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Fire and logging reduce homes for threatened mammals – Phys.org
Fire and logging are substantially reducing the number of hollow-bearing trees that threatened and critically endangered Australian mammals can use as homes, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) warns.
Fire and logging are substantially reducing the number of hollow-bearing trees that threatened and critically endangered Australian mammals can use as homes, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) warns.
The findings come as the number of Australian mammals which live and nest in tree hollows is also declining.
The study used information from 158 sites collected at regular intervals since 1997.
It found a direct relationship between the number of hollow-bearing trees in a…
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