Burning for biodiversity or burning biodiversity? Prescribed burn vs. wildfire impacts on plants, lizards, and mammals

By Louise A. Pastro, Chris R. Dickman, Mike Letnic. 2011

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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): “There is relatively little evidence in this region, or indeed from the few studies elsewhere in Australia (Pastro et al. 2011), relating the responses of small mammals to pyrodiversity (the mosaic grain of patches of varying fire history), and the issue remains contested (Parr and Andersen 2006).”
Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park (2015, unknown): “In the Australian arid zone, small prescribed burns did not affect small-mammal diversity, but large wildfires caused amonotonic decline in both the a andb diversity of small mammals for several months after wildfire (Pastro et al. 2011).”