to fire, declining with increased fire frequency and after single extreme fire events (Woinarski et al. 2001, 2004, 2010; Pardon et al. 2003; Firth et al. 2006; Legge et al. 2008;).”
Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park (2015, unknown): “The effect of the spatial scale of fires on northern Australia’s rapidly declining numbers of smallmammals has not previously been quantified, although large fires have been implicated in some studies (Legge et al. 2008; Woinarski et al. 2011; Radford 2012).”
Savanna burning for biodiversity: Fire management for faunal conservation in Australian tropical savannas (2012, background): “One recent study sampled burnt and unburnt patches of otherwise comparable habitat, five weeks after an extensive fire in the central Kimberley (Legge et al. 2008), and reported that mammal abundance in unburnt areas was four times that in burnt areas, with particularly marked effects for the declin”
The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: Is history repeating? (2014, background): “Comparisons between burnt, grazed and unburnt plots in two other Australian tropical savanna regions have concluded that grazing amplifies the detrimental effect of fire on small mammals, and removal of cattle combined with reduction of fire frequency promotes mammal recovery (Kutt & Woinarski, 2007”