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Unless I am misunderstanding, this method assumes that all animals per hectare are non-mobile and do not run from fire. The impact from loss of habitat/starvati

• jcranmer 7y ago
  That is my understanding as well--the actual source states "affected" instead of "died." I have yet to see anyone actually give a reliable estimation of how to turn "affected" into "died", and I can sustain arguments for anything between 1% and 100%. There are essentially three pieces of information going into this estimate: pre-fire density, fire acreage, and fire mortality (in the long run). The first number is known at best to an order of magnitude, the second is quite well-known (thanks to satellites), and the last appears to be unknown.
• Polylactic_acid 7y ago
  That assumption is not totally insane these fires are often moving at around 60km/h. Also from the videos I have seen you can see huge pile ups of burned animal bodies stuck on fences.
• girvo 7y ago
  These fires catch people in cars. Running from them? You’re kidding I hope, or at least speaking from ignorance.