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Project ID: 04-2-1-94

Year: 2004

Date Started: 08/05/2004

Date Completed: 10/09/2007

Title: Effects of Fire Severity and Distance From Unburned Edge on Mammalian Community Post-Fire Recovery

Project Proposal Abstract: This study will rely on a substantial pre-fire database and original field studies to document patterns of reestablishment by mammal species and communities following the October-November, 2003, wildfires in San Diego County. These processes will be examined as functions of pre-fire fuel status, burn severity, and distance from fire perimeter in order to inform future fuel management decisions in this hotspot of biological diversity and fire-prone habitats. With extensive collaboration between federal agencies (USFS, USGS, BLM, Military) and University and NGO scientists, we will build on an extensive pre-fire database of mammal species distributions that has been collated for the San Diego County Mammal Atlas project. Using standard field sampling methods (live-trapping, Anabat recorders, track transects) we will resample mammal communities in burned and unburned plots where we have existing pre-burn mammal data on federal and nonfederal lands. We will also sample in areas of varying burn severity, different habitat types, and at varying distances inside the burn perimeter, to ascertain how pre-fire fuel conditions (e.g., as a result of previous fires or fuel treatments) and distance from unburned refugia affect patterns of reestablishment for various mammalian taxa. This information can help guide decisions on the size, location, and intensity of prescribed fires in various habitats so as to avoid conflicts with wildlife management goals in this biodiversity hotspot.

Principal Investigator: Jay Diffendorfer

Agency/Organization: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Branch or Dept: Illinois Natural History Survey

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Federal Cooperator	Jan L. Beyers	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside

Project Locations

Consortium

California

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	6467	Invited Paper/Presentation	Fire Effects on Chaparral-Associated Mammals: Responses to Fire Severity and Distance from Unburned Edge
	8865	Invited Paper/Presentation	Presentation--Fire Effects on Chaparral-Associated Mammals: Progress on a Multi-Year Study Following the Cedar Fire
	8864	Invited Paper/Presentation	Carnivore Community Response to a Large Wildfire in San Diego County, California
	6468	Invited Paper/Presentation	Fire Effects on Chaparral-Associated Mammals: Responses to Fire Severity and Distance from Unburned Edge
	6466	Invited Paper/Presentation	Paper--Fire Effects on Chaparral-Associated Mammals: Progress on a Multi-Year Study Following the Cedar Fire
	6464	Invited Paper/Presentation	Small Mammal Study Design-presentation to USFWS
	4426	Poster	Carnivore Community Response to a Large Wildfire in San Diego County, California
	6472	Progress Report
	6471	Progress Report

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