Journal
ANIMAL CONSERVATION
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 499-507Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00542.x
Keywords
fire; conservation; birds; refuge; mallee; biological legacies
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- Land and Water Australia, Department for Environment and Heritage (SA)
- Parks Victoria
- Department of Sustainability and Environment (Vic.)
- Mallee Catchment Management Authority (Vic.)
- NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW)
- Lower Murray-Darling Catchment Management Authority (NSW)
- Natural Heritage Trust
- Birds Australia
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy
- Murray Mallee Partnership
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Predicting the response of faunal communities to fire presents a challenge for land managers worldwide because the post-fire responses of species may vary between locations and fire events. Post-fire recovery can occur via nucleated recovery from in situ surviving populations or by colonization from ex situ populations. Fine-scale spatial patterns in the patchiness of fires and the proximity of burnt sites to source populations may contribute to both the variability in post-fire responses and the processes by which populations recover. We examined the avifauna at recently burnt sites within extensive semi-arid shrublands of south-eastern Australia, including 72 sites ?27 years since fire) and varied in the presence or absence of small (25900?m2) unburnt patches of vegetation. For sites
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