Recent catastrophic fires in Australia, the Amazon and the USA, along with insights from climate science, indicate the frequency of large-scale wildfires has increased, and will continue to increase, globally. Fire is a major global conservation challenge, particularly in ecosystems where fire has historically been rare or absent for long periods (e.g. rainforests), but also increasingly in landscapes where fire is more frequent. Although changed fire regimes have long been recognised as a threat to many Australian birds, in most national parks and reserves in Australia an information board or brochure reassures visitors not to be disturbed by the blackened landscapes they see, as our wildlife has evolved to cope with fire. However, as fires become larger, more frequent and more severe, there is no room for complacency and wishful thinking as we consider the magnitude of the challenge posed to birdlife by changing fire regimes. Impacts of a fire regime extend beyond that of just the loss of resources due to themost recent fire. Whether or not a species will find the resources necessary to persist in a landscape after fire will depend on at least five key attributes of the fire regime:

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我们的鸟会没事的，它们已经进化到可以对付火了……不是吗？

最近在澳大利亚、亚马逊和美国发生的灾难性火灾以及气候科学的见解表明，全球范围内大规模野火的频率已经增加，并将继续增加。火灾是一项重大的全球保护挑战，特别是在历史上很少发生火灾或长期不发生火灾的生态系统中（例如热带雨林），而且在火灾频繁发生的景观中也越来越多。尽管长期以来人们都认为火势变化对许多澳大利亚鸟类构成威胁，但在澳大利亚的大多数国家公园和保护区，信息板或小册子向游客保证不要被他们看到的变黑景观所打扰，因为我们的野生动物已经进化到可以应对火。然而，随着火灾变得更大、更频繁、更严重，当我们考虑改变火势对鸟类构成的挑战的严重程度时，没有自满和一厢情愿的余地。火灾状况的影响不仅仅是由于最近的火灾造成的资源损失。一个物种是否会在火灾后找到在景观中生存所需的资源将取决于火灾状况的至少五个关键属性：