How does fire maintain pollinator biodiversity and community resistance and health?
In forests across the western U.S., the interaction between land management and climate change is leading to increasingly large proportions of high-severity fire, where >75% of trees are killed. As high-severity patch size and density increases within larger wildfires, so does the isolation of such areas with increasing distance from areas experiencing lower burn severity. The implications of increasing the wildfire disturbance severity and size for community assembly are poorly understood, particularly for keystone groups like insect pollinators that are critical for the maintenance of biodiversity.
In collaboration with NCASI we are surveying the 2020 Oregon and N California fires.
In collaboration with NCASI we are surveying the 2020 Oregon and N California fires.
