Journal article
Fly and wasp diversity responds to elements of both the visible and invisible fire mosaic
J Brown, A York
International Journal of Wildland Fire | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1071/WF16189
Abstract
It is increasingly recognised that fire management for biodiversity conservation must account for two kinds of landscape mosaics: 1) the 'visible' mosaic of post-fire age classes as it relates to organism responses to the most recent fire events; and 2) the 'invisible' mosaic of inter-fire intervals, frequencies and other components of the fire regime as they relate to the cumulative effects of multiple fires. Patch mosaic burning (PMB) aims to create landscape mosaics of fire ages to cater for the needs of a diversity of species differing in their age class preferences, but empirical studies often fail to detect a link between species richness and the visible mosaic. Empirical studies of cu..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and the Albert Shimmin Fund for funding. We would like to thank Mal Brown, Julio Najera and John Loschiavo for assistance with data collection, and Fiona Christie for comments on an early draft. Flies were identified by the Australian Museum and wasps were identified by Graham Brown (consultant insect taxonomist).