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From: Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USA

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With 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.

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