Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Fauna
By L. J. Lyon, M. H. Huff, R. Hooper, E. S. Telfer, David S. Schreiner, J. Smith. 2012
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____________________________________ Smith, Jane Kapler, ed. 2000. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 1. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 83 p. Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals’ ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified, structure of the postfire environment. The extent of fire effects on animal communities generally depends on the extent of change in habitat structure and species composition caused by fire. Stand-replacement fires usually cause greater changes in the faunal communities of forests than in those of grasslands. Within forests, standreplacement fires usually alter the animal community more dramatically than understory fires. Animal species are adapted to survive the pattern of fire frequency, season, size, severity, and uniformity that characterized their habitat in presettlement times. When fire frequency increases or decreases substantially or fire severity changes from presettlement patterns, habitat for many animal species
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- Habitat Use and Selection by California Spotted Owls in a Postfire Landscape (2009, background): “…vegetation type for California spotted owls and are characterized by mixed-severity fire regimes, where complexes of lightly to severely burned patches at intermediate scales are common (Weatherspoon et al. 1992, Minnich et al. 1995, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources 1996, Tefler 2000).”
- Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soils and water (2005, background): “The impacts of fires on individual birds and populations in wetlands would then depend upon the season, uniformity, and severity of burning (Smith 2000).”
- Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex? (2012, background): “Growth of this cohort leads to canopy closure, arguably the most dramatic developmental episode in the life of a stand (Smith 2000; Franklin et al. 2002).”