Research Project
Researchers: Dale Nimmo (Principal investigator, Investigation, Principal or Chief Investigator) , Emma Spencer (Principal investigator, Investigation, Principal or Chief Investigator) , Grant Linley (Principal investigator, Investigation, Principal or Chief Investigator)
Full description Camera trap data package from the Wildlife Observatory of Australia's Wildlife Camera Database. Dataset ID: NSW-VIC_Upper_Murray_fire_landscapes_Linley_2021-22_WildObsID_0009. 1. Climate change is altering fire regimes globally, leading to an increased incidence of large and severe wildfires, including gigafires (>100,000 ha), that homogenise landscapes. Despite this, our understanding of how large, severe wildfires affect biodiversity at the landscape scale remains limited. 2. We investigated the impact of a gigafire that occurred during the unprecedented 2019–20 Australian ‘Black Summer’ on terrestrial fauna. We selected 24 study landscapes, each 0.7854 km2 in size, that represented a gradient in the extent of high severity fire, unburnt vegetation, and the diversity of fire severity classes (‘pyrodiversity’). We used wildlife cameras to survey biodiversity across each landscape, and quantified species activity, community and functional diversity, and predator-prey network metrics. W
