Synthesis action, Firebird workshop

Under global environmental change, fire regimes and their impacts on biodiversity are changing around the world. Many bird species are highly sensitive to changes in vegetation after fire, and post-fire bird monitoring schemes help track these responses across different fire regimes and ecosystems and test the pyrodiversity hypothesis. The valuable existent schemes are usually small-scale and cover a few regions globally. Consequently, integrating all this data from diverse socioecological regions with varying pyrodiversity patterns will guide the implementation of integrated fire management, which supports ecological fire flows within ecological boundaries for the restoration of altered fire regimes. 

• Roadmap for the development of the FireBird network;
• Development of thematic objectives for global patterns of global post-fire biodiversity responses;
• Prioritisation of specific research objectives within the thematic objectives;
• Strengthened collaboration between CREAF, national, and international partners;
• Proposed a synthesis article on global patterns of bird responses to wildfire.