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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2019.01.046
	Are reptile responses to fire shaped by forest type and vegetation structure? Insights from the Mediterranean basin
	Chergui B.; Fahd S.; Santos X.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0378-1127
起始页码	340
结束页码	347
卷号	437
英文摘要	Socioeconomic factors (e.g. rural abandonment, monoculture plantations) and global warming are changing fire regimes (fire intensity, extent, and frequency) in fire-prone regions such as the Mediterranean Basin. Understanding the factors that shape responses of animal communities to fire is a key objective for biodiversity conservation. Given the substitution of native forests to pine plantations in many regions of the world, we studied whether forest type influences the responses to fire of reptile communities, in the African rim of the Western Mediterranean. Reptiles were sampled and vegetation structure measured in 2015 and 2016. We used generalized linear mixed models to examine the influence of fire, forest type (cork oak and pine), habitat structure and climate factors on two reptile-community metrics (abundance, species richness). Given possible differences in reptile detectability between unburnt and burnt transects, we used distance sampling models to estimate the density of the five commonest reptile species. The response of reptiles to fire varied between the two forest types: reptile abundance did not change with fire in cork oak forest, and increased with fire in pine plantation. Species richness was higher in cork oak forests, and increased from unburnt to burnt areas. Two out of five commonest lizards in the region, Acanthodactylus erythrurus and Podarcis vaucheri, responded positively to fire in pine plantation and remained similar in cork oak forest. Reptile communities were more similar between burnt and unburnt cork oak forests than between burnt and unburnt pine plantations, due to the reduced effect of fire on the former tree (a resprouter species) than on the latter (a seeder species). This work is the first field-based study examining the effects of fire on animal communities from north-western Africa. Overall, our results show that the response of reptiles to fire is shaped by forest type, and this conclusion has to be considered in fire-prone regions. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Cork oak forest; Distance sampling; Fire; Habitat structure; Mediterranean basin; Pine plantation; Reptile responses
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Animals; Biodiversity; Climate models; Conservation; Ecosystems; Fires; Global warming; Vegetation; Cork oak; Distance sampling; Habitat structures; Mediterranean basin; Pine plantations; Reptile responses; Forestry; abundance; biodiversity; deciduous forest; global warming; habitat structure; habitat type; monoculture; reptile; species richness; vegetation structure; Animals; Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecosystems; Fires; Plants; Mediterranean Sea; Acanthodactylus erythrurus; Animalia; Podarcis vaucheri; Quercus suber; Reptilia; Squamata
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/156136
作者单位	Equipe de Recherche Ecologie, Systématique, Conservation de la Biodiversité, Faculté des Sciences de Tétouan, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, BP 2121 El M'Hannech, Tétouan, Morocco; CIBIO/InBIO (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto), R. Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, 4485-661, Portugal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chergui B.,Fahd S.,Santos X.. Are reptile responses to fire shaped by forest type and vegetation structure? Insights from the Mediterranean basin[J],2019,437.
APA	Chergui B.,Fahd S.,&Santos X..(2019).Are reptile responses to fire shaped by forest type and vegetation structure? Insights from the Mediterranean basin.Forest Ecology and Management,437.
MLA	Chergui B.,et al."Are reptile responses to fire shaped by forest type and vegetation structure? Insights from the Mediterranean basin".Forest Ecology and Management 437(2019).