Effects of Fire on Fauna

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Excerpt from Effects of Fire on Fauna: A State-of-Knowledge ReviewIn preparing a state-of - knowledge review for fire and fauna, our basic reference source was the chapter Effects of Fire on Birds and Mammals, by J. F. Bendell (1974) in the book Fire and Ecosystems. In addition to summarizing this 52-page paper, we added material covering invertebrates and stream fauna and attempted to recognize additional references published since 1974. In total, the material presented here summarizes about 450 citations.One of the major problems in attempting any generalization about the effects of fire on fauna is the variation in fires: intensity, duration, frequency, location, shape, extent, season, fuels, sites, soils, and prescribed fires as compared to wildfire. Few studies are quantitative, have adequate controls, and have been carried on long enough to really assess effects on fauna. Another complicating factor is that much of the information about fire effects on fauna actually reports plant community modification by fire and the consequent influence on food, cover, and habitat used by various faunal species.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.