Smith Lab PhD student Rhiannon Bird, just published her honours research, showing that fire in rainforest margins reduced mammal diversity and caused variation in how rainforest-associated species used their habitat. Fire in surrounding eucalypt forest was also associated with reduced movement of a generalist species, the bush rat, Rattus fuscipes.
Modified habitat use and behaviour could be detected up to 15 months post-fire, highlighting the ongoing impacts of fire in rainforest margins.