#13 | How fire affects predators, ft. Dr. Michael Cherry

We use fire to manage lands for specific species, but can this management technique also be used to alter the behavior of predators? Tune into today's episode as Dr. Marcus Lashley chats with Dr. Michael Cherry of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute and PhD student Marcelo Jorge of the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources as they discuss how fire can help decrease predator abundance on your land. 

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Resources: 

Epsiode Host: Dr. Marcus Lashley - @DrDisturbance

Guest: Marcelo Jorge - Website - UGA Deer Lab

 

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Want more information on some papers mentinoed in this episode?

Check out the studies below!

 

Predators and Fire:

Fire and land cover drive predator abundances in a pyric landscape

Influence of forest disturbance on bobcat resource selection in the central Appalachians

Winter roost selection of Lasiurine tree bats in a pyric landscape

Effects of mesopredators and prescribed fire on hispid cotton rat survival and cause-specific mortality

Prescribed fire and raccoon use of longleaf pine forests: implications for managing nest predation?

Space Use and Multi-Scale Habitat Selection of Adult Raccoons in Central Mississippi

 

Hardwood Removal and Predator Management:

Indirect predation management in a longleaf pine ecosystem: Hardwood removal and the spatial ecology of raccoons

 

Bats and Fire:

Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter

Winter roost selection of Lasiurine tree bats in a pyric landscape

Bat activity in relation to fire and fire surrogate treatments in southern pine stands

Response of Northern Bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to Prescribed Fires in Eastern Kentucky Forests

Male Seminole Bat Winter Roost-Site Selection in a Managed Forest