Attraction, avoidance or indifference: How fauna respond to edges in fire-prone landscapes

We know quite a lot about how animals respond to edges in modified and fragmented landscapes, but what do they do in natural systems when edges are created by fire? Are some animals attracted to burnt edges? Or is it safer to avoid them completely? Edges are ubiquitous, highly influential environmental features. They are ecologically important because they influence a wide range of patterns and processes that affect the distribution and movement of many species. However, we currently know very little about fire as an agent of edge creation, how fire edges change spatially and temporally, or how fauna respond to these landscape features. This study was conducted in mixed eucalypt forests in …