Fire and Avian Ecology

Clarke Lab

For the most recent publications, please see Mike Clarke's Google Scholar page.

    • Verdon, S. J., Watson, S. J., & Clarke, M. F. (2019). Modeling variability in the fire response of an endangered bird to improve fire-management. Ecological Applications, 29(8), 14 pages. doi:10.1002/eap.1980
    • Connell, J., Watson, S. J., Taylor, R. S., Avitabile, S. C., Schedvin, N., Schneider, K., & Clarke, M. F. (2019). Future fire scenarios: Predicting the effect of fire management strategies on the trajectory of high-quality habitat for threatened species. Biological Conservation 232, 131-141. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.02.004
    • Nimmo DG, Avitabile S, Banks SC, Bliege Bird R, Callister K, Clarke MF, Bennett, AF (2018) Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes. Biological Reviews. doi:10.1111/brv.12486
    • Morgan J, Wright J, Whelan J, Clarke M, Coulson G, Lunt I, Shannon J (2018) What does it take to do successful adaptive management? A case study highlighting Coastal Grassy Woodland restoration at Yanakie Isthmus. Ecological Management & Restoration, 19(2), 111-123. doi:10.1111/emr.12309
    • Flanagan-Moodie AK, Holland GJ, Clarke MF, Bennett AF (2018) Prescribed burning reduces the abundance of den sites for a hollow-using mammal in a dry forest ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management, 429, 233-243. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.07.023
    • Giljohann, K. M., Kelly, L. T., Connell, J., Clarke, M. F., Clarke, R. H., Regan, T. J., & McCarthy, M. A. (n.d.). Assessing the sensitivity of biodiversity indices used to inform fire management. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13006
    • Kenny, S. A., Bennett, A. F., Clarke, M. F., & Morgan, J. W. (2018). Time-since-fire and climate interact to affect the structural recovery of an Australian semi-arid plant community. Austral Ecology, 14 pages. doi:10.1111/aec.12582
    • Connell, J., Watson, S. J., Taylor, R. S., Avitabile, S. C., Clarke, R. H., Bennett, A. F., & Clarke, M. F. (2017). Testing the effects of a century of fires: Requirements for post-fire succession predict the distribution of threatened bird species. Diversity and Distributions, 23(9), 1078-1089. doi:10.1111/ddi.12597
    • Holland, G. J., Clarke, M. F., & Bennett, A. F. (2017). Prescribed burning consumes key forest structural components: implications for landscape heterogeneity. Ecological Applications, 27(3), 845-858. doi:10.1002/eap.1488
    • O'Loughlin, T., O'Loughlin, L. S., & Clarke, M. F. (2017). No short-term change in avian assemblage following removal of Yellow-throated Miner ( Manorina flavigula ) colonies. Ecological Management & Restoration, 18(1), 83-87. doi:10.1111/emr.12244
    • Bassett, M., Leonard, S. W., Chia, E. K., Clarke, M. F., & Bennett, A. F. (2017). Interacting effects of fire severity, time since fire and topography on vegetation structure after wildfire. Forest Ecology and Management, 396, 26-34. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.04.006
    • Kelly, L. T., Haslem, A., Holland, G. J., Leonard, S. W. J., MacHunter, J., Bassett, M., . . . York, A. (2017). Fire regimes and environmental gradients shape vertebrate and plant distributions in temperate eucalypt forests. Ecosphere, 8(4), e01781. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1781