Bushfires pushing species to extinction

Climate change is increasing the frequency, severity and extent of bushfires across southern Australia (and in many other parts of the world). Along with Tim Doherty and Rob Davis, Emma Burgess (who has recently graduated form our lab with her PhD) and Martine Maron recently coauthored a story for The Conversation illustrating some of the most recent impacts of bushfires and how the increasing severity is interacting with landscape change to threaten plant and animal species. The paper complements a recent paper by Maron on how increasing climate variability will increase resource bottlenecks for a large range of species globally – see the abstract here and contact m.maron@uq.edu.au if you’d like a reprint.