PREDICTING INVERTEBRATE VULNERABILITY
inverTraits:
How vulnerable are Australian invertebrates to fire?
We’re developing a traits database and vulnerability assessment framework to better understand fire susceptibility in Australian invertebrates. The Australian Research Data Commons’ (ARDC) Bushfire Data Challenges program aims to improve Australia’s bushfire resilience, response and recovery. We have been funded by the ARDC, in partnership with AusTraits, the Atlas of Living Australia, EcoCommons, and other agencies, to deliver a program under the ARDC’s Curated Biodiversity Data for Rapid Assessment of Bushfire Impacts Project with three main objectives:
A national, populated and publishable trait database to enable analysis of fire-susceptibility of, and post-fire management needs for, Australian invertebrate species, including worked analyses using the traits framework to illustrate usage in assessing susceptibility and the identification of key knowledge gaps.
Publication of models and workflows on EcoCommons
Databases and workflows enabling interspecies interactions to be used in fire susceptibility assessments.
For more information on this program, see the ARDC’s Bushfire Data Challenges Projects website and as always, feel free to contact us at contact@invertsau.org
The Critically Endangered Kangaroo Island Assassin Spider (Zephyrarchaea austini) had all of its known range burnt by high severity fire in 2019-2020. This image of it, with its spider prey, is the only live photo of the species.
Image credit: Jess Marsh
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