{"id":28,"date":"2018-07-09T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/?p=28"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:27:25","slug":"effects-of-fire-on-reptiles-and-amphibians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/2018\/07\/09\/effects-of-fire-on-reptiles-and-amphibians\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Fire on Reptiles and Amphibians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper just came out from Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chowey.net\">Chris Howey<\/a>&#8216;s lab. The work focuses on how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Controlled_burn\">prescribed fires<\/a> (in many cases, necessary to maintain healthy ecosystems) affect the reptiles and amphibians living within those landscapes. Prescribed fires are man-made burns that are used as a tool to manage forests. These burns can negatively and positively impact animals living within the environment. The authors found that fire has more predictable effects on reptiles. Reptile abundance post-fire reflected habitat requirements by different species, and how those respective habitats were made more\/less available. Amphibians, with their more aquatic lifestyles, may be more strongly affected by annual weather patterns. Read the entire paper, published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/c\/1XHit1L~GwGchW\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\" wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2018\/07\/Green-Treefrog-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2018\/07\/Green-Treefrog-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2018\/07\/Green-Treefrog-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2018\/07\/Green-Treefrog-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2018\/07\/Green-Treefrog.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Treefrog sitting on a scorched log following a prescribed fire.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper just came out from Dr. Chris Howey&#8216;s lab. The work focuses on how prescribed fires (in many cases, necessary to maintain healthy ecosystems) affect the reptiles and amphibians living within those landscapes. Prescribed fires are man-made burns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/2018\/07\/09\/effects-of-fire-on-reptiles-and-amphibians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants-and-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}