Kendi Davies and Brett Melbourne were awarded NSF RAPID funding to understand how habitat fragmentation and the Australian megafires combined to impact biodiversity. The fire provides a fleeting opportunity to understand how refugia contribute to persistence and recovery of biodiversity.
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Funnel-web spiders, notorious for their deadly bite, were not impacted by the Black Summer Fire, or by forest fragmentation.
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In November 2020, the first spring after the fire, a large team reset 376 permanent pitfall traps at Wog Wog and added 100 new traps to sample small refugia and areas of especially high, or low, burn intensity. In February 2021, the team reopened pitfall traps to collect the summer sample.
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