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Forest fire invertebrate impact study

Deer mice that do not survive capture are catalogued to be available to future researchers. The critters are an initial group of what researchers call “colonizers” after a fire sweeps through. Lanier described them as “movers and shakers” right away. By the time a forest community is 20 to 30 years old, the way some of the acres burned in 1989 are today, deer mice have been replaced with red-backed voles. “They come back in right away but they don’t seem to be successful right away,” said Hayley Lanier, a University of Oklahoma biology professor. “They’re not immediately moving in and taking over where they were dominant before.”

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Deer mice that do not survive capture are catalogued to be available to future researchers. The critters are an initial group of what researchers call “colonizers” after a fire sweeps through. Lanier described them as “movers and shakers” right away. By the time a forest community is 20 to 30 years old, the way some of the acres burned in 1989 are today, deer mice have been replaced with red-backed voles. “They come back in right away but they don’t seem to be successful right away,” said Hayley Lanier, a University of Oklahoma biology professor. “They’re not immediately moving in and taking over where they were dominant before.”