Fire is a fundamental process in savannas and is widely used for management. It creates variation in disturbance regimes, which is a natural phenomenon critical for maintaining ecological processes that sustains native biodiversity. Being a key disturbance that drives community dynamics and ecosystem function, resource managers have increasingly relied on fire as a management tool to conserve and manage biodiversity in fire-prone systems; however, key gaps remain in our understanding of how fire severity and return intervals drives habitat selection and species persistence in savanna ecosystems. Our lab is interested in understanding how fire-created variability could affect nest site selection, spatial distribution and population demography of galliformes and ground hornbill in the Sudan Savanna zone of Nigeria. Our goal is to equip wildlife managers with  tools relevant for creating habitat features that increase native biodiversity in fire-dependent ecosystems.