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Forest fire invertebrate impact study

Dr. Scott Seville, right, and University of Oklahoma masters student Elyse Ellsworth catalogue small rodents captured at the study plot in August 2018. Seville is an expert on forest ecosystems, something he described as usually resembling a “mosaic” of different ages. “You get fires, but they tend to be limited in size so you end up with this nice diverse landscape of different age forests.” But leading up to the 1988 fires, he said, forest fires were more controlled. “We protected them, and pretty soon we had lots of aged forests. In the 1988 fire, there was extended drought and a lot of old growth forest so you got a catastrophic fire that kind of reset the clock, but it reset the clock over very large landscapes.”

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Dr. Scott Seville, right, and University of Oklahoma masters student Elyse Ellsworth catalogue small rodents captured at the study plot in August 2018. Seville is an expert on forest ecosystems, something he described as usually resembling a “mosaic” of different ages. “You get fires, but they tend to be limited in size so you end up with this nice diverse landscape of different age forests.” But leading up to the 1988 fires, he said, forest fires were more controlled. “We protected them, and pretty soon we had lots of aged forests. In the 1988 fire, there was extended drought and a lot of old growth forest so you got a catastrophic fire that kind of reset the clock, but it reset the clock over very large landscapes.”