Holly Sitters

Mammal responses to spatial pattern in fire history depend on landscape context

Lauren Delaney, Julian Di Stefano, Holly Sitters

Journal article  |  2021  |  Landscape Ecology

Context: Interactions between multiple threats are driving biodiversity loss. In human-modified landscapes, the extent to which fi..

How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation

Don A Driscoll, Dolors Armenteras, Andrew F Bennett, Lluis Brotons, Michael F Clarke, Tim S Doherty, Angie Haslem, Luke T Kelly, Chloe F Sato, Holly Sitters, Nuria Aquilue, Kristian Bell, Maria Chadid, Andrea Duane, Maria C Meza-Elizalde, Katherine M Giljohann, Tania Marisol Gonzalez, Ravi Jambhekar, Juliana Lazzari, Alejandra Moran-Ordonez, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biological Reviews

Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects ..

Prescribed burn severity has minimal effect on common bird species in a fire-prone forest ecosystem

Diana Kuchinke, Julian Di Stefano, Holly Sitters, Richard Loyn, Peter Gell, Grant Palmer

Journal article  |  2020  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Prescribed burning is widely used to mitigate the effects of severe fires across the landscape and to maintain biodiversity. Just ..

Ground-dwelling mammal diversity responds positively to productivity and habitat heterogeneity in a fire-prone region

Matthew Swan, Fiona Christie, Erin Steel, Holly Sitters, Alan York, Julian Di Stefano

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecosphere

Environmental heterogeneity has a consistent, positive effect on species diversity globally, principally due to increased niche sp..

Integrating functional connectivity and fire management for better conservation outcomes

Holly Sitters, Julian Di Stefano

Journal article  |  2020  |  Conservation Biology

Globally, the mean abundance of terrestrial animals has fallen by 50% since 1970, and populations face ongoing threats associated ..

Habitat. use at fire edges: Does animal activity follow temporal patterns of habitat change?

Kate Parkins, Amy Scott, Julian Di Stefano, Matthew Swan, Holly Sitters, Alan York

Journal article  |  2019  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Combining optimization and simulation modelling to measure the cumulative impacts of prescribed fire and wildfire on vegetation species diversity

Matthew P Chick, Alan York, Holly Sitters, Julian Di Stefano, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Applied Ecology

Mammal functional diversity increases with vegetation structural complexity in two forest types

Hilman T Sukma, Julian Di Stefano, Matthew Swan, Holly Sitters

Journal article  |  2019  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Fire planning for multispecies conservation: Integrating growth stage and fire severity

Matthew Swan, Holly Sitters, Jane Cawson, Thomas Duff, Yoharmes Wibisono, Alan York

Journal article  |  2018  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Survey design for precise fire management conservation targets

Holly Sitters, Julian Di Stefano, Timothy Wills, Matthew Swan, Alan York

Journal article  |  2018  |  Ecological Applications