Fig. 4

Example of landscape features that influence Mexican spotted owl site occupancy on the Gila National Forest, New Mexico. The large map shows fire perimeters from 1984 to 2021 in gray shading with black outlines. In places where multiple fires overlap, the gray shading becomes lighter; sites that experience higher fire frequencies have higher predicted site occupancy. The inset map shows a sampling unit (white square) that experienced larger amounts of high-severity fire; sites with more high-severity fire experience lower rates of persistence