| Titre : | Bird population responses to wildfire and planned burns in foothill forests of Victoria, Australia (2015) |
| Auteurs : | Richard H. Loyn, Auteur ; Edward G. McNabb, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Journal of Ornithology (156(1) 2015/03/14) |
| Article en page(s) : | 263-273 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | Fires and people have helped shape forest ecosystems. Planned burns can be used to reduce social or ecological risks from wildfires, but we need a better understanding of the ecological effects of planned burns and wildfire over various temporal and spatial scales. Here, two approaches were used to answer various questions about responses of diurnal birds to fire regimes in mixed eucalypt forests in the foothills of Victoria, Australia: what are the effects of planned burns (at two different frequencies and seasons) when applied systematically over many years, and what are the short-term effects of severe wildfire? A long-term experiment examined planned burns in two seasons and at two frequencies on 25 sites in Wombat State Forest in 1984. An opportunistic study compared bird abundance in 33 burnt and 33 unburnt sites in the year after an extensive severe wildfire in Bunyip State Park in 2009. Brief reference is also made to a retrospective study, which provided a longer-term perspective by examining bird abundances at 113 sites in eastern Victoria that had been subject to different regimes over the past 40+ years, addressing questions about the impacts of different fire frequencies and times since fire. This paper considers data from snapshot surveys in 2009–2012. Data from Wombat State Forest showed significant effects of fire treatments for just four of the 27 species analysed (p |
| En ligne : | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-015-1228-z |



