Incorporating pyrodiversity into wildlife habitat assessments for rapid post-fire management: A woodpecker case study

Spatial and temporal variation in fire characteristics – termed pyrodiversity – are increasingly recognized as important factors that structure wildlife communities in fire-prone ecosystems, yet there have been few attempts to incorporate pyrodiversity or post-fire habitat dynamics into predictive models of animal distributions and abundance to support post-fire management. We use the black-backed woodpecker – a species associated with burned forests – as a case study to demonstrate a pathway for incorporating pyrodiversity into wildlife habitat assessments for adaptive management. Employing monitoring data (2009–2019) from post-fire forests in California, we developed three competing occupancy models describing different hypotheses for habitat associations: (1) a static model representing an existing management tool, (2) a temporal model accounting for years since fire, and (3) a temporal-landscape model which additionally incorporates emerging evidence from field studies about the inf..., , This data package includes three components: (1) Text files of JAGS model code. (2) .csv files with input data to run models and conduct the analysis. (3) A README file with definitions of variables. Descriptions of code files:Run_StaticModel.txt. Specification of a Bayesian single-season occupancy model for black-backed woodepckers. This model corresponds to the \"static model\" in the main text. Run using R version 4.1.0 and JAGS version 4.3.0.Run_TemporalModel.txt. Specification of a Bayesian temporal auto-logistic occupancy model for black-backed woodepckers. This model corresponds to the \"temporal model\" in the main text. Run using R version 4.1.0 and JAGS version 4.3.0. Run_LandscapeTemporalModel.txt. Specification of a Bayesian temporal auto-logistic occupancy model for black-backed woodepckers. This model corresponds to the \"landscape temporal model\" in the main text. Run using R version 4.1.0 and JAGS version 4.3.0.火特征的时空变异——被称为火多样性（pyrodiversity）——日益被认为是调控火频发生态系统中野生动物群落结构的关键因素，然而目前极少有研究尝试将火多样性或火后生境动态纳入动物分布与种群多度的预测模型，以支撑火后管理工作。本研究以与火烧森林密切相关的黑背啄木鸟（black-backed woodpecker）为案例对象，展示了一条将火多样性纳入野生动物生境评估以开展适应性管理的可行路径。我们利用2009年至2019年加利福尼亚州火烧森林的监测数据，构建了三个描述生境关联假说的竞争型占用模型：（1）代表现有管理工具的静态模型；（2）考虑火灾后年限的时间模型；（3）时间-景观模型，此外还纳入了野外研究中关于inf..., ,的新兴证据。 本数据包包含三个组成部分： (1) JAGS模型代码文本文件； (2) 用于运行模型与开展分析的.csv格式输入数据文件； (3) 包含变量定义说明的README文件。 代码文件说明： Run_StaticModel.txt：针对黑背啄木鸟的贝叶斯单季占用模型规范，对应正文中的"静态模型"，需使用R 4.1.0版本与JAGS 4.3.0版本运行。 Run_TemporalModel.txt：针对黑背啄木鸟的贝叶斯时间自回归占用模型规范，对应正文中的"时间模型"，需使用R 4.1.0版本与JAGS 4.3.0版本运行。 Run_LandscapeTemporalModel.txt：针对黑背啄木鸟的贝叶斯时间-景观自回归占用模型规范，对应正文中的"景观时间模型"，需使用R 4.1.0版本与JAGS 4.3.0版本运行。