“…As well as causing greater immediate impacts on species, these extensive, severe or rapidly spreading fires tend to leave fewer unburnt refuges within the fire footprint (Collins et al., 2021), constraining population recovery by both in‐situ reproduction and recolonization from elsewhere (Banks et al., 2017). Key resources, including habitat structures (e.g., large tree hollows, leaf litter, deep pools, submerged woody habitat) as well as food, can be rare for many years after such fires (Gresswell, 1999; Haslem et al., 2011; Jones et al., 2021). Therefore, megafires can cause large, sudden, and enduring changes in population size for affected species that need to be recognized swiftly by legislative and policy review to ensure that investment, management, and research activities are prioritized to reduce extinction risk.…”