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Table 2 Mixed modelling results for the effects of minimum and maximum time since fire (TSF), climate, and fire type on feral cat and red fox responses to fire in Australia. Values represent posterior means, and 95% credible intervals (CI) are provided in parentheses. Bold text indicates terms where the CIs do not include zero. Neutral responses were used as the reference category for the response variable and ‘arid’ and ‘mixed’ were used as the reference category for the climate and fire type predictor variables, thus there are no values to display here

From: Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire

Species

Predictor

Level

Positive

Negative

Cat

Min TSF

–

-0.05 (-0.11, -0.00)

-0.06 (-0.20, 0.04)

Max TSF

–

-0.02 (-0.06, 0.02)

-0.09 (-0.23, -0.00)

Climate

Temperate (vs. Arid)

0.49 (-4.20, 5.97)

3.91 (-3.56, 12.84)

 

Tropical (vs. Arid)

4.54 (0.22, 11.44)

4.17 (-4.00, 12.51)

Fire type

Wildfire (vs. Planned)

0.25 (-3.56, 4.78)

0.49 (-6.16, 7.60)

Fox

Min TSF

–

-0.07 (-0.14, -0.02)

-0.03 (-0.08, 0.02)

Max TSF

–

-0.05 (-0.09, -0.02)

-0.03 (-0.07, -0.00)

Climate

Temperate (vs. Arid)

1.44 (-1.50, 5.07)

6.82 (-0.56, 18.78)

Fire type

Planned (vs. Mixed)

3.22 (0.94, 5.85)

-1.64 (-15.17, 8.63)

 

Wildfire (vs. Mixed)

1.20 (-1.35, 3.94)

6.55 (1.35, 15.68)