REVIEW: Refuges for fauna in fire‐prone landscapes: their ecological function and importance

By N. Robinson, S. Leonard, Euan G. Ritchie, Michelle Bassett, Evelyn K. Chia, S. Buckingham, H. Gibb, A. Bennett, M. Clarke. 2013

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

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The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire (2021, background): “Fire refugia are critical for the survival and persistence of many populations of fire-sensitive plants and animals within the fire perimeter [61].”
Responses of invasive predators and native prey to a prescribed forest fire (2017, background): “Patchy “pyrodiverse” burning is often thought to benefit biodiversity (Parr and Andersen 2006), and unburned patches within larger burns may provide ecological refuges for native fauna (Robinson et al. 2013).”
Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America (2016, background): “…that can provide an essential environment for species sensitive to fire, and support populations that contribute to the reassembly of biotic communities after fire (e.g., Camp et al. 1997, Franklin et al. 2000, Burton et al. 2008, Keppel et al. 2012, Robinson et al. 2013, Perera and Buse 2014).”
Revisiting the pyrodiversity–biodiversity hypothesis: long-term fire regimes and the structure of ant communities in a Neotropical savanna hotspot (2014, background): “Woody encroachment, resulting from fire suppression, often causes the local extinction of fire-adapted species (Andersen, Hertog & Woinarski 2006; Parr, Gray & Bond 2012), but at the same time may act as refuges for fire-sensitive species (Robinson et al. 2013).”
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks (2020, background): “…sources for regeneration of surrounding disturbed areas (Haire and McGarigal 2010), critical resources for wildlife during and after disturbances (Robinson et al. 2013), diverse forest structure and composition (Meigs and Krawchuk 2018), microclimatic buffering of sub- canopy climate (Davis et…”
Multiple threats, or multiplying the threats? Interactions between invasive predators and other ecological disturbances (2015, background): “…of vegetation through processes such as fire, grazing and land clearing can negatively impact fauna by removing food and shelter resources (Robinson et al., 2013), reducing habitat connectivity (Bar-Massada et al., 2014), increasing competition within and between species (Hagen et al.,…”