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Fire regimes and vegetation structure and composition form a direct feedback loop, where fire regimes shape patterns in the vegetation and vegetation affects fire regime attributes. For decades, researchers focused their attention on the essential relationships between fire and vegetation; however, there is a vast gap in our knowledge about the more mobile inhabitants of these habitats. What about the wildlife that depend on these plants for food and shelter? Plants and animals are also part of a feedback loop, with the actions of animals affecting vegetation structure and composition, and the vegetation structure and composition influencing animal occupancy, survival, and reproductive rates. Animals have evolved with their habitat and with the fire regime of that habitat. Yet, we know very little about the influence of fire on wildlife use patterns, survival, or reproductive success immediately following fire or throughout post-fire succession.
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- burn mosaics
- fire regimes
- fire-wildlife interactions
- nesting habitat
- wildland fire
- wildlife
- wildlife communities