Figure 1From: Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USAWith disturbances such as fire, different species recover at different rates over time. Overall, generalists such as edge and open-site species will initially thrive with the disturbance and then decline. In contrast, specialists such as understory and old-growth species will do the opposite, taking a much longer time to recover to pre-fire population numbers.Back to article page