The disproportionate importance of long-unburned forests and woodlands for reptiles.

ABSTRACT: Our understanding of the impacts of time since fire on reptiles remains limited, partly because there are relatively few locations where long-term, spatially explicit fire histories are available. Such information is important given the large proportion of some landscapes that are managed with frequent prescribed fire to meet fuel management objectives. We conducted a space-for-time study across a landscape in southeastern Australia where the known fire history spanned 6 months to at least 96 years. Four methods were used to survey reptiles in 81 forest and woodland sites to investigate how time since fire (TSF), habitat, and environmental variables affect reptile richness, abundance, and composition. We used generalized linear models, generalized linear mixed-effects models, PERMANOVA, an

SUBMITTER: Dixon KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6262929 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature