The Influence of Fire and Other Environmental Factors on Terrestrial Gastropod Species Composition in an Oak-Hickory Woodland of West-Central Illinois

Brand, Mary E.; Rechkemmer, Will T.; Clark, Stephanie A.; McCravy, Kenneth W.; Lydeard, Charles; Meiers, Susan T.; Jenkins, Sean E.

doi:10.4003/006.038.0102

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“…Increased sensitivity: Nonvolant species of relatively low vagility, including amphibians, snakes, small lizards with short limbs (slow-running animals), and slow-moving animals such as sloths, turtles, and molluscs in general [13,57,[63][64][65]; larger arboreal animals that are expected to attach less well to surfaces and have more difficulty distributing loads uniformly across large contact areas [66]; ground-dwelling species that fail to climb trees [7,11]; smaller jumpers with reduced effective jump height [67,68]; weak flyers with shorter wings and smaller flight muscles that usually can only fly a short distance at lower strata of vegetation on the flame zone [69,70].…”

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In Case of Fire, Escape or Die: A Trait-Based Approach for Identifying Animal Species Threatened by Fire

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et al. 2023

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Recent studies have argued that changes in fire regimes in the 21st century are posing a major threat to global biodiversity. In this scenario, incorporating species’ physiological, ecological, and evolutionary traits with their local fire exposure might facilitate accurate identification of species most at risk from fire. Here, we developed a framework for identifying the animal species most vulnerable to extinction from fire-induced stress in the Brazilian savanna. The proposed framework addresses vulnerability from two components: (1) exposure, which refers to the frequency, extent, and magnitude to which a system or species experiences fire, and (2) sensitivity, which reflects how much species are affected by fire. Sensitivity is based on biological, physiological, and behavioral traits that can influence animals’ mortality “during” and “after” fire. We generated a Fire Vulnerability Index (FVI) that can be used to group species into four categories, ranging from extremely vulnerable (highly sensible species in highly exposed areas), to least vulnerable (low-sensitivity species in less exposed areas). We highlight the urgent need to broaden fire vulnerability assessment methods and introduce a new approach considering biological traits that contribute significantly to a species’ sensitivity alongside regional/local fire exposure.

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In Case of Fire, Escape or Die: A Trait-Based Approach for Identifying Animal Species Threatened by Fire

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Cascading response of flora and terrestrial mollusks to last deglacial warming

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Jiang

et al. 2020

Global Ecology and Conservation

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Macroscale effects of the Monument Fire on suitable habitat of the Trinity bristle snail in the Greater Trinity Basin, Klamath Bioregion, northern California

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2022

California Fish and Wildlife Journal

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I evaluated the impact and extent of the Monument Fire on the geographic range and suitable macrohabitat of the Trinity bristle snail (Monadenia setosa), a California endemic with limited distribution in northern California. Total area burned by the fire was ~87,984 ha or 46.0% of the species range (n = 191,156 ha). Total area of suitable macrohabitat for the species is ~107,913 ha of which 44.5% (n = 47,962 ha) was encompassed by the fire. Results show that the total area of forest cover-type vegetation and individual forest stand attributes impacted by the fire was not significantly different from areas within the species range not burned by the fire. There was no significant proportional differences in the six sequential categories of suitable macrohabitat burned by the fire (i.e., Low, Low-moderate, Moderate, Moderate-high, High, Critical suitability). The percentage of Moderate and Moderate-high suitable macrohabitat burned was only somewhat greater than predicted by the pre-fire species habitat suitability model (HSM). Many individual watersheds were encompassed by the fire and the resulting mosaic of burned watersheds was highly variable. Application of the Soil Burn Severity (SBS) map identified 8,293 ha (17.3%) of Unburned or very low burned soil, 24,191 ha (50.5%) of Low burned soil, 13,998 ha (29.2.1%) of Moderately burned soil, and 1,460 ha (3.0%) of Highly burned soil within the boundaries of the Monument Fire. When applied to categories of suitable macrohabitat, I calculated that 31,096 ha (100%) of Low to Low-moderate and 13,998 ha (96.1%) of Moderate to Moderate-high suitable macrohabitat were burned. High and Critical areas of macrohabitat suitability were much less impacted by high SBS (n = 1,461 ha [58.0%] because these regions were small in size, highly fragmented, widely dispersed across the landscape, and separated by major topographic and riverine discontinuities.

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The Influence of Fire and Other Environmental Factors on Terrestrial Gastropod Species Composition in an Oak-Hickory Woodland of West-Central Illinois

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

In Case of Fire, Escape or Die: A Trait-Based Approach for Identifying Animal Species Threatened by Fire

In Case of Fire, Escape or Die: A Trait-Based Approach for Identifying Animal Species Threatened by Fire

Cascading response of flora and terrestrial mollusks to last deglacial warming

Macroscale effects of the Monument Fire on suitable habitat of the Trinity bristle snail in the Greater Trinity Basin, Klamath Bioregion, northern California

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