TY - JOUR AU - Wills, Allan J. AU - Liddelow, Graeme AU - Tunsell, Verna PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/29 TI - Wildfire and fire mosaic effects on bird species richness and community composition in south-western Australia JO - Fire Ecology SP - 5 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - A fire management strategy of deliberate patch-mosaic burning (PMB) is postulated to promote biodiversity by providing a range of habitat patches with different fire histories, habitat qualities, and vegetation ages at a given scale. We investigated the response of avian fauna to fire, particularly species richness and community composition, in a landscape composed of a diversity of vegetation ages including long-unburned refuges (age 26 years), compared with a landscape of uniform vegetation ages recovering from an extensive and intense fire. SN - 1933-9747 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0065-5 DO - 10.1186/s42408-019-0065-5 ID - Wills2020 ER -