The lab is awarded RAPID NSF funding

 

Kendi Davies and Brett Melbourne were awarded NSF RAPID funding to quantify how megafires affected species on forest fragments. The fire provides a fleeting opportunity to quantify the location, size and quality of refugia relative to habitat islands and to set up new monitoring sites within refugia to understand how they contribute to persistence and recovery, particularly of the 1000+ species of beetles.

Australian Black Summer megafires burn through the Wog Wog habitat fragmentation experiment, 2020.

Satellite imagery of the fires burning through the Wog Wog forest fragments experiment (Image: Sentinel-2). The black squares are forest fragments within a pine plantation matrix (bottom squares) and controls within continuous forest (top squares).

 
Kendi Davies