Fire creates habitats for many animals but changes in fire activity threaten species worldwide. While conservation assessments routinely identify fire as a threat to lizards and snakes, the processes underlying fire-driven population declines have received less attention. Assessing the effects of fire on demographic processes – survival, reproduction and movement – provides a means to identify mechanisms of population declines and forecast population changes. Here, we synthesize how inappropriate fire regimes contribute to declines of animal populations, using threatened Australian squamates as a case study.

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了解“蜥蜴之地”火灾导致的爬行动物数量下降的人口统计框架

火灾为许多动物创造了栖息地，但火灾活动的变化威胁着全世界的物种。虽然保护评估通常将火灾确定为对蜥蜴和蛇的威胁，但火灾导致的人口下降的过程受到的关注较少。评估火灾对人口过程的影响——生存、繁殖和迁移——提供了一种识别人口下降机制和预测人口变化的方法。在这里，我们以受威胁的澳大利亚有鳞动物为案例研究，综合了不适当的火灾制度如何导致动物种群减少。