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Understanding nest site selection is critical to developing effective conservation management actions. The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is one of many endemic species extensively impacted by Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 megafires. Over a period of 5 months, an estimated 43% of the entire range of this slow-breeding species was burnt, with the biggest impact on the central subspecies M. n. novaehollandiae (55%). Four months prior to these megafires, we conducted a field stu...

Fire suppression activities are causing future blazes to burn at higher severity and under more hostile conditions — worsening the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. Although suppression efforts minimize the overall area burned, they virtually eliminate the possibility for low- and moderate-intensity fires, according to the study, published on Monday in Nature…

As wildfires across the U.S. West become increasingly severe, scientists are aiming to unravel the ways such large-scale blazes are impacting the survival of species and their habitats — for better and for worse. About 100 species surveyed in California’s Sierra Nevada, southern Cascades and Klamath regions are experiencing high severity conditions over more than…

Tree hollows are an important landscape resource used by fauna for shelter, nesting, and predator avoidance. In fire-prone landscapes, wildfire and climate may impact hollow dynamics; however, assessments of their concurrent impacts are rare. We conducted a field survey at 80 sites in the Sydney Basin bioregion (Australia) to understand how fire frequency, fire severity, mean annual temperature, and mean annual precipitation concurrently impacted the site-density of small- (<5 cm entry>wid...

In the spring and summer of 2019–2020, the ‘Black Summer’ bushfires burned more than 97 000 km2 of predominantly Eucalyptus dominated forest habitat in eastern Australia. The Black Summer bushfires prompted great concern that many species had been imperilled by the fires. Here, we investigate the effects that fire severity had on the habitat and abundance of a cool climate lizard Eulamprus tympanum that was identified as a species of concern because 37% of its habitat was burnt in the Blac...

The iconic Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) is a critically endangered Australian conifer and one of the world’s rarest trees with only 46 mature individuals remaining in the wild. The species is regarded as a “living fossil” and was discovered on the brink of extinction following a natural historical decline. While its discovery has enabled crucial intervention for its long-term conservation, it has also created novel threats. Wollemia nobilis is facing extinction in the wild due to its hi...

Fire events in south-eastern Australia are increasing in frequency and severity resulting from climate change. The existing fire adaptation research for Australian flora has focussed on fire adapted lineages. However, it important to understand the dynamics of fire vulnerable species and the mechanisms by which they persist fire prone environments. Mistletoes are an example of a fire vulnerable species that lacks the ability to resprout or reseed, relying on recolonisation following fire. This t...

Bushfire occurrences will likely be exacerbated by climate change, thus requiring a model to forecast and manage their impacts. However, a robust bushfire model requires new proxies that can infer fire severity responses to past climate variability. A key test to the viability of new fire proxies is whether they record fire severity in the affected soil. We address this by testing Attenuated Total Reflectance- Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and boron (B) isotopes in soil clay...