The influence of fire on populations of small mammals of the Kruger National Park.

Abstract

Control treatment had a high, stable small mammal density, biomass and diversity; annual burning treatment had a low diversity and was dominated by Tatera leucogaster; triennial burning treatments showed a cycle of species composition from domination by T. leucogaster following burning, through domination by other rodent species to domination by Crocidura hirta at the end of the cycle. The distributions and movements of the small mammals can be explained in terms of cover and litter preferences.-from Author