New research out from a large study of faunal responses to megafires in California

New research out from a large study of faunal responses to megafires in California shows that bat communities were highly robust to fire, including high intensity burns, with very few species showing any response to variation in fire presence or burn intensity.  We believe the extremely high mobility of this group may allow them to continue to persist and utilize even severely burned habitats.

Citation

Haley E Mirts, John P McLaughlin, Theodore J Weller, Angela M White, Hillary S Young, Rahel Sollmann, Bats in the megafire: assessing species’ site use in a postfire landscape in the Sierra Nevada, Journal of Mammalogy, 2021;, gyab129, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab129