Pyrodiversity Promotes Avian Diversity in Semi-Arid Forests: Research Brief

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Pyrodiversity Promotes Avian Diversity in Semi-Arid Forests: Research Brief

Overall, the results of this study add support to the existing theory that diverse fire increases biodiversity in certain ecosystems. Specifically, this study showed that higher diversity of fire severity patterns within a fire lead to more bird diversity, especially in the fire prone semi-arid forests of the Sierra Nevada.

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Photo: Nine years after the Moonlight fire in Plumas county, California, the landscape shows remarkable resilience with a diversity of habitat structure and birds. Photo courtesy Morgan Tingley.

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Convergent Evolution for Differing Mediterranean Type Ecosystems Biomes: Research Brief

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Convergent Evolution for Differing Mediterranean Type Ecosystems Biomes: Research Brief

Five different Mediterranean Type Ecosystems (MTEs) around the world have evolutionarily converged in function with analogous vegetation types. With gorgeous photographic samplers to illustrate each type, we learn why these fire-adapted systems host more biodiversity than every other terrestrial ecosystem outside of the wet tropics.

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