Fig. 2: Maps comparing biodiversity distributions to fire severity including identified hotspots.
From: Exposure of western United States bird communities to predicted high severity fire
A Shows bivariate maps of biodiversity metrics by predicted fire severity, with higher values of biodiversity in darker values, low severity fire in yellow, and high severity fire in red. B Shows the hotspots for those metrics broken down by type, with “areas of concern” shown in red, “mixed” shown in yellow, and “refugia” shown in blue. Maps visualize species richness (column 1), local contributions to beta diversity (column 2), and functional richness (column 3). C Shows hotspot areas congruent across all three biodiversity metrics, also broken down by type. Hotspots are identified at the HUC12 watershed level. The light grey footprint indicates the forested study area extent. Basemaps were made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
