TY - CHAP T1 - Small mammals and grassland fires T2 - Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies Y1 - 1990 A1 - D.W. Kaufman A1 - Finck, E.J. A1 - Kaufman, G.A. ED - Scott. L. Collins ED - Wallace, L.L. KW - fire AB -

For study of fire effects, the general null hypothesis is that fire will have no impact on the population density of individual animal species. Any species that fails to change numerically due to fire would be classified as a fire-neutral species. Alternatively, a population that could exhibit either a positive or negative numerical response to fire. Such species we classify as fire-positive or fire-negative species, respectively. Most early work on animals and fire was aimed at describing these general population responses. However, understanding the structure and function of grasslands demands that we know patterns of population changes from prefire through a multiyear, post-fire period, rather than simply ascertaining whether species are fire- positve, fire-negative, or fire-neutral over a short postfire period

JF - Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies PB - University of Okalahoma Press CY - Norman, OK ER -