Integrating sensory ecology and predator‐prey theory to understand animal responses to fire

Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?

(2022) Chelsea A. Ortiz-Jimenez et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

(2022) Michela Mariani et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Animal mortality during fire

(2022) Chris J. Jolly et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas

(2022) Rasoul Khosravi et al.   Fire Ecology

Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions

(2022) Tim S. Doherty et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

(2022) Hugh D. Safford et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fear generalization and behavioral responses to multiple dangers

(2022) Andrew Sih et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Quantifying the impacts of bushfire on populations of wild koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ): Insights from the 2019/20 fire season

(2021) Stephen Phillips et al.   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Fire-driven behavioral response to smoke in a Mediterranean lizard

(2021) Lola Álvarez-Ruiz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?

(2021) Mitchell A. Cowan et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire

(2021) Dale G. Nimmo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Megafires and thick smoke portend big problems for migratory birds

(2021) Cory T. Overton et al.   ECOLOGY

A review of the effects of wildfire smoke on the health and behavior of wildlife

(2021) O V Sanderfoot et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Site fidelity and behavioral plasticity regulate an ungulate’s response to extreme disturbance

(2021) Samantha E.S. Kreling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data

(2021) Sarah R. Supp et al.   Movement Ecology

Enhancing the ecological realism of evolutionary mismatch theory

(2021) Lea Pollack et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires’ devastating aftermath

(2020) Dyani Lewis   NATURE

Traffic-related particulate matter affects behavior, inflammation, and neural integrity in a developmental rodent model

(2020) Benjamin C. Nephew et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Animals as Agents in Fire Regimes

(2020) Claire N. Foster et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda

(2020) J. Kevin Hiers et al.   Fire Ecology

Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

(2020) Gustaf Hugelius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators

(2020) Andrea Anton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

(2020) Michelle Ward et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Coping with danger and deception: lessons from signal detection theory

(2020) Øistein Haugsten Holen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The context dependence of non‐consumptive predator effects

(2020) Aaron J. Wirsing et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

From Pleistocene to Pyrocene: fire replaces ice

(2020) S. J. Pyne   Earths Future

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2020) Luke T. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

The Neurobiology of Fear Generalization

(2019) Arun Asok et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The intrepid urban coyote: a comparison of bold and exploratory behavior in coyotes from urban and rural environments

(2019) Stewart W. Breck et al.   Scientific Reports

Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

(2019) Sean M. Ehlman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Cognitive Control of Escape Behaviour

(2019) Dominic A. Evans et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

(2019) Tianhua He et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Counter-Culture: Does Social Learning Help or Hinder Adaptive Response to Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change?

(2019) Brendan Barrett et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The Cognitive Ecology of Stimulus Ambiguity: A Predator–Prey Perspective

(2019) Brian C. Leavell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How contemporary bioclimatic and human controls change global fire regimes

(2019) Douglas I. Kelley et al.   Nature Climate Change

An ecological framework of neophobia: from cells to organisms to populations

(2019) Adam L. Crane et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Predator responses to fire: A global systematic review and meta‐analysis

(2019) William L. Geary et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Wildfire Detection Using Sound Spectrum Analysis Based on the Internet of Things

(2019) Shuo Zhang et al.   SENSORS

Challenges of Learning to Escape Evolutionary Traps

(2019) Alison L. Greggor et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

A wake-up call for sleepy lizards: the olfactory-driven response of Tiliqua rugosa (Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria) to smoke and its implications for fire avoidance behavior

(2019) Robert W. Mendyk et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Born to Run? Quantifying the Balance of Prior Bias and New Information in Prey Escape Decisions

(2018) Nicholas M. Sutton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Food supply fluctuations constrain group sizes of kangaroos and in turn shape their vigilance and feeding strategies

(2018) François-René Favreau et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Border wall: bad for biodiversity

(2018) Norma Fowler et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Animal responses to natural disturbance and climate extremes: a review

(2018) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Importance of internal refuges and the external unburnt area in the recovery of rodent populations after wildfire

(2018) Roger Puig-Gironès et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire-disturbed landscapes induce phenotypic plasticity in lizard locomotor performance

(2018) K. H. Wild et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Can bats sense smoke during deep torpor?

(2018) Anna C. Doty et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Predicting Predator Recognition in a Changing World

(2018) Alexandra J.R. Carthey et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Social Information Links Individual Behavior to Population and Community Dynamics

(2018) Michael A. Gil et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Interacting and non-linear avian responses to mixed-severity wildfire and time since fire

(2018) Paul J. Taillie et al.   Ecosphere

Disaster preparedness for better response: Logistics perspectives

(2018) Rubel Das   International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Collective animal migration

(2018) Iain D. Couzin   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Generalized fire response strategies in plants and animals

(2018) Juli G. Pausas   OIKOS

Temporal structuring of vigilance behaviour by female Thomson's gazelles with hidden fawns

(2018) Blair R. Costelloe et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes

(2018) Dale G. Nimmo et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Conserved behavioral circuits govern high-speed decision-making in wild fish shoals

(2018) Andrew M. Hein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Restoring historical fire regimes increases activity of endangered bats

(2018) Elizabeth C. Braun de Torrez et al.   Fire Ecology

A new cue for torpor induction: charcoal, ash and smoke

(2017) Clare Stawski et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Patterns of predator neophobia: a meta-analytic review

(2017) Adam L. Crane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting behavioural responses to novel organisms: state-dependent detection theory

(2017) Pete C. Trimmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The erroneous signals of detection theory

(2017) Pete C. Trimmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differential Effects of Fire on Small Mammal Communities in the Busanga Flood Plain, Zambia

(2017) Ngawo Namukonde et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Pyric-carnivory: Raptor use of prescribed fires

(2017) Torre J. Hovick et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Interspecies co-use of southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) burrows

(2017) Elizabeth Thornett et al.   AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY

Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

(2017) Briana Abrahms et al.   Movement Ecology

Novel predators emit novel cues: a mechanism for prey naivety towards alien predators

(2017) Alexandra J. R. Carthey et al.   Scientific Reports

Territorial aggression reduces vigilance but increases aggression towards predators in a cooperatively breeding fish

(2016) Sybille Hess et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Complex mammal species responses to fire in a native tropical savannah invaded by non-native grader grass (Themeda quadrivalvis)

(2016) Rickard Abom et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Comparative approaches to escape

(2016) Martin Y Peek et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Local predation risk shapes spatial and foraging neophobia patterns in Trinidadian guppies

(2016) Chris K. Elvidge et al.   Current Zoology

Cautious Crows: Neophobia in Torresian Crows (Corvus orru) Compared with Three Other Corvoids in Suburban Australia

(2016) Matthew J. Brown et al.   ETHOLOGY

Effects of the fire regime on mammal occurrence after wildfire: Site effects vs landscape context in fire-prone forests

(2016) Evelyn K. Chia et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Can hibernators sense and evade fires? Olfactory acuity and locomotor performance during deep torpor

(2016) Julia Nowack et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Dispersal: a central and independent trait in life history

(2016) Dries Bonte et al.   OIKOS

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Habitat preference for fire scars by feral cats in Cape York Peninsula, Australia

(2016) Hugh W. McGregor et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Local predation risk shapes spatial and foraging neophobia patterns in Trinidadian guppies

(2016) Chris K. Elvidge et al.   Current Zoology

Can hibernators sense and evade fires? Olfactory acuity and locomotor performance during deep torpor

(2016) Julia Nowack et al.   Science of Nature

Short-term responses of reptile assemblages to fire in native and weedy tropical savannah

(2016) Rickard Abom et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats

(2016) Hugh W. McGregor et al.   Scientific Reports

The influence of relationships on neophobia and exploration in wolves and dogs

(2015) Lucia Moretti et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Functional relationships reveal keystone effects of the gopher tortoise on vertebrate diversity in a longleaf pine savanna

(2015) Christopher P. Catano et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Fear Generalization and Anxiety: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms

(2015) Joseph E. Dunsmoor et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Categories, concepts, and conditioning: how humans generalize fear

(2015) Joseph E. Dunsmoor et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

How Nature-Based Tourism Might Increase Prey Vulnerability to Predators

(2015) Benjamin Geffroy et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USA

(2015) Elizabeth F. van Mantgem et al.   Fire Ecology

Concept of an Active Amplification Mechanism in the Infrared Organ of Pyrophilous Melanophila Beetles

(2015) Erik S. Schneider et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The Sensory Ecology of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects

(2014) Marc Weissburg et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Naïveté in novel ecological interactions: lessons from theory and experimental evidence

(2014) Alexandra J. R. Carthey et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: from mechanisms to consequences

(2014) Robert D. Magrath et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals

(2014) Virginie M. Stevens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems

(2014) C. J. Torney et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Does Fire Influence the Landscape-Scale Distribution of an Invasive Mesopredator?

(2014) Catherine J. Payne et al.   PLoS One

Prospecting and dispersal: their eco-evolutionary dynamics and implications for population patterns

(2014) M. M. Delgado et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Collective Learning and Optimal Consensus Decisions in Social Animal Groups

(2014) Albert B. Kao et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Background level of risk determines the intensity of predator neophobia in juvenile convict cichlids

(2013) Grant E. Brown et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Costs of Conspecifics: Are Social Distractions or Environmental Distractions More Salient?

(2013) Jennifer Yee et al.   ETHOLOGY

Hot fire, cool soil

(2013) Cathelijne R. Stoof et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

REVIEW: Refuges for fauna in fire-prone landscapes: their ecological function and importance

(2013) Natasha M. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting novel herbivore-plant interactions

(2013) Ian S. Pearse et al.   OIKOS

Both information and social cohesion determine collective decisions in animal groups

(2013) N. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological novelty and the emergence of evolutionary traps

(2013) Bruce A. Robertson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Multisensory perception in uncertain environments

(2012) Nicole E. Munoz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Maternal inheritance and exploratory-boldness behavioural syndrome in zebrafish

(2012) Brian D. Wisenden et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: a behavioural ecology perspective

(2012) A. Sih et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cell-specific oxidative stress and cytotoxicity after wildfire coarse particulate matter instillation into mouse lung

(2012) Keisha M. Williams et al.   TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY

Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution

(2012) Max Wolf et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Changing organisms in rapidly changing anthropogenic landscapes: the significance of the ‘Umwelt’-concept and functional habitat for animal conservation

(2011) Hans Van Dyck   Evolutionary Applications

The Effects of Wildfire on Mortality and Resources for an Arboreal Marsupial: Resilience to Fire Events but Susceptibility to Fire Regime Change

(2011) Sam C. Banks et al.   PLoS One

Interspecific variation in fear responses predicts urbanization in birds

(2010) A. P. Moller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific ecomorphological variation: linear and geometric morphometrics reveal habitat-related patterns within Podarcis bocagei wall lizards

(2010) A. KALIONTZOPOULOU et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Reptile and Amphibian Responses to Large-Scale Wildfires in Southern California

(2010) Carlton J. Rochester et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Predator-prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions

(2010) Andrew Sih et al.   OIKOS

Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

(2010) D. Reale et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Moonlight avoidance in gerbils reveals a sophisticated interplay among time allocation, vigilance and state-dependent foraging

(2010) B. P. Kotler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Personality traits and dispersal tendency in the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

(2010) J. Cote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Survival behaviour of swamp wallabies during prescribed burning and wildfire

(2010) Nathan Garvey et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

First-Order Fire Effects on Animals: Review and Recommendations

(2010) R. Todd Engstrom   Fire Ecology

Brief communication: Reaction to fire by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: Conceptualization of “fire behavior” and the case for a chimpanzee model

(2009) Jill D. Pruetz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Quantity versus quality: how does level of predation threat affect Cape ground squirrel vigilance?

(2009) C.E. Unck et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Spatial Neophilia and Spatial Neophobia in Resident and Migratory Warblers (Sylvia)

(2009) Claudia Mettke-Hofmann et al.   ETHOLOGY

Speed–accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptive Dispersal Strategies and the Dynamics of a Range Expansion

(2008) Renée A. Duckworth   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems

(2008) P. C Trimmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES