A warming climate with an increase in tree density in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests caused by less frequent low-severity fires leads to wildfires of increased severity and sizes in the western United States. An increase in large, severe wildfires can have differing effects on wildlife. This study used acoustic detectors to study how bats responded to different fire severities three years after the Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona. We looked at the amount of echolocation calls as an index of bat activity, and we used GIS derived variables to see if burn severity at multiple scales predicted bat activity.
This work is published in PLoS ONE. See my publications.
This work is published in PLoS ONE. See my publications.