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Fire Ecology

Table 1 Summary of animal responses to fire keyed to the literature within our three hypothesized functional categories.

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

 

Literature

Endogenous regeneration

Shelter in refugia

Recolonization

Arthropods

    

Subterranean

    

Scorpions and solifugids

1

XXX

  

Ground-dwelling

    

Spiders

2

XXX

  

Ticks

3

XXX

  

Ants

4, 5, 6, 7

XXX

  

Arboreal or aerial

    

Walking sticks

8

XXX

  

Yucca moths

9, 10, 11

XXX

  

Fire beetles

12

  

XXX

Pollinators, parasites, and biting flies

13, 14, 15, 16

XXX

 

XXX

Hermes copper

17, 18, 19

XXX

 

XXX

Drosophila

20

XXX

 

XXX

Other aerial insects

21, 22

XXX

 

XXX

Reptiles and amphibians

    

Terrestrial

23–35

 

XXX

 

Amphibians

36–39

 

XXX

XXX

Birds

40–59

  

XXX

Small mammals

3, 25, 60–69

 

XXX

XXX

Large mammals

70–77

  

XXX

  1. 1 = Brown et al. 2010
  2. 2 = Underwood and Quinn 2010
  3. 3 = Padgett et al. 2009
  4. 4 = Matsuda et al. 2011
  5. 5 = Suarez et al. 1998
  6. 6 = Bolger et al. 2000
  7. 7 = Lazaro-Gonzalez et al. 2013
  8. 8 = Sandoval 2000
  9. 9 = D. Udovic, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, personal communication
  10. 10 = D. Udovic D. Bronstein, and M. Barnes; Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, unpublished data
  11. 11 = D. Udovic and J. Bronstein, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, unpublished data
  12. 12 = Hart 1998
  13. 13 = Force 1981
  14. 14 = Force 1982
  15. 15 = Force 1990
  16. 16 = Potts et al. 2003
  17. 17 = Marschalek and Deutschman 2008
  18. 18 = Marschalek and Klein 2010
  19. 19 = Strahm et al. 2012
  20. 20 = Moore et al. 1979
  21. 21 = Keeley et al. 2005a, b
  22. 22 = Pryke and Samways 2012
  23. 23 = Kahn 1960
  24. 24 = Rochester et al. 2010b
  25. 25 = Lillywhite 1977
  26. 26 = Thompson et al. 2013
  27. 27 = Driscoll et al. 2012
  28. 28 = McDonald et al. 2012
  29. 29 = Valentine et al. 2012
  30. 30 = Elzer et al. 2013
  31. 31 = Nimmo et al. 2013
  32. 32 = Smith et al. 2013
  33. 33 = Smith et al. 2014
  34. 34 = Santos and Cheylan 2013
  35. 35 = Couturier et al. 2014
  36. 36 = Stromberg 1997
  37. 37 = Gamradt and Kats 1997
  38. 38 = Kerby and Kats 1998
  39. 39 = Richmond et al. 2013
  40. 40 = Beyers and Wirtz II 1995
  41. 41 = Akçakaya and Atwood 1997
  42. 42 = Atwood et al. 2002
  43. 43 = Chase et al. 2000
  44. 44 = Soule et al. 1988
  45. 45 = Preston and Kamada 2012
  46. 46 = Mendelsohn et al. 2008
  47. 47 = Wirtz II 1979
  48. 48 = Stanton 1986
  49. 49 = Morearty et al. 1985
  50. 50 = Soule 1991
  51. 51 = Blair 1996
  52. 52 = Sauvajot et al. 1998
  53. 53 = Blair 2001a, b
  54. 54 = Mitrovich and Hamilton 2007
  55. 55 = Preston and Kamada 2012
  56. 56 = Watson et al. 2012
  57. 57 = Taylor et al. 2012
  58. 58 = Robinson et al. 2014
  59. 59 = Sitters et al. 2014
  60. 60 = Quinn 1979
  61. 61 = Quinn 1990
  62. 62 = Price and Waser 1984
  63. 63 = Magle et al. 2012
  64. 64 = Brehme et al. 2011
  65. 65 = Diffendorfer et al. 2012
  66. 66 = Borchert and Borchert 2013
  67. 67 = Schwilk and Keeley 1998
  68. 68 = Rochester et al. 2010a
  69. 69 = Fellers et al. 2004
  70. 70 = Gibbens and Schultz 1963
  71. 71 = Keeley and Fotheringham 2001
  72. 72 = Bleich et al. 2008
  73. 73 = Holl et al. 2012
  74. 74 = Turschak et al. 2010
  75. 75 = Schuette et al. 2014
  76. 76 = Crooks and Soule 1999
  77. 77 = Fedriani et al. 2001
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