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DOI | 10.1111/gcb.15834 |
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire | |
Dale G. Nimmo; Alexandra J. R. Carthey; Chris J. Jolly; Daniel T. Blumstein | |
2021-09-06 | |
发表期刊 | Global Change Biology |
出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Planet Earth is entering the age of megafire, pushing ecosystems to their limits and beyond. While fire causes mortality of animals across vast portions of the globe, scientists are only beginning to consider fire as an evolutionary force in animal ecology. Here, we generate a series of hypotheses regarding animal responses to fire by adopting insights from the predator–prey literature. Fire is a lethal threat; thus, there is likely strong selection for animals to recognize the olfactory, auditory, and visual cues of fire, and deploy fire avoidance behaviours that maximize survival probability. If fire defences are costly, it follows that intraspecific variation in fire avoidance behaviours should correspond with variation in fire behaviour and regimes. Species and populations inhabiting ecosystems that rarely experience fire may lack these traits, placing ‘fire naive’ populations and species at enhanced extinction risk as the distribution of fire extends into new ecosystem types. We outline a research agenda to understand behavioural responses to fire and to identify conservation interventions that could be used to overcome fire naivety. |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/337563 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dale G. Nimmo,Alexandra J. R. Carthey,Chris J. Jolly,et al. Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire[J]. Global Change Biology,2021. |
APA | Dale G. Nimmo,Alexandra J. R. Carthey,Chris J. Jolly,&Daniel T. Blumstein.(2021).Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire.Global Change Biology. |
MLA | Dale G. Nimmo,et al."Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire".Global Change Biology (2021). |
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