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DOI | 10.1111/gcb.15977 |
Fire management alters the thermal landscape and provides multi-scale thermal options for a terrestrial turtle facing a changing climate | |
Ellen P. Robertson; Evan P. Tanner; R. Dwayne Elmore; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf; Jonathan D. Mays; Jennifer Knutson; John R. Weir; Scott R. Loss | |
2021-11-17 | |
发表期刊 | Global Change Biology
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出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | As effects of climate change intensify, there is a growing need to understand the thermal properties of landscapes and their influence on wildlife. A key thermal property of landscapes is vegetation structure and composition. Management approaches can alter vegetation and consequently the thermal landscape, potentially resulting in underappreciated consequences for wildlife thermoregulation. Consideration of spatial scale can clarify how management overlaid onto existing vegetation patterns affects thermal properties of landscapes relevant to wildlife. We examined effects of temperature, fire management, and vegetation structure on multi-scale habitat selection of an ectothermic vertebrate (the turtle Terrapene carolina triunguis) in the Great Plains of the central United States by linking time-since-fire data from 18 experimental burn plots to turtle telemetry locations and thermal and vegetation height data. Within three 60-ha experimental landscapes, each containing six 10-ha sub-blocks that are periodically burned, we found that turtles select time-since-fire gradients differently depending on maximum daily ambient temperature. At moderate temperatures, turtles selected sub-blocks with recent (<1 year) time-since-fire, but during relatively hot and cool conditions, they selected sub-blocks with later (2–3 year) time-since-fire that provided thermal buffering compared with recently burned sub-blocks. Within 10-ha sub-blocks, turtles selected locations with taller vegetation during warmer conditions that provided thermal buffering. Thermal performance curves revealed that turtle activity declined as temperatures exceeded ~24–29°C, and on “heat days” (≥29°C) 73% of turtles were inactive compared with 37% on non-heat days, emphasizing that thermal extremes may lead to opportunity costs (i.e., foregone benefits turtles could otherwise accrue if active). Our results indicate that management approaches that promote a mosaic of vegetation heights, like spatiotemporally dynamic fire, can provide thermal refuges at multiple spatial scales and thus be an actionable way to provide wildlife with multiple thermal options in the context of ongoing and future climate change. |
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/342050 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ellen P. Robertson,Evan P. Tanner,R. Dwayne Elmore,et al. Fire management alters the thermal landscape and provides multi-scale thermal options for a terrestrial turtle facing a changing climate[J]. Global Change Biology,2021. |
APA | Ellen P. Robertson.,Evan P. Tanner.,R. Dwayne Elmore.,Samuel D. Fuhlendorf.,Jonathan D. Mays.,...&Scott R. Loss.(2021).Fire management alters the thermal landscape and provides multi-scale thermal options for a terrestrial turtle facing a changing climate.Global Change Biology. |
MLA | Ellen P. Robertson,et al."Fire management alters the thermal landscape and provides multi-scale thermal options for a terrestrial turtle facing a changing climate".Global Change Biology (2021). |
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